Show 1 our current record of and murder F four gur our murders signalize the opening of the present week A sad commentary truly on our boasted civilization four brutal inexcusable fiendish murders are added to to the list of deeds deeda of blood that disgrace our criminal calendar the week opened with an affray between brothers in law in a tenement house houses during which one of the parties undertook to explain matters to the other with a hatchet on the same evening a man was fatally stabbed in a drunken affray in a liquor store after midnight the proprietor of another drinking saloon was desperately wounded by a knife in the hands of a man to whom he refused liquor but the saddest case of all was the murder of mrs gellen geden at the age of eighteen years by her husband a worthy representative of the I 1 corner loafer class this last mentioned tragedy is of such an atrocious character that it calls for grave reflection A beautiful young girl employed in a store forms the acquaintance 1 I uain talice of a good looking but dissipated young man whose principal occupation seems to have been loafing she foolishly consents to marry this wretch contrary to the wishes of her father and quickly ascertaining her terrible mistake leaves her worthless husband and takes refuge with her parents the husband killed her for this on sunday night we cannot speak too often of this frightful epoch of murder which seems to be now at its zenith in this city it is useless to argue more on the inefficiency of the law on this subject when murderers become the especial prot prof eg es of the court an devery obstacle is thrown before the wheels of justice we can only wait patiently until such a monstrous outrage to civilization is removed from the statute book the last of the state legislature was spent in purely political schemes and nothing was done to secure tle the the speedy punishment of assassins once in the tombs the murderer finds numerous advocates and the plain unvarnished story of his cowardly crime when it ia is placed before the jury becomes a labyrinth of sophistry and irredeemable dee mable nonsense when the jury find him guilty convenient judges and technical errors give him another lease of his life trial after trial may take place placie until the public forgets the erime crime and the execution takes place when the very object for which it is intended is no longer 1 in the memory of the people but in the murder of this girl wife the pernicious element of corner loafer ism comes into prominence there is a class of young men we may call them boys in this city whose principal occupation consists of profanity di unken drunken ness and occasionally murder unhappily this class is very large and arid is constantly increasing inci easing by dy willing recruits parents are too often to blame for the existence of sueh such wretches as they make poor attempts to curb nascent depravity the police wilin gly or in despite of themselves I 1 allow a gang of young rum ruf ruffians flans to fester into crime at each prominent corner tho the marriage law ia is so lax in its provisions that any weak minded girl may be persuaded into wedding one of these scoundrels the natural result of such a marria marriage e is shown y sunday nights tn tragedy edy eds the re medy remedy for such a disgraceful condition of affairs in society is plain A criminal law unencumbered with vexatious delays and miserable subterfuges ter fuges stern uncompromising action on the part of the police towards corner loh loafers fens fers and a more rigid id enforcement of the laws wil which ieh ich should protect the sacred institutions of matrimony matri nony will bo be found efficient checks to theares the present avalanche of murder in lit this city new york herald kerald june 10 an indiana justice of the peace leae claims the power to earry tarry as well as to marry aud has lias been granting 9 C divorces accordingly 11 tir lir ir leigh smith a 11 wealthy english has fitted out an expedition expense and lard started for the polar cemetery |