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Show MURDERERS AND DEFECTIVES. There are now in the penitentiary death cells two youths, Thorn and Riley, awaiting execution for the murder in our city of an inoffensive man. At Santaquin, the grave just closed over an aged man, Mosaih Gunderson, foully murdered by two boys. The crime was altogether unprovoked, and seems to have been utterly motiveless. Were both these murderous attacks made in pure wantonness, or were they the acts of young men irrationally prone to crimes of violence ( Undoubtedly there are at large in our city and state degenerates and defectives who, on the slightest provocation or, indeed, without any provocation, would murder a man or woman without exactly knowing why they did the awful deed. A temptation, a suggestion, entering their unbalanced minds, weakened by secret sins, by drink, gambling and association with fallen women, is enough to make them felons. There is neither a reliable moral sense nor a conception of the horror of the awful acts to restrain re-strain them from perpetrating the foulest crimes. It is not so much that they have strong passions impelling them to violence as that there is no consciousness con-sciousness of sin in the frightful deed they have done or are about to do. There is in thenr nothing, absolutely nothing, of moral good to stay or meet the promptings of their diseased minds. Several other cases of murderous attacks, most of them fatal, have lately been dealt with or soon will be dealt with. These are the crimes of persons per-sons seemingly intelligent and morally responsible, persons actuated by the desire for revenge, by covetousness, or by other incitement, their malevolence malev-olence being in some cases stimulated by liquor. Murderers of this class have, we are assured, increased in-creased in numbers in recent years, one reason doubtless being that the chances of escaping the rope or the bullet have in the same period been greatly increased. To overawe free wills, to restrain re-strain responsible individuals harboring murderous designs against their fellow men, it will be well for the public generally, and, above all, for the jurors drawn from the ranks of the pulbic, to be less squeamish as to the infliction of the extreme penalty pen-alty upon murderers. As for those abnormal hu man beings who are as ready to commit murder as they are to steal or beg, or who murder just for r notoriety's sake, or who slay upon impulses they can neither control nor account for, nothing remains but to round them up and keep them where they can do no harm. The tendencies of defectives defec-tives r-rf- usually betrayed in early years, and when greatMack of sympathy for suffering of man or bea.'t, or a propensity to cruelty are manifested. These ought to be watched carefully, for they may on the slightest provocation become human rattlesnakes, rattle-snakes, j |