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Show T ognlzed only as a minor offense. Certainly Cer-tainly the man who kills a mother with grief auch as Mr. and Mrs. Whlt-la Whlt-la suffered, Is more of a criminal than the man, who. In the beat of anger, Arcs a bullet through his victim's 'heart. Yet wo recall bow the law treated Pat Crowe, kidnaper, caught In Butte and returned to the state where his crime was committed. In a case like the one in Pennsylvania it is difficult to make the punishment fit the crime, but, measured by ordinary standards, it would seem that tho severest punishment would be none too severe a fato for kidnapers. If now and then tho men guilty of this peculiar pe-culiar crime were dealt with without mercy, perhaps there would be fewer abductions In this country, where every ev-ery rich man's child is in danger. KIDNAPING. The Whltla Incident brings to mind the fate of Charlie Ross, who thirty-five thirty-five years ago was stolen by two men who carried him oft from his home in Pennsylvania, says the Butte Inter-. Mountain. The search made for the lad by his father interested the entire country. The boy was never found; his mother passed to an early grave beeauso of the crime, and tho father ruined in health and financially, dropped drop-ped out of sight many years ago. Since the disappearance of little golden-curled Charlie Rosa, there have boon many such crimes, all of which aroused the country at the tlmo the papers were full of them, only to bo droppod later as some new sensation demanded public attention. We punish pun-ish with death tho crime of murder; yet tbe crime that killed Charlie Ross' mother and that which threatened to eend the mother of Willie Whltla to an early grave, is In many states rec- |
