The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-10-13
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK, October ii, 1915.
THE END OF NUISANCE.

New YORK, October ii, 1915.
THE END IF NUISANCE.
"The way of the transgressor is
hard.n Never was this text better
illustrated than in this city Thursday
morning, in the death of Edward
O'Baldwin, the Irish pugilist.
Nh. Ned 0'Baldwin was an Irish
man, who was blest by nature with
a frame six feet seven inches in
heighth, and correspondingly broad.
He would have made a magnificent
ditcher, a superb iruckman, or a
splendid 'longshoreman. But Mr..
O'Baldwin being pugnaciously in
clined, and having met with success
in punching heads in a private way,
blossomed out into a professional,
and followed his countrymen to New
YORK, where be developed into a
most exasperatiDg nuisance. He
was q blatherskite, a cowardly, rut-
family fellow, who became the centre
of a gang of rufiains, all as bad as
himself, except in the matter of inch
es and pounds. He fought prize
fights: he was used in elections by
the Democracy-in short, be became
a bravo of the same type as those
used by demagogues in Italy, only
be used his fists instead Of the still
etto.
For q time Nj. O'Baldwin flourish
ed like a green bay tree. He was
the pet of the short-haired fraternity,
and the dlssolute women of the town
Iavished their smiles upon him, and
life was, in a feverish way, rose-tint-
ed as possible. But the dark days
came. The populaee tired of him,
and dissipation weakened his huge
carcass, so that plenty of younger
men could bang him about. Then
Mr.. O'Ballwin,::to furnish bread for
himself and toget bis liquor at whole
sale prices, opened a bar-room with
another Irishman named FInnell
The speculation did not pay, for
some reason. Probably Mr.. OBS
whiskey was exceptionally bad, or
possibly those who would otherwise
have been customers feared him
when in his cups and wisely kept
away. BE it as it may, Mr.. O'Bald-
win, Wednesday night, appeared to
Mr.. Finnell, and abruptly announced
that be should quit the place. Mr.
Finnell's hot Celtic blood rose at
this summary dissolution, and as il
determined that it should be com
plete, drew bis pistol and planted two
balls in O'Baldwin's body. AS eth
er would have finished the giant,
there was a waste of one cartridge,
which Iregret, for it is a pity that it
could not have missed its aim and
killed some one else in the room.
But We can't have everything to
suit US. Mr.. 0'Baldwin was carried
out, and after lingering twenty-four
hours in great agony, died. Mr.. Fin
nell gave himself up the day after,
and as be does not appear to have
much influence among the Democra-
cy Che had just started bis rum-mill),
their is a cheerful prospect that be
will be hung. It's rather expensive
business, hanging these fellows, but
in the long run it pays.
And speaking of the
LAST END OF P%UGILIsTs,
none of them have ever died happy
or in comfort. Yankee Sullivan cut
his throat in San Francisco to avoid
hanging; Tom Hyre died miserable
and wretched of consumption; Geogh.
egan keeps a miserable rum shop.
Tom Allen ditto-in short, go
through the list. and scarcely one
can be found who did not die of vio-
lenee, or if they escaped that, of ex-
treme poverty. John Morissey, it is
trne, is apparently fourishing, but
end is not yet. There will come
a turn to him some of these days
that will bring him to the bottom of
cup. Decency, my young
is as much the best policy
rs honesty. The man who lives
without labor is not going to have a
very long life or o very pleasant one.
| may put right here that O'Bald-
win, Who had a. good a time as any
If them, served two years in the
Massachusetts, ~Pspitentiary, and as
much o ia >the Moyamensing
Prison, Phiiadcsphia, to say nothing
f innumerable sixty-day terms in
ais and p! sbns 10 various cities. /,
POLITICS. J
The Republican State Cenuai
of New York have sunel
Iope of carrying the State, though /,
fail to see upon what they base it I
he Committee are zealously at /.
FORK, determined to secure the lexis-
ure even, though Tilden, by virtue
I the fraudulent vote always to be i
expected in the city, carries the State. i