The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-12
THE MURDER OF YOUNG RoUX.

Thett is no Disgusting the fact that New
Orleans has been the scene Of some OF TN
most hideCus aid revolving murders tina
have ever been recorded in the annals
crime We have fairly rivaled New forl
and Philadelphia, and we fear that tn
dastar,lly and horrible murder of young
Roux last night, by some unknown assassin
will place us in position to contest witt
Boston herself, the claim Of the most fou
an unnatural deed that has ever shocked
humanity.
It may be that the murder OF Parkman by
DIR. Webster was more cruelty cold and re
pulsive than the assassination OF young
Roux, it may be that the fiendislf cunning
and scientific knowledge brought to- bear by
Webster to dispose of the BODY Of his victim
are peculiarly calculated to freeze the blood
and cause the very pusations Of the heart
| to cease in contemplation Of the horrid deed,
but the murder last night, SO far at least as
we can Judge from the circumstances as f'7y-
nished, was such as might have occurred i'm
Italy during the dark ages, or in Spain
during the Inqllisition. 1t was Borgia-like.
ccwardly and sllls1leriDgly repulsive in
every particular.
Apparently she young and handsome vic
tim was murdered by a friend, or at least by
fiend who pretended to be s1reh, and who,
even when he fired the fatal shot, was look
ling into the face Of his doomed companion
with smile on his face and one arm locked
in his infriendly and familiar manner. That
at such moment as,this, while some jest,
half uttered was upon the lips Of the DOOM
ed man, his friend, the man upon whose arm
he was leaning, and i'm whom he evidently
placed the utmost confidence, sho,sld have
killed him, is. most uunat ursil and most mon
strO,ls
The thought that a. creature capable of
such a deed is at large in the city, is
cause for general alarm,. and every man in
the community should exert himself to
have the murderer hunted down and
brought to Justice. Bat then comes the
reflection, "What will it avail to have this
man 20 through the mocke,N Of a trial land
either found mot gniity' by purchased
jury. or romanded for a brief term to the
Penitentiary, to be released even before
that term shall expire, if rot instantly by
the man who by judicial crime was ena-
bed, to seize the Executive office OF the
State, and one of whose fa,vOrite pasTsmes
is releasing from prison tie mnrtlerers and
thieves condemned by the Criminal Court"
The rule of Kellogg, it would seem, means
license to murder, and while he thought it a.
great outrage for pistol to go off in his wi
cinity. and wanted two innocent gentlemen
hanged for it, the murder otctizens doesnot
specially concern him. Wegreatly fear that
until louisiana shall be ritisof the irrespen
sble, impecul,ious and characterless horde |
who have seized possession Of her and WHO
hold her in their mercilessclutches we shall
until even Boston shall be left far
behind in the race of crime. So long as Mr.
Kellogg INDUCES in the shameful practice OF
liberating murderers, he will be and should !
be held responsible for every murder that
OCCURS for he makes of jury trials a, mock
ery, and gives to every villain licsnse to
kill.