Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-31
LETTER FROM NEW YoRR.
NKw YOEK, Jan 18th, 1876.

NEw 1OEK, Jan. 18th, 1876.
EDITOE MONITOR The city seems
to be suffering from al epidemic Of crime
Of al grades. which. during the last few
months. has kept the police court and
the coroner pressed with business, and
50 crowded the State prison at Sing
Sing that the warden, writes that but
few more prisoners can De received Be
side the multitude Of minor offences,
lareenies, defalcatiODs. burglaries, and
the like, the number Of which Is. Of
course, largely attributable to hard
times, the average Of murders for the
winter, 50 far, must Be nearly two Per
week. many Of them being Of special
atrOeity, Murderer Row, as one
line Of cells In the Toubs Is called, Is
but too veil filed three executions
have already occurred in the jail yard,
and numbers more await the rope or eZ-
/ ecutIFe clemeney-that Is. If they are
not decided 70 x u-sJ-tgsazte lunsties,
more to Be pitied than blamed, and
thus avoid conviction altogether. This
insanity dodge has been pushed to such
brzzen length IN the courts Of this State
that the public gorge has begun TO rise
against It 5, and already bill Is under
discussion which vii give judges 10
discretion IN sentencing this large class
Of insane h9mieides. Eh6. under Its
provisions, 20 into immediate c9nfne-
ment IN Al asylum especially provided
/ for their reception, and stay there TIL
they die, beyond the reach Of medical
discharge or gubernatorial pardon The
passage q this bill, if 1t occurs, vii
cover multitude Of legislative sins OF
the part Of our Albany S0lens, and vii
put healthy check On the use Of tao
tics which have many time defraudet
the gzIloEs Of its just dues
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: q this morning, the contents Of vhicE
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statistics 0f such crimes It gives
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