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Show A BAD WOMAN AND A BAD MAN. Mrs. Cora Muena, the widow who accepted the attentions of Joseph Wendling, a married man, and then, with a reward to tempt her, informed the officers of the law where to find her admirer, may never have the nerve to be a notorious criminal, but she is possessed of all the small, mean traits of a thoroughly bad woman a dangerous danger-ous woman. v There are many people who never get into jail whose mean- ness of heart is that of the base criminal. They keep out of prison through dread of incarceration and yet commit petty offenses which, in the aggregate, should place them with the outcasts of society. Here is this woman, a Mrs. Muena. Evidently she knew Wend-ling Wend-ling to be a fugitive, or at least a derelict, but she encouraged biro to think he had won her esteem, and perhaps her affection, but the moment she was face to face with a bribe to place Wendling, her friend, on the guillotine or the gallows, thero was no hesitancy on her part, no compunction. She dealt with a human life with about v the same absence of feeling as must have possessed Wendling when he brutally put to death the little school girl in the basement of a ! parochial school at Louisville. All men have the utmost of loathing for a depraved fellow like f Wendling. His degeneracy is distressingly revolting, but the hein- j oua nature of his crime would have been disregarded by Mrs. Muena j and there would have b9en no incentive to turn the rascal over to ' the law had there been no monetary reward no mercenary motive. There is no punishment in law prescribed for a person of the base impulses of a Mrs, Muena, in fact the law sees fit to encourage one crook to sacrifice the other, but when the good and bad in men and women are measured and balanced in the scales of justice, on that day, of the many choeen for exaltation, Mrs. Muena will not be one of them. Of that we are assured. |