The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-12-17
The following communication appeared
in the Marietta Register last week:
MRS Triton oFJACKSOS cor-pyrY


Editor Register: There appears in the Meigs
County Telegraph, of recent date, an editorial
of rather renarkable character 1t is presumed
take it in hand; but there some points
which the present writer may notice, that the
delicacy) may not deem prudent to bring out
IN Iu4: Inc slhcerlty OF the edltor OF the 1ete-
graph is not for a moment questioned. He is a
man of tender feelings. He feels that he has
Indignation keeps pace with his feeling Mrs.
T1lton is a convict in the State prison, on the
charge OF shooting little boy, ten years of age,
on MS way nom school, crossing one of her
\ nelds- L do mol, at this writing, call up the
merits OF Inc case. The mass of people in
jackson believe that Mrs. Tilton is guilty. She
had 1alr trial, anu the sentence of three years
imprisonment may be regarded as light. The
Judge, whether right or wrong, made it light on
account of her age-past sixty.
The editor ofthe Telegraph IS member ofthe
Legislature. he has interviewed" Mrs. Tflton
| in PRISON and in the minds of persons who
| cIuded, it is rather evident that Mr.. Chapman
has succuInbed to skillful martyrs roIe.'
woman" a true expression, but not in the sense
in which he uses it, The editorial referred to
may be used in application for pardon. 1t may
be well to notice few peculiarities of the Tele-
/ graphs line OF sympathy-bearing in mind
that the sympathy is all right if the application
Says the Telegraph: 1.-The arrest of an old
| woman, of apparent sound mind, on the charge
| of shooting an inoffensive little boy, for the
slight act OF walking across portion of her
ppraVity.'' What is there pne new in thisq The
| shooting? The shooting boy? The shooting
!
act ? Why, the editor ofthe Telegraph, inoffen-
sive he is is liable to be shot any day, in Co.
lumbus, by a rough, of that degree of depravi-
ty that makes men delight to shoot just for the
| sake of shooting.
| And when the editor of the Telegraph saw
this woman in the State prison, he writes thus
surrounded by some of the most vile and de-
graded Of her seX-a weak, weak G trembling bling old wo-
nature rose up in rebellion against the lon-
sroas WRONG :nd we then Ir ana ,d there pledged
behalf to undo the same" The italics mine.
Let not the public understand by this that Mrs.
| T1lton is a woman OF rehned feeling, womanly
| Sensibilities, who has not repeatedly threatened
| proVocatlon she may be a weak, trembling
| woman now. She has reason to be. B t hereto
| fore she has rejoiced in coarse, masculine ways.
strengthened enough to handle gun, Chap
| man thought she was too weak for that, pest
,ial to al her & neighoors, a dangerous person; a
evidence in the case, and make out his case
sympathy. With Chapman's examination OF
the evidence on which Mrs. Tilton was convict
vnced that the Quality of Mrs. Titon's n adyo-
Gates mercy is strained. may say, however
that the character of the evidence is such that
Mrs. Tilton's conviction should not be c.Iarac-
terized as a 'monstrous wrong"
The point make is that the editor of the
| Telegraph ''has gone'' Ito use his own words)
''entirely beyond the limits of his personal ac-
thy, the inception of which sympathy was in
an interview with a convict in the State pris-
on. Now he might have gone to hundred
other convictS-"weak and trembling''-con-
victed of crimes which to him would seem in
credible, and exhibiting new phases of dcpravi-
ty. He might pledge himself to all of them
after listening TO their story of "monstrous
ded ;; then overhaul brief account of theil
trial in newspaper, and through the glamour
of his hasty sympathy, pronounce the teStimo
ny inadequate to conviction.
A. PARSONS.
We saw the editorial in the Pomeroy
Telegraph, to which Mr.. Parsons refers
In fact, the paper came to US with the
editorial marked with pen and ink, tc
call our attention to it. But we can as
sure Mr.. Parsons that we shall not takt
the matter in hand. We will have ne
controversy with Mr.. Chapman upol
this or any other subject.
Most of the people in this count,
think that the jury did err that the,
! ought to have found Mrs Tilton guilt,
, of murder in the first degree; but W
: believe that the jury came to the correc
I conclusion. Mrs. Tilton had nothin
against the boy she killed; in fact W
e suppose, from the evidence and the Gil
5 cumstances, that she did not know VIII
he was. She shot at him because he wa
crossing her field, as she..had given publ
notice that she would do so. She pull
lished card in the STANDARD a couple {
years before she did the killing, that sh
would shoot any man or boy who cam
on her premises to steal fruit. She wa
L reckless about the matter. She though
= every one who came upon her premise
was doing so for some improper purpos
: In her own evil heart she thought ever
;, one was dishonest 1t is probable ths
: Chapman may succeed in getting Go
Allen to pardon her, as she is like nearl
Il all the other criminals in the Penitel
tiary, very Jealous Democrat.