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Show wild-eyed men with Imaginary grievances,1 griev-ances,1 which may be based on nothing irpre real than green-eyed Jealousy or over-suspicion, are apt to see in the acquittal of these self-avengers, a license for them to kill. Once the law is turned over to the aggrlovcd to bo by them Interpreted and enforced, there will be no law for those who aro most In need of a restraint strong enough to counteract their passions of envy, hatred and Jealousy. ,. y HAINS' ACQUITTAL. The acquittal of Thornton Halns by a New York Jury Is a recognition of the "unwritten law" which was somewhat some-what unexpected. A New York Jury, In tho trial of Harry Thaw, disagreed after D. M. Delmas, the famous criminal crim-inal lawyer, had made an eloquent and exhaustive appeal In Justification ot "dementia Americana." When tho Thaw jury refused to acquit on the plea of emotional Insanity, tho impression impres-sion prevailed in the west that tho East held to quite a different code of 1'onor from that accepted in the West and that New Yorkers were strict Interpreters In-terpreters of the law and aimed to be law-abiding under the most trying conditions. con-ditions. The Halns verdict upsets Jthls high opinion and places New York In accord with tho rest of tho country In fracturing tho rules of Justice, Jus-tice, In tho case of an outraged husband. hus-band. It would be better Jor all if the law were observed and tortured husband were made to realize that in killing the traducer they neither cure the wrong, restore the virtue nor heal tho wound which a wife's unfaithfulness has made an issue. There is only one justification for tho crime and that Is the removing from earth of a serpent. No one outsldo the closo circle of thoao concerned lu the loss of Annla would havo Thorntoa Halns severely punished, but It in a eerlous thing when juries sanction -murder, oven, (when tho provocation la a6 great as la tho ouee of Captain. Halnfe; Some |