New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-05
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cannot be fairly considered an average speci-
men of the Chicago citizen. 1t is true that
Hanley must have many qualities in them
selves and when properly directed, useful
AND honorable, including the energy and per-
sistence for which Chicago is most justly
renowned. Unfortunately the tendency of John
is to take moral slants, and when he is well
saturated with whisky he finds it relief to
assault and batter his fellow creatures. few
DAVIS ago, for want Of another object, he
operated upon Mrs. Hanley. for which he was
conducted to the statiOn-hOuse. From Its
sweet secluson he wrote to the news
papers, and, in strain of injured inno-
cence, complained of want of polite
ness and genteness on the part of the
policemen. This, on their side has led to
short statement Of Mr. Hanley's record from
1868 to 1874 1t will hardly do to call it check
cred, for there is hardly white enough in 1t
for that sort of pattern. These annals OF an
active life begin with All assault upon police
officer, estimated by the court to be worth go.
Only four months after Mr.. Hanley INDUCED
in disorder to the extent of S5-a pretty bit OF
cheap and minor playfulness. Such second
rate business, however, ill accorded with the
great mans aspirations, and May II, 1869, he
won the proud boon of six months in jair'
for a first-class assault with deadly weapons.
Then the robust record runs on as follows:
July II, 1869, disorderly, 50; July 1S, 1859,
disorderly, SIS; Jan. %, 1870, assault with
deadly weapon Feb. A, 1870, disorderly, s3 ;
March 81, 1872, disOrderly, $40; Nov. 8, 1872,
disorderly, $50; May 20, 1873, disorderly, $40;
Oct. 10, 1878, drunk, So; Oct. "a, 1873, assault
with attempt to kill; Oct. "A, 1873. burglary !;
March B. 1874, vagrancy; and Sept. H. 1914
assault with intent to kill
Though Mr.. Hanley sometimes tries his
hands upon property personal, and OCCASION
ally breaks the statute against inebriety, 1T
will be seen that he finds his chief delight in
violating what Mr.. Alex. Pope calls Heav-
lens first law" He is nothing if not disor-
DERBY, and peace is poison to his soul, which
is always IN arms and eager for the fray.
PhrenOlOglcally, his organ of combativcness
must be mountainous, and his organ OF order
a negative quantity-just "a trace" as the
analytical gentlemen say. He likes to have
things lively, and acquiescence IN anything he
regards as Indicative of pusillanimity. When
there is nobody else to beat, he beats his
wife He is full of reserved force, like Lord
Chatham and other distinguished characters
he does not love the world nor the world him !;
he is swayed by an uncomfortable antag0nlSm
TO existing FORMS and accepting the truth III
n material sense that life is battle, he goes
in to win, and usually does win, in certain
sense. a handsome amount in fines and costs.
Heads. he conceives, were made to be broken,
ewes to be backened, noses to be knocked in,
10 odd nrf 10 nfs
without having read the fOlOs of philosopher
Hobbies, the doctrine that state OF nature is
a state of war. Policemen he regards as med
desome impertinents Hence we are told that
che always fights his best when arrested
He is neither easy to capture nor easy to
keen. Then, when like Napoleon he has found
his st. Helena he begins to write letters, telling
| how dreadfully he has been treated; and he
passes his time in determining whose head he
will disintegrate first when lovely liberty is
| once more his.
Bules there must be in this world and it Is
| equally true that they must be locked up, If
possible and elected to Congress as seldom as
may be- Perhaps if Mr.. Hanley had lived any
| where except in Chicago; il destiny had
guided him early far away from lager and
other liquors; if he had been caught young
and put through course of virtuOus sprouts,
as the saying is, he might have been great
Moral Pugilist, knocking down wrong and as
saulting error, getting madden every moment
with iniquity. and causing the wicked to trem-
BILE for their bones. The Chicago police might
still have locked him up, but it would have
been as a martyr, and future ages would have
spoken of him as one who dared all things to
save that sinful city. But he has chosen the
worser part, and inasmuch as he hits out
without reason and bruises Unfortunately,
we fear that, with all our reverence for his
prowess, we must give up Mr.. John Hanley
as an uncomfortable subject