Show the e ell eli of marder in the city murder is the fashion of the day in new york humiliating as the confession is truth compels it criminal homic homicides idea are recorded in almost every issue of the kerald herald the sickening details furnishing daily sensational horrors life is held cheaper here to day than it has ever before been even in the most lawless localities of the west or south in the flush times thirty or forty years awo noo ngo ago it was esteemed perilous to visit matchez under the hill hlll after nightfall pistols and bowie bowle knives were freely used there but the blacklegs who ho congregated in the hells were cognizant of the custom and honest people could stay away califor nias early miners protected their lives and property with the ready revolver and punished theft by the simple law of vengeance in the rude conditions of society which sanctioned such practices there was a lack of the regular organizations for dispensing justice the swift punishment ot 0 an offender by the party injured or his immediate friends though informal was often actual justice and popularly accepted as such here on the contrary we have murderous violence in open de defiance flance fiance of law and alid public sentiment our city is guarded by a vigilant police its courts of criminal minal jurisdiction alemany are many and aud costly perhaps nowhere else does the public pay more liberally for judicial protection yet murder stalks our most public streets in high day it holds revel in oar eur blums blumb at night it infests our hotels it mocks the majesty of the law by slaying its victim on the threshold of a judges chamber it is all about us thickening the air with blood and it is never punished jack reynolds was a prophet hilj His execution only gave the seeming lie ile to his assertion hanging is played out which has since his bis death become literal truth our city prison is a thronged thron ged with murderers their lives are safer ther than ethan those of the average citizen in the streets we do not hold hoid the police responsible for the tei terrible condition into which we have drifted they usually detect and arrest the slayers in the practical uselessness nebs nebb of our courts mild and prosecuting officers is the source of this plague which if not stayed will work the ruin of our great and proud city it is well known that money is able to postpone and indefinitely prolong the trial of it a culprit guilty of the most heinous murder if money is nou nob used to corrupt omm off meers leers it certainly is made to procure such vexatious delays that in effect it thwarts justice and procures procure ii immunity immunity Y from penalty to the most guilty it obstructs and clogs all the operations of the courts and far worse has cr cre ere abed sted a popular belief that murder in new now york Y ork to is not to be punished this is in the explanation of the reign of murder at all times and in all places through our city were it once again established that speedy and sure hanging banging would be the fate of every murderer from that moment murder would become a rare crime to bring back this assurance is the sacred duty as it is the urgent interest of every citizen without it neither life ilfe nor property can long have V value alue new york gierald JI erald |