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Show T A DISTRESSING SERMOX. (Buffalo Union and Times.) A 17-year-old Buffalo boy was last week convicted con-victed of murder in the second degree, and on Mon-day Mon-day was sentenced to life imprisonment. In summing sum-ming up the case District Attorney Coatsworth uttered ut-tered these pregnant remarks: , "Altogether too little heed and attention is paid by parents to bringing up and education of their children. What is the result in a great many of these cases? These fellows are brought into the world, they are nourished until they can walk and .are then turned loose upon the community. They hang around street corners and frequent saloons, they get into older and bad company and mingle with bad associates, and the first we see of them is that they are arrested for corner lounging. We next find them in our police courts, charged with petit larceny. We next find that they have been held to answer before the grand jury upon the charge of burglary, larceny, robbery, assault with intent to kill and other crimes of just as grave import. im-port. . "Where do we next find them? We visit our reformatories and penitentiaries and prisons, and there we find this fellow who started out in the manner I have described, who received at the hands of his parents no more consideration than 1 have tried to portray to you. and there i formatory, in that, penitentiary, or in tha prison ends wha might have been a useful life." From every Catholic pulpit in the land many tinics.in tho year God's priests hold the same fear-' ful picture before the eyes of parents and children, chil-dren, and dwell with all force of minds constantly bfbught in contact with the terrible fruits of evil on the greatest remedy that can be offered to nullify it-ftne religious school. . Th?Jiardeued criminal took his fate with fin indifference and bravado that appallled every S, k?J', Bef0re th? verdict was given he was X Wt f t6 3:ready t0 die' and "Sure' S i n gUC! ? dmm what they d with me. Damned if I know where I'll go. Trueman (one of his murderous companions yet untried) has been talking about trust in God, but I don't believe all litVof stuff ln the churche3 'hen teI1 When the verdict was given and Heimberger knew hi? late he was joyful, for he expected the ' electric chair. A local paper iuTuT' ing: 1 n m as !a f "It's too late for me now. I wi-h ,ir. r V i novel and never went -with a pan?. If j3 a ; i would be free now and not guiliv ,,f KfH ntI man. But I want other bors to bru-rir l ''1'1' 3 Tell them all f nm sorrv I belonged t., .1',Ta", $ j read novels, and that I wish I had MM,1p)'r('i?, "n'1 1 1 If other fellows are wise they will p;iv ,rm'.ri f",,B- ' J tion to my warning and get. into thr hu,, f farTrn- in? home nights, before it too ",' ,!y' and they get into trouble." r '"fni Here is an awful lesson f(,r parrnr .,nr1; ,.. from two extremes the . law-giver an.I ' t,p J breaker. Would that we oculd ssiy , j tended for Catholic parents ,-md 4iiMVn V" ! alas! many of them need it onlv too va;!v ,.,,'m'"'' "I it all too seldom. ' ' J"" h"Pfi j |
