Show THE KILLING OF KING WHEW such an affair as the shooting of henry W king in omaha takes place it naturally creates a great sensation it represents the tragic element on the society stage and none of 0 its features are permitted to dwindle or become obscure for want of elaboration or even ornamentation in repeating the details the higher the actors stand in the social scale the more intense the interest and the more earnest those who take in hand band the task of giving the details the necessary paint and finish to work up a dramatic climax it was so when 11 and for a long time after laura D F fair air shot her paramour crittenden on the oakland terry ferry boat in the presence of his wife and child only in this instance the slayer was presumably aware of her guilty relations with the man and in the other one the presumption is the other way it is not because these unlawful associations are rare that such developments as those spoken of create a great impre impression for it is well known that in some circles hougg men and abild even those not so young are re considered unsophisticated flud ami mawkishly good jf if they are strictly moral and confine their attentions attention i to 10 afie other sex to the limits prescribed by divine and human laws it is the fact that men and their mi stresses so seldom have trouble that causes so great a sensation when they do sometimes one is ia killed sometimes we tue other and the survivor becomes a murderer in common estimation while the slain Is a averring an erring victim there is something radically wro wrong lu in i all tills and the way such cases ye treated by the public nas no tend fly y in the elroc tie alen of suppressing up pressing or even curt curtailing curtail ailine ins the evil the facts in the king shooting case seem to be that the deceased cod consorted darted for a long time with one libbie bibble beechler in chicago nis cis friends say as ilia his mistress she claims as his bis wife she further claims that he had bad previously been married and divorced but that he had assured her that she was his bis first avd and only love alus anus if that be true beginning begin nine in deception where there woula wo dai seeni seem to have been no necessity for it and no reason except that foolish and s disposition on the part of some whose instincts or cultivation are vicious to look upon marriage present or past as an unfavorable reflection upon or great detriment to them in any event she surrendered herself entirely into his keeping and whether the compact was sinful or otherwise some degree of sacredness would seem I 1 to 0 o accompany such self abnegation and it should have been met wits wita candor and sincer sincerity ity the theory that king was a deceiver then is supported if not fully demonstrated by his sab sequent conduct having won tue ane at af fec iiona of a young girl in oun and married her a short shore time since it was the of this marriage accidentally coming to libbie beechler Beech lur that nerved her to 10 a radii raati and deti desperate deed the taking ol of kings lite life king was highly connected of course his fattier father is senior partner in the firm arm of henry W king co of chicago he gives it il as his opinion that the woman was a fallen one and that his son had decided to abandon ilia his erring ways and settle down quietly to business bus icess in omaha with the ibe orl kirl lie he had warrie married d in missouri massou rl of course he is arofo profoundly u adly afflicted justas just as many other parents have been and are at the wicked waywardness ward ness of their offspring and the inevitable result of such conduct when persisted in they can and do advise counsel suggest and even offer in those whom they would we have follow honorably in the path they themselves have walked and when it au comes to naught when the insidious monster vice has completely bound them in his hio toils it must sobie sometimes be a relief shocking though it Is when the end comes an and d the life story to Is closed in the midst of all this we so far j tail fall to find a generous word or the suggestion of possible justification for tile the woman under Und erthe the most unfavorable aspect of the case it will scarcely be urged that the blame was hers no matter if the alliance with the man of her choice was unholy and a nd unsanctified it must most have been that the compact was at least mutual if not solicited by him I 1 and in t that hat view of the case we can afford to wait and see what the process of law and the march of events develop in relation to the tragedy I 1 |