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The Result of the Malley Trial.

The acuuittal OF the three defendants In the
MALLEY case was right. To persons outside
the State of Connecticut the evidence that
JENNIE CRAMER had been murdered at all
has always seemed very slight and the evil
dence that the defendants, or either Of them,
killed her appeared scarcely sufficient to
warrant their indictment. The verdict OF
not guilty was expected from the first, and
was certain when the prosecution rested.
We think the defence might safely have
adopted the course advised by Mr.. LEWIS G..
CASSIDY of Philadelphia, and allowed the
case to go to the jury without putting in any
testimony.
So far, then, as mans law against murder
is concerned, JAMES MALLEY, Jr., WALTER T..
MALLEY, and BLANCHE DOUGLAS have right
fully been pronounced guiltless. But that
their wicked conduct brought JENNIE Ora
MER to her death, although not so as to
make them legally responsible for it, cannot
be doubted by those who have followed the
testimony on the trial.
They leagued themselves together to ruin
virtuous girl. Concede that they had no
idea of killing her-they conspired to do
what an honest woman would dread more
than death They made q courtesan the active
agent Of their conspiracy, and even intro
duced her to the home and mother OF the
victim. A more detestable or depraved piece
of villainy never disgraced civilized COM
munity.
They have gone forth from the court room
acquitted of murder, but branded for life
with the shame of crime that is quite as
black, though legally less heinous.
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An Important Change in Our Criminal
Courts.

The Court OF Oyer and Termincr is the
highest court of original criminal jurisdic-
ton in the several counties of this State.
Formerly it was always held by more than
one Judge. In the city of New York, how
ever, the Associate Judges, who were mem
bers Of the Board OF Aldermen, were long
since dispensed with; and here the Court of
Oyer and Termincr has been held for many
years by single Justice of the Supreme
Court sitting alone
In all the other counties the Associate JUS
ticcs have been retained until now. Thus,
the code of criminal procedure passed year
ago provided that in counties other than the
city and county of New York Court of Oyer
and Tcrmincr should be composed of JUS
tice Of the Supreme Court, who must pre-
side, with any two of the following officers:
The County Judge and the Justices of the
Sessions of the county. The Justices of the
Sessions are simply Justices OF the Peace
designated to sit in the Court of Sessions.
This section has been amended by an act of
| the Legislature, which has just received the
approval OF the Governor, so that it now
reads as follows Sec. 90. A Court OF Oyer
and Terminer is held by n Justice of the Su-
preme Court without an associate"
| BY this enactment the constitution of the
| court is made the same all over the State
The constitutional power of the Legisla-
| ture to make the change is established by a
decision of the Court of Appeals. With the
single exception that the Justice OF the SUI
| premc Court must be a member of the Oyer
and Tcrmncr and preside there the whole
subject of the organization of the court is de-
clared to be still with the Legislature. The
Legislature, according to the Court of APP
peals, may associate other judicial officers
with the presiding Justice, OF provide for
Commissioners to sit with him, or allow him
to preside without assistants or associates,
making him the sole Judge Of the court.
The last of these alternatives has been
adopted, and, as we are inclined to think,
wisely adopted. Ono Judge is enough to pre-
side over the deliberations of jury. In
theory and sometimes in practice, two JUS
ticcs OF the Peace, constituting the majority
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fully believe Ne viii attempt to do co. shudder a. the
scandal Of any police proceedings, that fear would
utterly ruin my reputation; and although have tried
hard to earn enough to engage lawyer have not been
able to do 30.
have stated hepitul story but not the thousAndh
part Of the sickenng details and will beg advice
"a wRErcHED WOMAN"
OF course the thing for her to do is to leave
the man at once. Fortunately, in her case
there seem to be no children to complicate
the matter, and 1t is comparatively easy for
her to abandon her home. The other women
who tell stories so like hers are moth
ers, whose first thought Is OF what Is best
for their young ones. who not only have
wretchos for fathers, but whose careers may
bo marred II the facts concerning the fraud
ulent marriages are made public.
Our correspondent asks us II 1t would be
advisable for her to advertise for a loan, as
she sees that some women do. But to do
that would be to give the impression that
she was a disreputable character. Her ad-
vertisement would only DO responded to un-
der that supposition, and she would be likely
to fall into the hands Of another scoundrel.
That Is not the way for an honest woman to
get money. 1t is only o method devised by
the dissoute.
If, however, she was once able to make O
thousand dollars year, she ought not to
fail to earn enough now for her support. Nor
need she fear that her husband would do her
the bodily harm he threatens II she left him.
He would be too afraid OF exposure for that.
But IL she continues to have the fear, let her
state her case to Police Justice. Exposure
is not disgrace for her, since she has done
nothing disgraceful. She has only been de-
ceived, like good many other women.
Her case and the others Of which we have
spoken are only a few of the many which
are described to us by correspondents. 1t is
evident that these fraudulent marriages are
frequent. And why should they not be so when
marriages can be SO easily contracted in New
York; All that Is necessary Is to go to a
minister, and ask him to perform the cere-
mony. No certificate is required from the
pair, and the minister knows nothing what
ever about them. He simply pronounces
them man and wife, and takes his fee, per-
haps never even recording the marriage. OF
course, under such circumstances fraud is
easy. And by the time the fraud is discov-
cred by the wife, perhaps she has baby, and
breads to expose the bigamy.
AS we have before said, the divorce laws OF
New York are as strict as they can be made,
riage laws need to be more precise. There
should be more efficient safeguards against
fraud and imposition and marriage records
should be as complete and accessible as the
registry Of deeds
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A ScandalOus Abuse of Power in the
House of Commons.

The House Of Commons adjourned last
night after continuous session OF thirty
two hours, in the course Of which the last
fourteen clauses Of the Repression bill were
passed in committee, and the whole measure
was reported in the House. The motives Of
the Ministry for wishing to expedite Irish
legislation are Ineligible enough in view of
the Egyptian crisis, and the necessity of con-
centrating the energies Of the Government ON
foreign affairs accounts for the support re-
ceived from the Conservative opposition.
But no pressure, however urgent resulting
from Mr. GLADsToNE's mismanagement of
foreign politics can justify the fragrant
breach of constitutional rights committed by
the Chairman in eXpelling twenty-five
members of the Irish party, none of whom
seem to have exceeded their legitimate
powers, and some Of whom were absent at
tho time when the alleged obstruction was
offered.
The conflict arose over the seventeenth
clause of the bill, which provides that when
ever an extra force Of constabulary is re-
quired in a particular district, the pay Of
such officers shall be chargcable upon the oc-
cupants Of land, and moreover, that com
pensation for any crimes committed shall
be made by the tenants residing in such dis
trict. This Is in effect q revival of the old
ADglo-Saxon rule by which the kinsmcn and
neighbors Of criminal were mulcted in
blood money for his offence. 1t is plain
enough that no civilized community that
had the power to protect itself would tocr-
ate a recourse to such a barbarous kind of
justice, which makes the innocent suffer for
the guilty, and aims to transform every citi-
zen into policeman. No British Minister
would dare TO propose such a law for England
or Scotland, and Mr. PARNELL and his asso.
ciates would have been grossly recreant to
their obvious duty had they failed to resist
its enactment by all legitimate weapons OF
parliamentary opposition,
1t docs not appear, however, that during
the session held throughout Friday nigh,
Mr.. PARNELL and his colleagues rcsorted tC
such purely obstructive measures rs motions
to report progress or that the Chairman
leave the chair. On tho contrary, every one
OF their motions took the form Of substan
tive amendments, which had they been sup
ported by the Conservatives would have
been deemed perfectly reasonable, ant
which excited the wrath Of the House merely
because they happened to express the scnti
mcnts Of only Il small minority. The facts tina
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At commemoration at Oxford, yesterday.
June IA, Mr. Robert Browning was the thri distn.
gushed stranger to be introduced by the Public Orator
The cheering which welcomed this great poet very
general but the appreciation Of his genius did not pre-
vent the sportive undergraduates from pairing little
surprise for the author OF Reelection Nghtcap Coun
try" This nothing less than the appearance OF a
large concashsped cap with ribbons and tassels and
made OF silk or SATIN and suspended by string from
one OF the galleries.
Nj Browning had taken his place among the
newly elected members of Convocaon than this ridcu.
lous nghtcap foated gracefully down the end OF it's
string and settled the head the shoulders Of the
asonshed bard the incident produced hearty
laughter, in which Mr. Browning himself Joined with
great good humor
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Tapestry Held to he Real Estate.


Yesterday June IA in Chancery. before Mr.
Justice Nay, in an action by the administrators Of the
estate of the late Mr. George Nclsun OF Cadehy in Lin
cOnsirc, who died interstate, curious question
as to whether some ancient tapestry which had been
purchased by his father from the Ncneage family was
personally and belonged to his Of Kin or formed
part OF the freehold and Went to his heir at law.
from the evidence that this tapestry which
was SAID TO be worth upward OF ElOn, was hung in two
of the rooms at Caiehy, and stretched pieces
or wood which were fixed TO the walls and further
kept in position by cornice the ceiling and the skirt
ing at the oOr OF the rooms The portions OF the walls
OF the two rooms not covered by tapestry panred
in wood and the spaces hed by the tapestry appeared
to have been left unpaneltd for the purpose Of
ing the tapestry and 1t was stated that the tapestry
could be easily removed without injury to the fabric
other parts OF the rooms
Mr.. Justice Kay said that, as the tapestry in n
frame, fixed to the walls OF the house 1t impossible
not to regard as fixed decoration OF character
unct from movable Chatvl. AMI his lordsiIp accord,
ingly decided that it fixture not sepRrahlc from
the tenement and such belonged to the heir law MS
part of the inheritance.
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Not an AdmIrer Of England.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-ST: England
will send 10000 soldiers, announced by cable the
other day, to Egypt elsewhere, for the simple but
sufficient reason that. outside the British Islands
such force.
Secondly she will not land any number OF soldiers in
Egypt unless she caJole France TO send a much
larger force TO save the mighty Brons from annhia
ton as In the Crimea
Thirdly, any force that England single handed could
send to Egypt be thoroughly beaten the Egy ptan
troops under Arab Pasha, aud the knowledge OF this
fact is shared alike BY England Egypt and all the
OF the world
And, finally England is not great military power,
and America IL the only nation great small civilized
savage, that still gives credence to that
exploded sham and permits the super grauIiOse Brtou
to kick aud buffet her at will. Full PRlvATs.
lunn 30
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Public SCHOOLS In Kentucky.

The cowardly Kentucky Legislature provided
Tor popular vote ON law eQuaElug the distribution
OF school money among white and black children but IL
IL suggested that under decision OF the Federal court
proper division can he compelled, whether the state
adopts civilized law or not
There about 600 school districts in the State hut
In not one half of them schools supported First
class common schools are found IN only half dozen To-
cAlities IN other places wretched urctcnCcs made
for few weeks in the year with ignorant teachers ana
thedeclaratOn is sOlcnnly made that whole counties
too poor to support schools at all
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-07-02

There must be an interesting lot OF police
men in Brooklyn for in q force Of 475 members
there were 507S days lost last year. equal
to nearly fourteen years service Of one man.
There were however. but seven funerals out
Of about 1875 cases Of sickness in the force.
which shows that the death rate is small. The
enumeration OF the diseases that attacked the
policemen is most amusing. Six Of them were
affected with govt. twenty-one with dyspepsia.
and twenty with dipsomania. One had hay
fever. twenty-seven had lumbaRo. thirty-two
had Quinsy, two were frostbitten two are tabled
under the head OF bites. thirty-two had the
collie. sixty-eight had malaria. and 1875 we're
excused from duty for slight ailments. which
may include an affection Of the heart some-
thing like that Of the flirting policeman. BowEs.
Ten had sciatica. thirty had sprains. eleven
had vertigo. thirty-three had unspecihed in
juries not including two who had gunshot
wounds. This year one Of the force dislocated
his fshoulder while yawning and stretching
himself. The perils Of police life are thus seen
to be numerous.
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A Christians View.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-SW: wish you
record my earnest protest against the practice of rail
reading the Guitesus Coxes Balbos and other scoun
drels straightway to heaven. II continued il will /
think be in order select other place the
future home OF the truly righteous The presence OF
OF cartls candidates for hell cannot but have
effect upon the angels and saints para
disc which will he hooked upon desira.
Bile locality for tho everlasting residence of
NEW YORK, july |. A CHRSrIAS THE FENCE.
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We are sorry to blame the albany ErenmV
Times but justice COmpes, Finding good poem
in its columns, we transferred II 10 our own, giving credit
to the Times of coarse and now learn that this
poem had been stolen by that journal and really be.
onged to HdiTers weekly. This is kind OF conduct
that We are greatly surprised at in the Times.
There il one honest rule for newspaper TO follow,
namely, to credit everything which it copies the pc
riodica In which that thing originally appeared. We
trust that the Albany Erenin0 Times will hereafter pur.
sue the strict line OF this virtue.
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The morbid interest in persons made ia
nous by crime is invariably overestmated, as
those who endcavor to turn such fame into
profit find out. The widow OF the late Mr..
JESSE JAMES Of Missouri started with her two
children on a tour OF exhibition with lecturer
who diated upon her husbands career as
highwayman. and the experiment has come to
grief because OF small audiences. EPHRAIM
LrrrLEFIELD the janitor of the Cambridge
Medical College, whose testimony was most i'm
portant upon the trial OF Prof. JOHN w. WEB
sTER for the murder Of DR.. GEORGE PARKMAN
carried about on lccturng tour some of the
relics of that trial. including q blood stained
bowie knife. n horrible tea chest q Turkish yat-
Afghan with n richly chased silver handle
found in the prisoners laboratory. q Ratchet,
three large hshhooks and busts OF PARKMAN
and WEBSTER; but he was hooted and Kissed
of the platform after brief Improbable
season. Tho Rev. HERBERT ii. HAYDEN who
was tried for tho murder Of MARY STANNARp,
made money by the sale Of his photograph and
that Of his faithful wife. but not by occurring
and he has been obliged to return TO his trade
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PROVIDENCE. July IA lot on Washington
street opposite the City Hail part OF the sprague
mortsagcd estate sold to-day for 81 per foot Messrs
Butler and PrOr Spragues Counselurs are III town but
no protest Was made
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as carpenter. GurTEAu's sister utterly failed
In lecturing and GuITEAu himself. II free.
would scarcely be q lyceum attraction. Cove
BENNETT. who was once under sentence Of
death in Jersey City for the murder Of Police
man SMITH, went back to his vocation-that Of
an actor-under an assumed name, and his
identity has been carefully concealed from the
public. In literature. famous criminals. or
those made famous by them. succeed no better.
Publishers have found this out to their
sorrow. and the recent publication OF GUI-
TRAus book. OF which hardly dozen copies
have been sold according to the latest ac-
counts points in the same direction.
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1t was q coincidence that the typical marble
statue Of the Confederate soldier at Columbia
was shattered by lightning at the very time the
Union veterans Of the war. the Grand Army OF
the Republic. were in session at Baltimore.
The accidenti is an unusual one 1t would be
an awkward addition to the present difficulties
Of open air sculpture. ifdesigners should here
after have TO manage q lightning rod In con-
nection with it. Perhaps In that case the Ger
man spiked helmet might be in. favor on mill
tary figures.
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We notice the frequent appearance of an
Assistant District Attorney OF Kings County
as a speaker at tho meetings Of the movement
to save the boys" There is law prohibiting
the sale OF liquor to minors. but 1t is COM
planned that 1t is treated as a dead letter. and
hence the effort to create public sentiment to
require its enforcement. The law Is plain. 1t
provides for fine for oil liquor dealers who
sell liquor to persons between eighteen and
fifteen years Of age. and provides punishment
as for misdemeanor for all who sell to children
under fourteen years Of age. 1t seems like
firing at the clouds to waste energy in public
meetings. Those who want to save the boys
should turn upon the officials selected to
enforce the law,
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and Brown in Brooklyn is not a mere spasm Of
official energy, Coney Island may be saved the
disgrace OF being the resort for q contest be-
tween bruisers. and prize fighting may cease to
be n pleasant spectacle for Brooklyn poll
ticians. 1t seems to be taken for granted that
Brooklyn Alderman is given to abetting prize
fights, and not the least surprise is manifested
over the arrest OF Alderman OCoNNELL. or ex-
Alderman and ex-Deputy Coroner JAMES
DUNE. 1t is easy enough for talking officials
to pledge that these among other prisoners.
will be looking out upon the world through
iron gratinGs before long. Nevertheless. Alder
man JONES. who was accused Of helping to
steal $3.50, 900 from the Board Of Education. is
still q fashionable young man about town.
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Probably the most exhaustive test ever
given to the use of steam rs motor for street
railways has been that Of the Paris Tramway
Company. which has tried twenty-ono different
systems, occupying Ave years in the expert
ments. Not one succeeded and the company
is now using horses. The difficulty was mainly
in the expense; for with the original cost of
engines the pay of the driver and stoker. the
fuel and maintenance and the many accidents.
the company found its'eXperimeuts expensive.
The end came in prohibition by tho city au-
thoritics but the company was!hardly sorry to
be thus released from its persistent efforts.
Yet 1t is conceivable that any day some new de-
vice may render the use OF steam more prac-
ticable, while the resources OF hot air .com-
pressed air, electricity and coiled springs are
still uncxhausted.
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California has more than once sent us
pedestrians who proved lamentable failures in
competing with the walkers and runners of the
East. But sho has made up for these mishaps
in her latest product. Mr.. II. S. BROOKS. Jr.. Of
San Francisco. who defeated the renowned
MYERS in tho late 900 yards championship
race at the Polo grounds. AS Mr. BROOKS
became student at Yale College year ago
he will no doubt be seen often at the amateur
championship races in New York. and will
presumably meet Mr.. MYERS at the various
short distances where the latter has achieved
his rcnown.
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The value of the complaints OF overwork
which Senators are fond Of making Is shown
by some incautious admissions during a re-
cent debate. A motion was pending for
the reference OF Il matter to the Committee
on Education and Labor. Senator GEORGE.
member Of the committee. opposed the refer
ence. on the ground that the committee would
not attend to it, and it was too important to be
neglected. He said that the committee had not
been able to get a quorum for two months.
This brought out Senator BLAIR. the Chairman
OF the committee in its defence. Ho did not
deny what had been said. but declared that
every committee in the Senate had difficulty In
getting a quorum. Now. the matter which 1t
was feared would be thus slightingly dealt with
was resolution for a special Investigation OF
labor strikes. Senator MORGAN introduced the
subject in a speech setting forth the wide
spread and serious character Of the disagree
ments between workingmen and their en-
ployers. and arguing that they indicated a
diseased condition OF affairs which should be
examined into. He asked that the Committee
on Education and Labor would report whether
il would undertake such an inquiry, or whether
a special committeeyshould be appointed. and
for answer he got the information that it was
doubtful whether tho committee would bestir
itself sufficiently even to hold meeting. The
Senate finally laid upon the committee its in
junction W report inside of week.