Show THOU t graer HALT kox nox kili cities in flames hotels burned with frightful loss of life lastly murders fou mud aud most unnatural we boast of civil we prate of justice we build gorgeous anc eo 6 churches in which to worship t the h creator re elion one day in seven and de V by breaking his decalogue th ane e j remaining ema ining six we have pur pun h ak I 1 A 1 I epidemics of cholera of ama kipi LIPI ipox q of ir typhoid fi bold hold fever why not our moral of violating all the commandments Command anif anul menti menfi mente ili iii jn order to discover illch ilich sin most mos t favor and it i ubo dhe the most moat enjoyable on 0 tho iho whole we 6 conclude I 1 ude that murder pre preeminently ew eminently bently cald old oid murder is bauar ba or mic wic h we mo mosi most st hanker banker for hio bio bic y nature the on aln lac burla w ake ane et designed io coVer coder W with luh iab cuautle of charitable fa forgiveness M ta having waving J fastened our amme affe affections c jn the rel ret corm comm we de cirelo detic deryl we d curf curr ingenuity b by inventing sauces tsau pes piquant with wa which ww fi to 6 kol koi this defiance there a are rb I 1 in ll 11 the cutting of clothes abnot fashions inthe Intha cutting oc I 1 throats incy fth fib j uld be alive today to day 0 o printhe pa inthe beauties i a utie s of murden murder considered as igne of the nine fine artsy adi hould uld have stood P on a monday night within wittily thea badow hadow or street and witnessed how iiii lit tite tiet lower than athean gels geis g e iti its is madi mani JL fa A charming spectacle ye iding of americas gt gr besl el fy J will wiil we turn on the calcium bilci rei iel light which alone wha whig needed 0 o quake anake the bloody deed as dra maite maile a seffi As eyer eyen the modern playwright credio dr edio edlo 0 dreamt two men meet by men mer who had bad former ly been beel parl pall ners nera is the jhel disreputable business of lot try tty dealing and had quarrelled quarrel led themselves into 0 dissolution each babli taking with ith him hini this his iligo aten rains gains each esch living on the fat nat batand and the folly of the land they meet indulge in language befitting their honorable calling and finally the man simmons calls the man duryea a thief dont you call me a thief mutters duryea swearing 1 I will call you a thief 11 says SIM with an obscene oan oath duryea strikes simmons they clinch and roll into the gutter simmons Sim monh mony the more powerful man seems to have the advantage and duryea tries in vain to free himself from the grasp of his hla adversary ver sary 11 G d d n you he exclaims let me up I 1 die first replies simmons sim Bim mons giving him a tremendous blow the blood gushes from Dur yeas eyes and nose and trickles down his cheeks for gercys sake let me up he cries go to h lii III I 1 simmons answers with another blow the blood covers dur yeas face and streams over hla his collar and his shirt as he again cries for gercys sake dont kill me kill you I 1 simmons exclaims ina in a fearful paroxysm of rage id kill you a dozen times if I 1 could duryea succeeds in raising himself a little he seizes simmons by the throat and attempts to choke him simmons gasps for breath his face is livid and ft beems seems as if duryea were to havethe have the best of it after all he tries to free his bis neck but cannot fig G d d you I 1 he gasped lii ill kill you if I 1 putting his hand into his pocket he draws forth a knife it flashes in the air and in the next moment is burled buried in Dur yeas yens neck oh ohi ohl oh duryea cries as his hib head bead sinks back bathed in blood again the knife flashes in the air again it descends the arteries behind the ear have been cut another stab and the writhing duryea is dead by J hes dead simmons remarks coolly as he be draws the reeking knife out of the dead mans neck and aad looking hooking at it complacently mutters by G I 1 thought id do it once and im glad giad ive done it now when all is ikover over to the satisfaction of the bystanders by standers who have given their moral support to the performance by never raising a hand in defense odthe of the murdered and when duryea is quite dead a policeman appears and demands the knife I 1 ali ail all right 1 answers the hero of twe the fray you can have it how I 1 dont want it any more the hero injures his ankle ankie but what of that T ethere are Ar there not carts with which to convey his brave person to the police station and are there not cigars the very best lor dor him to smoke after he gets there does be not know that murder is made easy and justice is played out he coolly sends for a surgeon desiring him to pull away he turns urns round to survey the co corpse se as it passes by without a tremor rf an fn his face why should there he be does not simmons know ahat courts and juries are on his side what matters t if journals protest and wo men shudder for the lives of husbands pursuing the very dangerous occupation of minding their own business in the region of a street well named liberty ay our hero can even afford to lose hig hia temper at the delay in furnishing him with an ambulance in which to pursue his triumphant way to the hospital when is that ambulance go going to come its very cruel to keep me gere here my foot is very bad surely the man who backs his fellow to pieces has a right to protest against neglect of a lame foot has a right to be surrounded by confidential friends to whom he communicates muni cates in whispers with a view probably of buying up whatever of law is remaining in this land of the free we leave our hero comfortably comfortably housed with all the delicacies of t the e season about his romantic bedside with now that blood has been shed a police officer on guard night and day suppose a police officer had been on guard in liberty street what then 2 why then in murder i might not have been possible and we could not have sat down to tuesdays breakfast with a fitting relish so we are content and we ve ask publio public opinion lo 10 agree with us in thin thinking kink that never have we had more reason to be proud of humanity whether in the shape of murderer murdered spectators or absent policemen AW that never have we been so entertained as bathis by this most playful encounter that never were the streets by day and night so suggestive of romantic adventure that never did the sight of glitt glittering bring steel so thrill us with ritts ritas pleasing thoughts of our approaching doom 0 in we weare are cheerfully making our wills and abd as just compensation for benefits conferred leave hav r e everything to the chivalric souls burning to help heip 1 u us 8 0 on n the road to heaven heavin knowing that they will gladly pay for us one debt that of nature let us by all means erect a monument to simmons in central park in commemoration of the triumph of brute force passion and every diabolical instinct over law justice decency 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