Show WOMEN IN CRIME already are pleas in abatement being sent in in behalf of the woman who is shortly to be tried for the murder of president McKin mckinless leys brother in law at canton ohio also are we advised in advance that not a jury in the country will convict her that local opinion is divided between condemnation dem nation and a charitable theory it at her wrongs palliate her crime Siv several Opral other women are under arrest omd awaiting trial for murder and it it a fair presumption that similar are being presented in behalf of 0 weh ech of them this raises the question AW as va the sufficiency of that branch of ur renal regulations not only as to taw practice which obtains but the philosophy involved laws that are so pliable that they can be made a sword for one class of society and a shield for another class equally guilty are a poor reflex of that lofty civilization to which we are ship supposed posed to have climbed after so long A struggle with the passions tendencies and backwardness of the human family if the taking of human life with mallee aforethought or the taking of it without malice where no con idd erable provocation appears is not taur baurder der it is of some other grade of attending and ought to be called by home dome other name it if it to is properly named 06 it is and fittingly placed it to its or should be the offense of which cognizance is taken and not the social w other status of the individual in admer words wordis murder Is murder by committed and when in regarding the perpetrators in practiced the ia law against the crime tit 19 undermined to that extent weaken ilir atit it and lessening its terrors for all aames ass Ihei biere 6 should be no feeling of ree nod no demand erhand for personal satis fetton tn in the administration of any the Ir dori of any penalty that ts ft not 6 ar should not be the aim or end tt the an of penal statutes U la abt thi the related mated fi amy or atay other per baie or eldva cla whatever that to is exclusive estby edt by the crime tt it is th the eri I 1 I 1 6 ahki bif outraged arid and if t reparation not in the le oa patron it a fal family milly or a C com up fratt n the name of the adm it id 18 the th crime the theun un nix r tilie oe of prerogative that cou ahe e wr w 9 and that aptt it is III enla for r the el example MIL to onnet the moi moral al leafing g out growths of ater a more of less leas 1 aa ab character 1 0 this b eang t ahe e save k we we oi nc ze v 16 make exceptions X on 4 ait h I 1 are impartial and univ universal ersal in theirl their meaning and intent and constantly present to the world the spectacle of a double violation once by the original nil offenders who take the laws into hla his own hands and again by the court or jury who from whatever reason causes them to become a dead letter I 1 it is shown that even the hardest of the mining camps have outgrown grown the idea that murder is a personal matter matter with which society ought not to meddle and claimed that they relapse to barbarism again where the crime is committed by a woman or by a man claiming to act as a champion of his cifes honor As justifiable as such trilling killing may be and doubtless frequent ly is it is still a matter relating to the public at large and is for the public in its organized capacity to deal with any other idea or the attempt to lionize lionie and exempt from consequences by physical means it if necessary essery the perpetrator pe is as surely a backward step down the long lane which leads from the wilderness of barbarism as Is any other usurpation of the functions and privileges of the law let strict equality be maintained let the punitive statutes mean as much for one person as for another if we would uphold and maintain without coercion coer pion or fear that wholesome respect for the laws which constitutes the lest best and most moat lasting basis of civilized society |