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Show H . MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. H No murder trials have given more geueral satisfaction than H those in which Lieutenant Charles Becker, who instigated, and the H four gunmen, who participated, in the murder of Herman Rosenthal H in New York, have been found guilty of murder in the first degree. H I The New York police force and the professional murderers of V" that city have been a law unto themselves for so mauy years that H nothing less than the strangling or electrocuting of a few of the k leaders in diabolical crime can shock them into a realization of their B own insecurity when at last public indignation asserts itself. I We are, on general 'principles, opposed to capital punishment, ' but in this instance we would not raise the slightest protest if Lieu- tenant Becker, "Lofty Louie," "Gyp the Blood," "Dago Frank" H i i and "Whitey" Lewis were sent heaven-ward as were tbe leaders of Hj j 1he Sepoy mutiny in 1857. New York state has our permission to H assemble the entire police force of New York City and, in the pres- H ence of officers and men, blow Becker and his gang of cutthroats to H I Jericho. |