The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-08-27
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/ blow up the Liverpool Town Hal
n McGrath, as the worst criminal of Oh
! two, and the chief agent of the organ
!. ization which aims at tcrrorixing Grea
!. Britain by means of dynamite, INA
i been sentenced to penal servitnde 70
E life, while McKevitt is TO underg
I similar Imprisonment for term o
fifteen years. The offence of wlIicI
+ these men were undoubtedly guilt,
was that OF attempting murder and
, design TO damage the public buildin.
: in question, thereby endangering TIL,
| lives of certain innocent persons. Al
nobody happened to be fatally injured
by the explosion, the prisoners maj
think themselves lucky that they were
not standing their trial on the capita
charge; as it was. they owe their cap
ture to the admirable presence of mind
and courage displayed by the Liver
pool policemen, and to their own mis-
cradle poltrooncry. Never was baser
crime perpetrated in q more bungling
and more cowardly fashion, and little
pity can be felt for the wretclles who,
without a thought, were ready TO send
their fellow-creatnres to an awful death
by an unexpected explosion in the
midst of a populous city. Such crimes
as these of the Fenian ssskirmishers"
in England should be put down with
strong hand, however paltry and con-
temptible may be tho men vino are
selected to carry out the designs of
murder and destruction coneocted on
the other side of the Atlantic.
Mr.. Thomas John Halnbley, charged
before the Lord Mayor on Monday
with assaulting two women in rail-
way carriage, would appear to be one
of those ferocions ruffians who, under
the influence of alcohol, are apt to
behave themselves as though possessed
by demons. During the return journey
from South-end to London of an ex-
party to which he, Jane
Daley, Emma Elderfeld, and several
other persons of both sexes belonged,
he suddenly missed his watch, accused
Mrs. Daley of having stolen it, and
forthwith proceeded to attack her in
the most brutal manner. Having torn
open her dress and pulled out hand
ful of her hair by the roots, he insisted
hat she, as well as her companion,
Mrs. Elderfeld, should strip to the
skin, in order that their clothes might
be thoroughly searched for the watch;
and the terrified women, piteously
for mercy, actually complied
with this outrageous exaction, under
threat of being 1knifed" should they
refuse to submit. Meanwhile, Iambley
struck Mrs. Ederfeld's baby, threatened
TO throw it out of the window, and
tried to jump upon it. The helpless
little creature had to be hidden under |
the seat of the carriage to save it from
his fury. Mrs. Elderfcld gave the
alarm by pulling the bell communi-
eating with the guards van and by
screaming murder!" with all her
might; and Mrs. Daley's agony of
alarm was such that she scrambled out
of the carriage on to the footboard,
where she remained, hanging on by the
door handle, until the train reached the
London terminus. Hambley's conduct
speaks for itself. Itwere idletto waste
terms of reprobation upon such a mis-
creant. But what shall be said of his
holiday-make the Englishmen
who stood by and looked on while two
inoffensise Young wsmen were being
subjected by him to dangerous violence
and abominable indignity' Not one
of these base towards, II seems, made
any attempt to intervene between Ham
hey aud his wretched victims. OF |
such craven-heartcd poltroons it is not
too much to say that they were more
utterly despicable than the savage
monster whose cruelty they thus pusil-
lanimonsIy condoned.