Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-20
poses that all property held by Jews shall be

poses that all property held by Jews shall be confscated and employed as help toward the solution of the social difficulties of the time He suggests that all the governments of Europe should unite in ia free Interna- tional convention,' so to establish com mon and uniform method of settling the Jewish difficulty. Any State which refuses to take part in this alliance is to be political ly and socially accommodated by the other States, declared common foe of the Chris tian peoples, and be compelled to execute the decree of Christian Europe! The entire Jewish body is to be put under immediate State supervision, and all Jews and Jewesses are to be compelled to work in factories or in the cultivation of waste lands. "It is the universal complaint" writes Herr Lempens, ''that the Jew is everywhere shy of hard, physical work he is too idle to be a laborer. Moses discovered this long ago, and pointed out the right means of curing him of this evil Deuteronomy xxx, ?, 3. He appointed the Nikkovet, the whip with one long thong and two shorter thongs. Moses knew them; he saw clearly what they needed" If Herr Lempens is not already lunatic he is in a ta1r way or becoming one.
 King and Hamilton, two convicts in New York prison, quarreled about the political situation soon after the shooting of President Garfield, and King killed Hamilton with an axe. King was brought to trial for the mur- der. About an hour and half only sufficed for the testimony and arguments and the jury then rafi~oa ta do1i oh a considerable time, and at length returned and asked the judge to give explanations of the difference between the first and second degrees of murder. This evinced, of course, that there were members of the jury inclined to pronounce the killing murder in the sec ond degree. The punishment of the first de- gree of murder is death of the second de- gree, imprisonment for life Now the sen- tence under which King was already impris- oned was to imprisonment for life for pre- vious murder. Therefore verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree would have been of slight importance to him; it could, at most, only have destroyed such chance as he might have of receiving pardon from his first sentence. As the judge was beginning to answer the question of the jury the pris-
  oner startled everyone in the court room by the following protest: ''Your Honor and gen. tlenen of the jury, this was not murder in the second degree It was a deliberate and premeditated murder. I know that I have done wrong, that ought to confess the | truth and that ought to be hanged" Here the prisoners counsel tried in vain to silence him. ''No,' continued King, ''I have done wrong. It is my duty to confess it. and I cannot help doing so. cannot keep still. plead guilty to murder in the first degree. It was fifteen minutes from the time I struck the first blow with the axe until struck him the second time, and all this time I kept thinking will finish this man. If this is not premeditated murder what is it {? I have al- ready killed two men. What is my life to me? The life of either of those two men whom I have killed is worth a dozen of l mine" The jury retired, but soon returned with a verdict of guilty of murder in the | first degree and King was sentenced to be | hung November 4th. |