Show THE COURSE OF LAW in the me sentimentalism that attended the closing days daya of the trial of the convicted wile wife murderer harris harric abd that has since made itself manifest iu in the announcement of measures to secure his bla pardon by the governor the american people have had about as disgusting a spectacle as the criminal annals of the country have ever furnished it ought to be a source of comfort to the right feeling elms of the community coDo that with all ibis pressure pree eure all this all this employment of eloquence emo ingenuity and cash the wheels ol of justice have rolled right along and the wretch has baa been sentenced to the death he be deserves it will be a still greater cause of relief from a menace to the well being of society if governor flower Flow of new york shall resist the appeals that are being abeln and will be made to him and shall permit the law to take its c ci uree every effort to save the man from conviction was made the skill of lawyer the testimony ui witnesses the sympathetic appeals tu to jurors were all employed lu the uttermost the court gave to the case an aa almost incredible amount oi 01 patience ane ana the press elaborated its ite various stages of progress with unexampled minuteness hungry aspects tors tore in sympathy with the accused packed the court rono roam and maudlin and hysterical c flora alora of aid flooded in III at all upon him even when a i last the jury bad found him guilty and within au an hour after sentence ui 01 death had bad been passed a howling bowling crowd of admirers and friends followed him to jail by their bonu conduct not and cries insulting insult iLig the ibe court shiell had given 1 him so tair fair a trial and the twelve men who in justice to the evidence their oaths and ana their sense of duty had to declare him a murderer the es ea in this case leavea nothing to be said in extenuation or by way ot of an appeal tor for executive mercy li it of being young goo looking educated and popular in high cir circle clep carlyle harris bad been an ignorant clodhopper we doubt that a word ot of sympathy would have been uttered or that an effort at amelioration of his fate would have been 1 ut forth by the public his crime was atrocious why should it be merely because he is a well medical student that he la is entitled tu to consideration when it loulu be denied an illiterate day laborer on the contrary is be nui not more selving uese tie iving ut of extreme by reason ut of his hie advantage tie he made a business buei oi 01 wrecking the souls and bodies of those atio would listen to his blandish menu had his graces been less winning winding his aos in his diabolical career had probably been lower how depraved theu the sentiment that would plead for his pardon on the ground ot of youth beauty and intellects Intel lecil the NEWS would not deny any culprit high or lowly the benefit oi 01 any charitable doubt that might exist as to his bis motive tor for and connection with his crime in this case no however wever tur testimony if all one way harris was proui ot of his triumphs over his victims and in order to unfettered the course in which he had been su so successful he deliberately murdered mur dfred his bis abild wile to get her out ot of the way all law human and divine demands that he be pay the penalty |