Show THE ELKO HORROR the first legal execution of a woman that has bad to be r recorded scolded against the west was enacted at uko elko nevada on friday the woman and her husband were convicted together and hung bung at the same time tha the public were forbidden access to the jail yard during the execution but the sickening det details ails of the tragedy were spread out before be fore them in the evening papera papers for a upper supper appetizer furnishing a superb background for a nightmare horror when they should retire with all due respect to severe laws tor for heinous crimes and a prompt and decisive execution of them the man who could read the newspaper reports of the potts execution without shuddering to the marrow in bis his bones and crying oat out upon such inhuman and barbarous work would not be a eafe safe person to meet at a disadvantage there have been very few courts in this country that have possessed the baseness to sentence a woman to the death penalty it has been tried before in a few instances and it dont answer after the mrs infamy and the companion horror that tha t took place in the state of new now york a few years ago it is something of a our surprise pries that in all civilized america an official could be found to repeat such an outrage upon civilization the guilt or innocence of the victim Is not a consideration when it comes to a punishment so shocking that a person of ordinary sensibilities cannot contemplate it without utterly abhorring the man and the system that has znada made it possible one of the great purposes ot of punishing criminals is for the example it will ba be to the community what sort of profit in bat that line can come of an example in which the original crime of the victim is utterly buried in a dominant loathing for the cruelty displayed in the vengeance ot of the law lawt among the people who have read of 0 the scene at elko on friday and pictured in their imaginations that woman being lead likes like a 1 beast wast to the slaughterers slaughter ers gallow sand stranded strangled in the air till her white garments are drenched with the blood from her throat bow how many will w til bo be likely ever again to think of the cri crime meshe she may have committed committe dand and for which this brutal spectacle baa has been made of her I 1 nature and the force of centuries of subordination have made woman a very much weaker fabric than man against her possible propensities for fir crime be he needs no such protection as capital punishment affords to pro I 1 mn ef 7 fame some that society demands guch such a I 1 system of purification is the moat most abject of 0 cowa cowardice rOlce the bort sort of 0 protection which society needs at present more than anything elee else in this tin s nefarious world is more of the chivalry that exalts and deities woman above her natural plane that guards and strengthens her frailties and forgives as far as grature will alow her foibles or her crimes if need be that under any possible conditions would regard her person too sacred f fi r the degradation of a hang haing mans mania cooee noose we have no purpose to stir up ill temper amon gour eiko elko neighbors at the same time let the judges of this fair land of america take heed that they dont allow a false and cruel zeal for the law to betray them into each such another outrage upon de ceacy |