Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-10-23
PERKINS ON MURDERERs
Eli Thinks They Ought Not, to
Be Killed, but Utilized.
New York Sun.

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1 met d. A. Reardon, of Boston.
yesterday. eMF. .IReafdon is the man
who has starteasthe idea that mur-
derers can be made valuable 20 socie
ty-they ought not to be killed, bat
utilized. -
! Your, Scientific American. article
! is long and exhaustive I said.
4."Please to tell me verbally what you
propose to do with ,murderers y.
| "We1l, s:r, j consider murderers as
livery valuable material. They should
mot be destroyed. They should be
handed over to the physicians, to be
used in performing surgical opera
tons. Why, one good, healthy MUIR
derer, full Of good teeth, having ten
fingers, a pair of bright eyes, two
large, handsome ears, and healthy
nose, could be used by the surgeons
to patch up dozen unfortunate inva-
! lids. -
"Then you propose to use the MUIR
derers for grating purposes?'
. "EXactly. We can engraft a large
piece of skin, finger, or nose.
That is, suppose you have a patient
who loses his nose. Why, you can
just cut off the murderer's nose and
engraft it onto the patient"
"And in case Of man with thin
blood-?"
''Why, we can draw out quart of
blood from the murderer and trans
fuse it. Now, in regard to teeth, YOU
know dentists have been engrafting
teeth from one mouth into another
for years. Garry out my idea, Mr..
Perkins, and every man can have q
fine set of regular teeth, provided it
is good year for muderers and their
teeth pan out we'll"
''Could you engraft an carp
"Certainly. If can engraft a
piece of skin, Why not an ear ? Ears
and noses have been engrafted from
one person to another great many
times, and l think an eye could be
engrafted.''
can eye! Oh, how could you en-
graft the organ Of sight?" L ex-
claimed.
"Well, Mr.. Perkins, you could en-
graft an eye this way. You know an
eye sometimes gets pulled out so as
to hang by single cord or tendon.
Physicians are called to put them
back frequently. Now, to engraft an
eye the murderer would have to Law
close TO the patient. Then the phvs-
ician would pull out his eye and plant
it IN the patients empty socket, where
1t would soon commence TO grow
but wouldn't it be cruel to cut IN
a murderer in pieces, and engraft his
ears, fingers and eyes into another
person." l asked.
'Of course not. Isn't the man
cOndemed TO die! Now, nine murder
ers out of ten, would be glad to lose
their ears, cheeks, fingers and noses,
provided you still keep then alive
If man objected to lose an ear, why
take him out and show him a gibbet,
and he would consider it merciful to
let him off with the ear. In fact. a
man would rather loose three or four
members than'all of them-wouldn't
he! 1t is a postulate in mathematics
that part is not equal to the whole. "
but there wouldn't be enough
murderers TO go round, would there %
YES, l think SO" said NJ. Rear
don, thoughtfully. "You see there's
Texas and Kentucky-they raise q
surplus stock. There's Col. Buford,
OF Kentucky, and Gully, the Yazoo
murderer, who murdered Judge CHS.
holm, and Currie, who murdered the
actor Porter in Texas. Now these
are all three good healthy men, likely
fellows; you might say A No. i
prime murderers. propose to en-.
graft Currie's hands onto Gen. How
ard, Gully's right leg on to General
Sickles, and take General Buford's s
cheek aud epgraft it onto-onto-on-
to
''iou don't mean that you'd en-
graft i: onto me, do you?" said, my
hand clasping my revolver pocket,
"0h, no, there amt room for it
there" .
Gould you do anything with o
murderers moral faculties ?'' inter.
rupted.
"Well, yes. In time / should hope
to be able to transfer his brain and
conscience. Now, Colonel Buford'
conscience would help Ben Butler.
Butler needs it. Most any murder.
er's conscience would improve Gen.
Butler.''
"What would you do with love and
memory?'
"Transfer them too. could take
an old man like Sam Tilden or Simon
Cameron, and fill him full of love and
brighten up his memory so that he
could remember just how he felt kiss
ing Mrs. Oliver while his grand chill.
dren were banging at the door, and
when it comes to backbone-"
what! you don't propose to
transfer an entire backbone ?' asked.
''Certainly. why not? Now, I'd
take Gully's backbone and transfer il
to President Hayes. 1t would be the
making of the president-just what
he needs ...-
"And brains; you would transfer
them, to?" .... .,-- .-
r"Certainly. Now, Buford's brains
should be taken 10 Washington and
be divided out by teaspoonfuis to
each member of congress. There
brains enough in Colonel Buford and
Currie, and Gully to save Sam Cox,
if properly transferred, or to even put
brilliant ideas into the members of the
paragrapher's association, and--''
I '"All right" l said; "that settles
/ it. Consider me a member of your
organization. Put me down for ten
chances in anything calculated TO
amehorate the condition of the Amer
lean newspaper paragrapher. I'd be
willing to become murderer myself,
! If my brain oosld be attefward used
tor such 6 noble purpose-used to
stuff a paragrapher.'' 5t - :
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