The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-11

condition OF these unAofsunate people In the
far East of Europe; public sympathy has beer
evoked; and this attention must be kept ar
and this sympathy must not be allowed to COO
until some satisfactory arrangement is made
by which complete protection shall be secured
to the Jews Of Ronmania in the exercise of all
their rights-civil and religious. In the name
OF our many Jewish fellow citizens, in the
name OF civil and religious liberty, in the
name OF that modern civilization of which we
are all SO proud, the demand must be made
that persecution for religions sake shall cease.
this persecution Is not ended, and ended al
once, the blame must lie at the door Of the
great Powers Of Europe. HaaE ssa .f
Pope Jones OF Randalls Island and the
Bey-Keeper-Killer. se
Justus Dunn, Juvenile delinquent of some
sixteen winters, was placed on trial yesterday
for the granddaughter of Samuel Calvert,
keeper in the House Of Refuge, which is stu
ated on Randall's Island, and whose inmates
are under the temporal and spiritual dominion
of Pope Jones. The HERALD few weeks
ago made an inquiry into the manner in
which Pope Jones administered the institution,
and the facts as published drew forth MANY
profound comments on the patent theology of
that insulated Pope. The subject has again
been opened in this trial before Judge Bedford,
and, thanks to His Honor ruling in the case,
we shall have it plentfully ventilated under the
oath Of Pope Jones and others of less notoriety
The offence with which this sad boy is charged
Is serious one. Calvert was found
bleeding on the tier above the hall
one evening in March Ave feet from the
boys cell and died few hours after
from the loss Of blood ebbing through two
wounds above the knee joint, which the juve-
nile delinquent is accused Of infiotng. It is a
gloomy picture-a poor promise for better
manhood if the young goats under the care Of
Pope Jones learn no better than this furious
style of butting at their keepers until
the keeper dies under the operation. This
is exactly the phase under which the
public will regard it. We are not likely to
waste much sympathy upon this youth of the
ready penknife, but if the system of Pope
Jones in the House of Refuge be one that bru-
talizes and demoralizes iins.tsed IF reforming
that carefully develops the bad and let's
the good in young human nature ooze
out under the STRONG pressure Of official
tyranny, "a the continuity will not
wonder that juvenile delinquents should
grow into boy murderers, and will not blame
the boys 50 much as the system. Five hun
dred boys in the Refuge, all going the same
way, too. Is this possiblea Revolt after re-
volt has occurred there, and the cells in the
Tombs now contain number of boys, who
inveigh bitterly against the inhuman treat
ment that transformed them into young
devils. Now, the gravest point in the
matter lies in the fact that at four.
teen and fifteen years Of age these
boys. trained into inhumanity and ferocity, are
let loose upon society, and what was at first q
Child Of bod tendencies comes out candidate
for the gallows and the convict garb through
the sinister paths Of crime. Not the least part
of the Indictment against Pope Jones will be
the management Of the religious part Of the
the training. What the HERALD has already
published on this subject is now confirmed
by Pope Jones himself on the stand,
and more absurd system Of deodorizing
religion could not we'll be imagined. The
Methodist parson who administers spiritually
to the entire House of Refuge is not q Method
ist at all when he does it. When he breaches
to the young delinquents he becomes
an unsectarian Qgaels Of the Church
of Pope Jones, and gives doses Of
the Bible in ''broad truths" that
must serve Protestant, Papist and Israelite
alike. We shall hear more of the vagaries Of
this House of Refuge. Pope Jones, and in
dulge the hope that when the truth is all
known, there will be speedy change for the
better. Oddly enough, and as if the whim-
steal fates were watching the events, we have
only to wish, in the name of the boy whose
name begins this article, to see justice done.
The Horrible Murder I'm Division Street.
We are becoming SO used to the reign of
rufianism that it requires some outrage of I'M
usual barbarity to thoroughly arouse our indig-
nation. But even the @eeksst citizen will be
Of opinion that the murder Of Augustus Brown,
on Saturday night, ought to be followed by
vigorous action looking towards the suppress
sion of rowdyisln. It will not do to allow
gangs of loafng ruf6ans to assemble at the
street corners and insult peaceable passers-by,
AS we have before pointed out, these assem-
blages are constantly leading to murder and
robbery The judicial authorities are as
much to blame in this matter as are the police,
for the cure for this crying evil is very simple.
Instead of allowing members of gangs to come
into court and swear ON abb, every man
known to have been present OF the time of
murder ought to be held as an accessory, un-
less he gives such information as will aid the
cause Of justice. So long as ruAaans can find
immunity from the law by swearing for each
other the respectable classes Of the community
will always be at the mercy of the scum of our
population Murder succeeds murder with
alarming rapidity in our midst, and unless the
law cai1 afford thss citizen g better protection
-. ~ ,n,.esap4 tho citizens will he