The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-07

Every once in about so many weeks or
months. the flood gates of vice seem TO DC
upliftcd in New York, and the city de
luged with crime. Criminals OF the high
est and lowest degree ply their trade with
seeming immunity. commit murder here,
burglarize bank or store there, rob a
helated person on the street and escape
with their booty. The more bold and dar-
ing the crime the less liability there Seems
to be for detection. Commencing with thc
Bur6ell murder, or even fan back OF ihHt,
and running along down to the Nathan
homicide, and from thence to the present
day: each year and month adds 10 The
number of what are known as mysterious
crimes, to the perpetrators OF which not
the least clue can be obtained Occasion
ally, the community is startled by some
crime Of extraordinary horror, or Of I'M
usual audacity, and the city press, as with
one accord, commence &c. denouncc the in
efficiency of the police force, and demand
n more rigid enforcement Of all the means
and appliances which the law has placed
in theiI hands for the detection and pun
shment Of criminals The country press
take up the refrain, lament the ineiliciency
of the courts and officers of the great en-
porium of the country, and, like the Phar-
isccs, thank God that we. in the country,
are not like our brethren in the city. FOL
getting the admonition Judge not that
We be not judged" we are ever ready to vol
unteer our advice in.the premises, always
sure that our officers could, il the oppor-
tunity was only afforded them, ferret Uut
these criminals and bring them TO n speedy
and condign punishment. Perhaps we
could, hut it is more than doubtful. Let
as, however, see If we are not all ri sea in
This NATTER il there is any real cause of
complaint; or If, on the other hand, the
achievements of the police Of New York
in the detection OF crime and the arrest Of
criminals are not actually u matter of Won
der and congratulation.
Look at it N 1mcnt. New York city
is one vast wilderness, 50 to speak There
is no place In America where a stranger is
so utterly forlorn and alone. How easy it
ia, as most Of us know by personal expert
encc, to loose oneself in such o vast sea OF
humanity as, almost every hour of the day
and night floods her streets. Take the vast
forests of houses, and among or in which
shall "A search be made for a suspected Grim
innI 'phora ,,uil;nit. 10 nV;,-oc, wan
the exception of few notorious criminals
what do, what can the police know IN ref
erencc to the vast population of the city
Where one may live for decades Of year.
without knowing the names, faces, pccul
laltics or pursuits Of his neighbor how car
small police force he able TO pick out th,
perpctratOr of n gwen crime SuppOsing
for instance, that the Nathan murderer ha(
been one of the msnamed "better classes,
what is or was thcre-unless ii might be {
proyidential interference--to point him on
rs the guilty MANI Let the most accural,
and observing man the country can pro
tluce endeavor 10 find friend and stranger
in that living maelstrOm, what are In
chances of discovery; As We have said
the one is swallowed up in the many
Crimes are not always unrayeled in Yer
mont, where every man is known to hi
neighbor, and, with the exception of SOM
half dozen Of our larger villages,
stranger is at once an object Of curiosity
In Vermont, VIC have population OF fifty
one over three hundred and thirty and
half millions, and these men, Ewomen an,
children inhabit ten thousand two hundre,
square miles of land. Every one can Sc
at a glance that the state is very sparsel,
settled; in fact, having, upon an average
Traction over thirty-two men, women an,
children to every square mile of land, 0
one to every twenty acres. This is I'll
average of Vermont, taking all of Our vii
lagos, cities, towns, farms, ETC., there i
twenty acres of land for each individual O
the population. 1t surely ought to be cas-