| Show CHANGE ir IF IN FUTURE in fridays Fri daya NEWS there was wag ao an account of an awful murder followed by the suicide of the murderer in a little town in in utah county A demented husband slaughtered his big wife who being in bed with their twenty four hours old infant was too weak t prevent the murderous deed he be then turned the weapon on himself with fatal effect bythe by the tragedy there are nine orphaned children in the town today regrettable as such an awful event to Is at any time in this case it is made more so from the probability that strict surveillance might have prevented icat least might have preserved to those orphans a mother whose loving wate hoare licare they are now de derived delved of and averted a horrible crime some borne weeks ago the husband and father attempted self destruction he had bad made threats frequently causing him tobe to be feared by some assi as a dangerous man he was wait known to be mentally unbalanced but bad lucid intervals and the officers and many others thought him barmess none will say it was intentional Intent iova negligence which this man to be left at liberty it was rather a mis taken policy that is in given too much scope in this section instead of being confined in jail twenty five live days for the be previous attempt on his life and then turned loose upon his dramise to do better this man who had bad dis played insanity sufficiently serious to threaten others and to try to kill himself should have been taken by the county officers and placed in the insane ay asylum lum where competent authority w uld pass upon the state of his mental faculties the mistake was made when he wag sent to jail all for his bis former attempt on his life the proper place was the insane asylum for him and for all who ghoul similar traits trails A recognition of this 1 tact and application of the rule 1110 fitting such euch calep would have prevented ilia th i murderous deed let it be a sad aad but effective warning for all future cases |
