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Se a Ne cele ee eee ee ee ae THE SUN ee ee eee t Se ? 2 “ 4 ' of cen alpaca RE ne mre ST ME - By H. L. MENCKEN i DEERE Tae ’ 7OT many pesple will cijeet te the” 7" f N F Pe eee ae .. Tey Fact that the Hen, Mr. Tore | senitenes passedian the Mon. Avirhe a . ' quinio, at his able counsel suggested, ; Reenetinrinenn one on i wes “x petssn of low mentality’ wars | sparcoly osaTielest, hy Tiself, to save fuet fran Wake Brads’s lethal-engi- fe xs. Persona who have the Kind af Tow rscnialita wich ipods tem te 2 Mares. Tarquinia a week or a0 ap hy three Jewmed judess in the Crimigal Court, There was plenty oof room.in the faw te cave hin 7rarm the gaitows, and there was eves: mote “do assaesinnke an. indent stranger. Fa be suse, judes and juries usunily niatage te distinguish ellectiveiy hee gwen the twa alfonses, but nat always. Hf the wife commonly escapes | rommen ¢riminal, the desthiiouse, thea so, very efiger Very few xo . dines the bandit, and by the we oT Rae men make away with _eawuistey invented to save the wite. (TF Exebands without perfects ound i What is needed is sharp distiseuos . *" sient in theiz own ght | between murders that are deliborate and ae het a mont sesiscble POPEATER but nevertheless have aome. plausible |: is meres when they are detected and suppert it iagic, and murders that are hrausht to heel, that they suffer die giirely gratuitous. and vicions, The fsie Fudge Peederich Bans, af Seattl, Wisk. a Tights iniediteat furist, once sugcested jhat-as hasdchke be classed as mucsder in the first degree: watts fe geablen theic privgte chars oweler Bertonee if as vleteymined ice i faw ahoutd end at compiderahiys ard ‘ ervsy dreating’ the perpeizator as thathacs ave assumed: in theory: te have compiled. dudges and jorics are pfeoient in, such. cases, not, because the Accused i A waman, but beesuse they cart get rid af the feeling that she whith ane could imagine an onbnariy hed yi seputable pérsom committing ineler i Bo Monty of excuse for what she did, the cirgumatandes. He aid nat prapase + tnd thot in any event there wag no that mich slayings be grauped with public Joss or dasnge, justifiable or excusable homicides: | Certainty every man of wardly ex. whieh would relieve them af all | Perence must. recall Instances when, punghment: he simply advocated aut 4 at the ohseqaies of an acguain’ance, eye which suggested trhumph rather then. xtief. Perhaps if weowere inteal _cithens af an Heal commonwealth with penalties taking acceunt. of relative veniality, and Aever sa: ee BALTIMGRE, MARYLAND ce RRS ERR, . Reflections On Homicide shoud be ciag nied inte, af course, it i hanging me. thegh Fd have been 6% inl punishment of the atreciaus crime: | tingl thom inte # catenory of there Bdas caught « glint in the widow's | eee OE a wee > in Be a Tame tts Clegg aesee hth, Cingey sant Be, Creal an eee ir. rain, pereran fe, Foxserts - ate, Gta ae Rr Terk sew ate, Taerter sae ~ we'd drap an. ananymoud tb potter in every such c thin ie dig up the carcass & submit! te fe chemists: But sve dix that onl} é farely dE have done myself ne more. than haifa dozen Himes in forty years}, $ simply because we are well aware that t ‘he, Cee Ft | rad ks ‘Temy sabia | Skee tpaady nen aegaen A dee heb eoy quartered the girl of hit dreams, but alters ie ae tare. and Fema hy i: bemped eh bis hat ine | : ft was also established that the prov- siarety cota its sights when it cits Pret in law, and at ‘a ike sel. : poy ecation was an alinoet-ivvesistibie one eh Cac ct wlan. if oniy’ ak a cheap and | valved no ponderafte lass ewer" af to, at - - to what his attorney described frankly |S STy means ol getting. vid ef therg: Twe Question we te the human value 24 ‘a9 - we "8 persons of low rnentality.” More= But even * mart ot reasonably hich uf the Hf Me. Ta sainios jate lady ye on over. ft was proved up tothe REL ase mentales, aitivted by fo absadoned a : f the one ir. nae ber it could Coe sel at site effect ge afer cect, that wepehore Fee flies, onight breve heen td rint antag mito hits ‘a Me ewes Sort pt sias Bee! oF ane remifled areqsilely fo knock Ker in. fot be [etehed in by our tules of law. the lady wes fot only = private reve she hee’, thowch set, perhaps. fe We srauime aficially thef all cilsens . bat so a sible sezaine, eel ie anathe® Res Roerward, i frat to raention sens) are of pres | y it Wax atompanied unquectiiniably « thew fname such element of Faw} ene is the fame Grime ae r Lin . , by every grave kind of diraccerty “tof ‘eed thas fall shart of deservicks, other. Bat sak weal, ad gular * yy ¢ eon oh ae eathiae punihment, They are essen enonch, ss Renee es ‘ ‘ hatever ° a . 0 eatogorios of Srimicile are “eisthy nivate, atairs, with no agpieci- Op ni6A Paaects a ane * : “ ate ‘ Pardic : a - omble effects asen the public safety. is dignity or Ine. if, while the date + poe | sargd, ang Renee more ef dea mine ve dencped inte the rategors of Mr. Dillinger wos atl alive, 1 had vA es wile fo poiten a drunken and brutal ‘pt Sey BUFeRIRE pen « subject ‘8 : shat Bir trou sautd tate advocated ; vy ty a’ hushand and for 4 profesvona! ba # Ar miteriag upon tae Ring. They ; bis right senses way ¥ ‘ al fe * Spagiy gualty of avucdet tn the Bret" dees as Dalinger fimeclf wes. : bo in the days when there war a, ‘a sathence af constrictive eriliciern in. the sountry Lance miecumbed to ig * worselt long enouch to suggest that thie” i very senginie. atlases be adopted by - A i the law~that-is, that a persed accused § ij nf crime sgainst the person be pers, it MmINPE ta plead the vharretarypat hie. : | victin. It in done, of course, evep NOW, | + but peu by indirection, only Gy wel: ‘dng bound the rules ef evidende, Ne malt accused of prarder woold be pore “ated ig argae La. apen. enurt thet killing the deceased was a public sery- ives da the gory Prohibition era pune men were often Jound guilty ef mur der in the frst. degree, and even: . henged, for dispatching other guarnen. What I had especially ba mind, at’ the time I miade my suggestion, was the case of incompetent, corrupt ‘and stii-social public offciglt, Getting rid | ot them oy strictly Jegal meang a everyone knows, ls a tedious and wep | pelsive process, Consides, for ecample, fr 84. ee gt | A Q