Show I 1 homicidal hominid al crl cri crima mo the frequency of homicide homI cIda in tills this city is ja one of the alarming signs of the times within a fortnight D there thero have been nearly half a score of convictions for murder or manslaughter and five of these theae were for murder in the first degree the last of the capital convictions was the seil seli sentence tence of charles weston yesterday for participation in the murder of Wels weis weisburg burg the in every case the guilt of the culprit was clearly established and the doom doorn of the criminals followed so quickly upon their crimes that the thie effect of these speedy trials and fail fall to be most wholesome A stern enforcement of the law is essential at this time for there seems just jast now to be a mania for homicidal erime A few days ago we referred to td the many murders and attempt attempts 9 at murder growing out of jealousy and digap point ments menta in loveli uit tit it seems mania mailla is still more moke dan daw berous ge rous aud and that the relation of father fage fdge and son an deven even of son and abd m 6 thenis thesis nod not sufficient to preserve society from tendency it is only a week since a bang bung mari mail was ww convicted of murder in the thayl thirll agree for brutally kicking his mother and leaving 11 her on the floor of her wretched a apartment to die dle drunkenness was the cause causo of this horrible of bf rence lence bill but later still wo we had the sabry ora ofa drunken father shoot ing his son while in ina lna condition so be sot tedas us to be bd apparently ap ardently aa of the crime he had committed the latter case is one of the most lamentable that has come under our notice in a long time and arid while whilo the cause Is plain enough the remedy is not co io apparent the advocates of prohibition will tind in lie it a strong argument in favor of their theory but experience has shown that rime erime crime cannot be prevented by this mode of repression some other means ef of preventing elating murders of or this kand and of every avery kind must bo be found arid and the oni only onis y method likely to crove crave effective tl la s the sten stern 11 punish punishment ment of tilo the guilty murderers mus be taught thai drunk drunkenness felli is no excuse for crime ibid and t thae that est esi the full penalty of the thu law is i s certain to to tollow now how the of fenee fence irl 14 no oth other er way is it possible to efad eradicate leate the disease especially at a time when telen there Is ia a strange mania manla for or homicide if so many murderers were not hot a allowed flowed to go unpunished so many murders would not becom be com mitta until within a dew few i lays days hanging seeni aenied se nied ed in the tile ax re s sive langua language ae of pi a criminal who ex expiated prat phat ed his offense offence on the gallows to be lie almo almos splayed j itri ayad ou outa out tf and irid juries were ere in a great degree te responsible for this state of thin things IS there was a tendency to convict of tilo tho lowr lower A instead of the higher hi lher grades Q of f niura der where only tile the full penalty of the law liw is equal to the emergence emergency but we are glad glod losea to feo fee s co that a charge change has boun been w wrought rou glit gilt in lu L this respect qt in the future we inet repress redress humai hummi cide by hanging all mur deris ers and though the remedy Is a terrible one its ils application av now bow ilmy limy hav do lo away with its necessity feces ilyin ld tile theu them I 1 tur tun ur by b the operation of a whole wholesome odle ft fear a r growing out of tiie the tho certainty of te the 11 full enforcement of or til the jag jaw aw new yew york bark herald hernia |