New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-24
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but it does not follow that every calm Will
be succeeded by a storm, yet the quletnesS
and seeming Indifference Of our citizens at
the unusual number Of crimes OF every
shade which have been committed IN TINS
city within the last few months, either pre-
sapea breeze of no small velocity, or else
they have become more Indifferent than it's
hardly possible for law abiding citizens and
taxnavers to become Really, we are in the
midst of criminal epidemic, and every
BODY has the monomania, from the might
hawk" who "rolls drunk" to the high
toned supreme judge who makes It
specially to reverse decisions on mere tech
nicaities overlooked by appellants and
omitted in their bill of exceptions. Our
criminal calendar is longer than the moral
law is popularity supposed to have been.
Shocking crimes have been succeeded by
deeds Of greater atrocity, until the public
appetite has almost become SO NOR
bid as 20 be no longer shocked
at the most disgusting details Of
lbidinous lust and treacherous and cold
blooded N urdegs. Having established %
precedent in acquitting woman who muY-
dcred her paramount tor doing her tancied
wrong, it seems difficult 70 convict any one
who has money, and more difficult still TO get
O. sen tence executed, as long as the Supreme
Court can find small Technicality, or the
prise ner command the "outside influence"
and muster sufficient courage 10 break Jail,
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verdict without waiting to know the length
of his sentence.
1t is enormously supposed that "human
nature is the same the world over" it varies
according to latitude in this portion Of our
unboundcd continent. In an adjoining
county woman became tired Of her lover,
with whom she had been cohabiting, which
was a matter of general gossip, and married
another man. This excited his jealousy,
and he publicly boosted Of his intimacy
with her. This caused separation, when
she waylaid her traducer, and, with her
fathers shotgun, promptly filled his body
with buckshot. He fell q corpse, not know
ing what killed him. She admitted the
crime, did not pleat insanity, but was ac-
quitted-on what grounds the jury did not
take the trouble 20 state. In this city an
inhuman wretch who had murdered one
wife, attempted the life of the second, is
placed on trial for numbering his mistress,
by cutting her throat while asleep and then
stabbing her half dozen times, which act
is murder, but the Jury found him guilty of
murder in the second degree" The jury
considered this a severe verdict.
A Chinaman goes into the wash-house of
a fellow-countryman, attacks and beats
him to death with an iron bar, and is ac-
quilted on She ground OF self-defense,
though il was shown that the deceased was
totally unarmed az tie time. This can be
accounted for only on the hypothesis that a
live Chinaman is worth more Ito The com
pany he is seEving) than a dead one. and
''whats the odds, anyhow 4
a bawdyhouse pimp, 10 o jealous fit,
stranglcs the woman on the wages Of whose
sin he had been living. The emotional in
sanity" dodge being exhausted, and ''self-
defense" little TOO ''gauzyo' an aibI is ge-
sorted to.
In our neighboring and moral city, Sacra-
nentO, man is ON trial for numbering and
robbing % woman. The iewelry of this
woman was also taken from her person
when she was straDgled 20 death, and our
murderer charges the Grime-a very in
geniOus d0dge-upon the Sacramento mur-
dsrer; Whereat the latter has gone as crazy
as u March hare. 1T ID supposed that his
counsel will retaliate by attempting to sad
| die both the murders upon the former
A ship captain, by outrageous and inhu
man conduct to % lady passenger, causes
her death. The case is dismissed without
even being referred to the grand jury, and
he sails TO distant port free, while his vic
tim sleeps In heS watery grave-"busied al
sea"
A deserving soldier is arrested by our de
tective police authorities at the instigation
Of the consul OF @ power with which we
| have no extradltiOn treaty, and S37 ,0Ot
| stolen government money is taken from his
person and placed in bank TO their indiyi
! dual accounts He is offered a certain por
! ton Of it back if he will leave the country
| and let them divide the balance in peace
| This he refuses and brings suit for the re
| Covery of his money and damages, but is
| compelled to stop proceedings for the lack
Of funds to fee the lawyers, and he now stir
cross-legged on big square table anc
swings tailors goose" in a second-clast
| shop in an obscure portion OF the city Az
| he has no more money, he is no Longer
molested, the officers having since disc0v
cred that they have no authority" in the
premises.
A young Russian girl Of the tender age
of thirteen appears before the police cour
and charges her lover with lass0ing her
| Just like they do Wild mustangs on Tex4s
! prairies, while TOUT for walk one beautifn
evening and committing o most shameful
outrage on her person, and that, too, atte
having gagged and bound her and carried
her through the most crowded thorough
fares, and in street cars, 10 remote par
of the city. The doubling judge gave he
assaiIant the benefit Of his doubt, and dis
missed the case as too improbable.
An incarnate tiend sets fire to his owl
liquor saloon, in order to recover the insur
. ance thereon. He saturateS the establish
ment with kerosene oil, lights the prepared
| taper, and securely bars the only stairway
leading to a lodging house overhead. Tn
fire is extnguished in the mick Of time,
and IAN entire block of frame houses save
from distinctions and many human being
from a tragic death. And he was acqutte
for the want Of another ''cOnnectlng link i
the chain of circumstantial evidence"
Another Chinaman is convicted Of tn
| crime of attempting to detace the tacla
features Of fellow-cOuntrym by throw
| ing viUriol upon him. Counsel moved a
arrest Of judgment on the ground OF dt
fective Indictment, in that the vitri0l wa
| not thrown upon his Johns statutory pei
sor, but upon his clothing (which, doub
less, was a greater otfcnse III Johns eye
The motion was allowed and the matter II
tcrred to another grand jury. This IS bring
inc things down to pretty fine legal point