The New York herald., 1871-09-06
CRIME AND RELIGION Connected.

70 on yyEaF aFppaaISeF FppaaISeFV q 2F THE TIE HERALD:- i
fed to learn that the police OF your city have mos
likely discovered the murderer of the poor CIR
whose remains were recently found in the Hudson
River Railroad depot packed In trunk and checked
! as baggage to Chicago With all the prominence o.
sui -heading In 'smal caps" we are further I'm.
formed that the wretch who Is supposed 10 have
committed the diabOical crime IN "Ioseph ROsen.
Zweig a Polish Jew." As ''fathfui cnroniciers OF
the time" we should be thankful to YOU PERHAPS
for the efforts Of your panstakng reporter IN
tanning with such comnendable minuteness not only
the nationality OF the culprit but also the religion
he processes, which will no doubt. prove valuable
as a basis TO show the relation existing between
crime, country and supposed conscientious convic-
lions.
be, as matter OF course 70 discrimination,
aud therefore we naturally wonder why 1t
Is you do not always append the like
the names OF all CRIMINALS. For instance.
there are Vanderbilt and his ignorant engineer the
steamer Westleld, who have murdered and manned
for Lille their hundreds, ,and among them number
of Jews and there Is Foster, the carhook mur-
derer of Mr.. Putnam; and from the very issue from
which we quote you say In relation TO :he late
slaughter on the Eas ern Railroad, wherein thirty
persons have thus far lost their lives tnat 1t was
mot an accident, but wlful murder, (all in large
caps and that Nolan, the conductor Of the H.
faled tran was the guilty party, and yet you fail to
tell us what country gave birth to all these mur-
derers. and what religion t) they profess We're
they Catholics, Presbyterans Methodiss, Friends,
Of Christian or heathcn believers 'in the faIth'
whatever that 1872 We assume they certainly were
not Jews, OF 1t would have been blazoned FORTH as
usual.
Come, Mr. Editor do please tell us all about 1t,
for the cry OF ''.he perod' 49, "We want to know ~
and have the goodness to instruct your reporters
give the pubic, in future, the nationality and re
giOn OF all scamps under arrest or committed for
crimes against the law. that this muc.needed in
formation Will enable satstIclans to contribute
matter OF history, the to0tings made up gwen
time and we can then tell with some degree Of ac-
curacy the relative percentage OF crime. We Jews
do not fear the result ana as matter OF course
feel interest In the development Of all the facts
tending TO Tx the crime upon RosenZweIg, If he
really be the fend winch the testimony thus far
seems to Indicate and trust that justice Will be vim
dicated speedily ana IN manner that Will strike
terror TO all such v,le scum OF the earth.
Entertaining the greatest respect and veneration
for the press It nevertheless sometimes occurs to
US as just possible that the Scriptura expression
OF Staying ''with the JawbOne OF an ASST mas alu-
to the rep0rtoral fraternity OF that particular
period, wherein occasionally tney amused them
selves then, as now by abusing some portion OF the
community who happened Tor the time to be In the
minority.
Wno Will enlIgnten us SEMLOCCASIONAL.
WASHINGTON, d. g.. August 29 1871.