The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-16

second degree It was with this hope. fearing it is
said that Mrs Cobb might sacrifice him, that he told
the tale of their love and their crime at her trial
which has made his name loathei and detested
wherever it was heard He is murderer unlike any
of the others trial in this State. II they are
murderers. Bassett hardened in crime in the
earliest years of his life. There no sentiment III
anything that he did; feeling except the hope OF
gain found place in his heart Hayden was man
ii he is a guilty one-whose Hester Prynne
willing to wear the Scarlet Letter for him without
complaining and without revealing his guilt. he
when, at late but repentant hour.
he went up INTO the pillory beside the
so long and so uncomplainingly. Exposure to him
was death--it worse even than the stain of
murder on his soul. II any passion moved the MN
lister to criminal intimacy with Mary stannard 1t was
mere animal passion. None of these not extenuating
circumstances for but motives to crime, is to be I'M
puted to Bishop. He honest man;
simple grocer's clerk in village where gro
GERS clerks are able to hold their heads as
high as the highest and the mghtiest
He was respected much his victims We're, and he
and his accomplish escaped reproach, even after ac-
cording to his story, their guilt began Their
morals do not excuse--a passion such as made even
Abelard and Heloise forget their VOWS. There was
no hope OF gain there no fear of exposure there
was no moving necessity to the taking OF OF his
victims, except his love for the woman he
was anxious to make his wife. and for
whom in his own vulgar phrase. attributed to his
paramour. he "willing to bury the and
the woman who stood between. All the deeper
emotions which excite our wonder. if they do
not compel our admiration and which sometimes,
explain what otherwise would be ineXplicabe, are
dissipated in the vulgarity of man who sacrifices
woman to escape hanging in State where her oath
and his are both necessary to bring him to the gal
lows. And it will be no easy matter now. to
hang Wesley Bishop under the Connecticut statute.
PARTING REFLECTIONS.
is worthy OF remark i'll conclusion that the facts
i'll all these cases remarkable the law What
can be more revolving than murder business
the killing of to procure bodies for sale to the
doctors? Even De Quincy's Murder Fine Art
is outdone by revelation hdeous. What can be
more appalling than acrne where man deliberately
administers poison to his victim then knocks her
down with stone and cuts her throat with his pocket
knife? Even the slow and steathy murder of Charlie
Cobb by his wife and her paramour, fendish and
hideous it was, is not nearly fendish and
hideous such crime. The stoicsm, too which
followed these offences. the nonchaance, the tobacco
smoking the grim TESTING, all part OF the urid
background to lurid picture. TO account for such
phenomena it is necessary look deeper than
social philosophy has yet gone, and to crown the
amazing superstructure OF dehumanized degeneracy
where such things are possible we find the jurymen
who to sit III Judgment the offences of GRIM
inas whose crimes ought to be pondered long and in
secret going out among the multitude to take back
to the jury box the passions and prejudices of the
crowd.