The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-05-19

7 anu UdIheIS, lelll peIdUcS men and
soakers, priests and sinners,-all
partake of the general crime. If a
congregation on one of our fashion
able avenues have fifty thousand
dollars to put up church, they will
contract for one worth a quarter of
million. If hod-carrier wants a
coat and has five dollars, he buys
one worth ten; the banker with an
income of ten thousand dollars a
year, spends twenty-five; and
hence it is that every day brings to
light some new and shocking de-
talcation. Last week ex-Mayor
Lambert of Brooklyn proved de-
faulter of the trust fund of his own
sister and her orphan children. He
had squandered away eighty thou
sand dollars; he was a deacon and
trustee of DR.. Cuyler's church, and
was making long prayers while he
was robbing the widow and the
orphan. Last week the wrctched
man made a public confession of
his crime; but that will not atone
for the widows and the orphans
ruin.
/ sometimes ask myself if we are
greatly benefited by our boasted
civilization, Within the past week
atrocities have been perpetrated in
New York right under the nose of
the Police Commissioners, and
within pistol-shot of the marble
palace in which they hold their
councils, that would have shocked
the savage Bashi -Bazouks who raw
ished Bulgaria.
A poor family by the name Of
Connor live in a wretcbed neighbor-
hood only a block or two from
! Broadway it consists Of a father,
mother, daughter about eighteen
years Of age, and boy about twelve.
The father and son were away the
other night trying TO earn a few
pennies to keep them from starving,
and in their absence their house
was broken into by four brutal ruff
fans. The mother and daughter
were foully outraged and left for
dead upou the floor, and when the
brutes departed they set fire to the
old woman's clothes, hoping to
burn her to death. The screams of
the terrified and agonized woman
rang through the neighborhood, but
no hand was raised 20 save them,
though the pltiful cry might well
have disturbed the watchful Com
missioners as they sat over their
midnight lunch Of deviled crabs
and champagne. The father, at
last, reached his wretched home to
find his wife dying; he notified the
police, but they took no notice of
him he was sent from court to
court, and at the end of four weeks
succeeded in getting one of the ruff
fans arrested and convicted, and
the Judge sentenced him to three
months in the penitentary,-less
punishment than he would have re-
ceiyed if he had broken a pane Of
glass in a shop window, or stolen a
sixpeney loaf from the bakers. Only
a few weeks ago, Judge Hackett
sentenced man to seven years in
the States prison for stealing a
dollar,-and this worse than mur-
der is let off with a merely nominal
punishment!
a Brooklyn girl visiting New
York was dragged from the streets
by a villainous Italian, and, after be-
ing cruelty abused for four days. du-
Which time she was kept locked up
in dark room, her prison was dis
covered by benevolent missionary;
and, more dead than alive, she was
restored to her widowed mother.
Sudden and mysterious disap-
pearances are an every day occur
renee. In the past sixty days near
ly seventy persons have disappeared,
OF whom no trace remains on earth.
Two weeks ago a man stepped out
OF his house to get a paper, and
never came back. A well-known
resident Of Brooklyn wentto church
a week ago last Sunday, and no one
has seen him since. Another we'll
known citizen started from New
York for his home in Brooklyn, and
he never arrived there. All of these
people were old men, well to-do,
not financially embarrassed, of the
most pleasant domestic associations,
and apparently having everything