| Show PUBLICITY mrs anguita 0 nack convicted of complicity with martin thorn in the murder of william guldensupp Gulden sup re pe and sentenced to but fifteen years imprisonment in sing sing has announced her intention of applying for a pardon in the same new york paper making the he announcement is recorded the discovery in the E east ast river of portions of the body of a man mutilated in a similar manner to that of quid guld in october 1807 a double shooting caused by jealousy was committed in ogden oden when will edson lay in wait for lillie ott and a young nun man named mccabe shooting them both seriously miss ott oil only rallying by what ni was as considered a miracle As a matter of fact the recovery was only temporary ar As aa she died last friday but three weeks after her marriage to frank S ln of salt lake edson was sentenced to ten tea years years in the penitentiary shortly after the commission of tho the crime and already his friends were working for ilia his pardon with favorable prospects of success when the news of the death of his victim put at least it a temporary quietus upon them ile he will receive no additional punishment in any event as even if his conviction of attempted mur der would not prove a bar the fact that his victim med lived for a year and a day after afier the shooting would act as an aa estoppel according 0 to o the code on saturday last john douglass dou labb worked himself into a jealous rage and went from ogden to hunte iluigi ville for the express purpose of killing hii wife ile he had no thought of mercy in his heart and would probably also have killed her father had bad he been given an opportunity connecting theto chefe particular crimes and comparing them with others other of the same class with which the daily papers teem two deductions present themselves they are that extended publicity and executive clemency are largely responsible for their commission the Gulden murder mystery is pc Fe arcely solved than another gimilaro horror itself the murderer had no doubt gloated over every line lice of the published record of the Gulden murder and when his turn came to slay a man he fol followed the same method of di posing of the body carefully avoiding those portions of the plan which led to the discovery of thorn and nack edson had bad no doubt read of summary vengeance bance being dealt out by discarded and jealous lovers and he went out to kill with numerous precedents before his eyes if the crime appeared particularly ticul arly atrocious in the eyes ebes of the public as he had never before committed a similar one the mantle of it sanity insanity might bs be spread around him douglass 0 probably had eddons edsons example and easy fate in his minds eye when he went to perform his dastardly deed summed up the evidence deems to indicate that une one jack the ripper is followed by another one Gulden tragedy by another I 1 double murder and suicides of like nature follow each other in swift succession eion first because the tha widely published accounts have established a precedent and pointed the way and second because the chances of escape as in the cases cages of mrs nack will E edson and countless others are many the newspapers supply only what the public de mandi mandl arid and as sensationalism is the pass word to success we can call hope fur for no improvement pro in this direction until public taste shall hall have been educated to a higher plane but the administration of justice is committed to the bands of a comparatively few sworn officers of the law and rei red handed murderers should be so dealt with that while they might find many precedents leading them to the of the act they could not find one that would lead them to hope to escape c the merited penalty by means of some fictitious plea or unmerited executive clemency |
