The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-05
A sPIRITUALIsT's MURDER THEORY.
A MAN CRAZY FROM DRINK KILLS HIS WIFE AND


A NAN CRAZY FROM DRINK KILLS HIS WIFE AND
DAUGHTER.
Wheeling W. Va, October Near Clarks-
pirg Yesterday morning, .lnO. X. BOgges, Jr.,
Killed ms vile and daughter, aged Ii, while
mchtaiiy deltngcd from the effects of drink
ne attacked his wife while she was i'm bed. She
called her daughter, wEo assisted her 70 escape
me fathers grasp. Mother and daughter then
1ed from the house. BOgges seized u poker and
followed Ovcrtaking his wife, he struck her
Twice, the last blow proving fatal. The laugh
Ter, coming To- save her mother, was killed with
one blow. The other children ran away The
ncighb"rs found mother and daughter lying
dead in the road, and discovered BOgges i'm the
house Intoxicated. He denied the killing and
ali knowledge of it's. A. Express.
About eight years ago a young man named
Foster was hanged in New York for murder.
tie was OF ual good habits and only rarely
given to drinking. He stepped, one night at
a late hour, in street car in which were sitting
gentleman with two ladies, returning from a
theatre. As he passed toward the front of the
car his unsteady gate caused the gentleman,
by not unkind gesture, to protect one of the
ladies from being fallen upon by him. He
took his station, leaning upon the fare box,
and there stood glarirg Indignantly at the
stranger until the latter got out with his ladies,
when he followed. Before the Car again
started he had seized the car-hook from the
outside, and struck the unfortunate man a
| fatal blow. He was carried to the lookup,
where he fell asleep. In the morning he was
| aroused and on learning his situation declared
| that it could not be so; that he had not been
in any street car; had met no such party as
| described: had had no quarrel and hal struck
no one. He denied vehemen,ly that anything
| Of the kind had occurred.
Foster was called the car-hook slayer. His
trial and execution created more emotion, and
gave rise to more effort for his rescue from
the hands of the law than, probably, any case
in criminal annals. When no hope remained
but pardon, or Communication, the governor
was waited upon by societies from all parts of
the state. Hundreds of petitions, numerous
ly signed. were sent to him from every Sec
ton of the country. All this agitation arose
from the universal conviction that Foster was
unconscious of what he did, and that there
fore he should not be hanged. The governor
was obdurate and refused to intercede, which
arose, not from any doubt of the fact, but
from his conviction that it ought not to save
him, in other words, that he should be hanged
for getting drunk.
In that instance young man. in the morn
ing Of life, to whom crime was unknown save as
incident 10 news or Circumstance, found him.
self, on awaking from sleep, which was inno-
cent as child's, with forfeited life on his
hands. There is probably no other difference
between his case and that reported above
than that he killed a stranger and Boepcs
those he best loved.
How came either act to be done! What
reason is there that a man drunk should kill
This word "crazy," as used, is without mean
ing and mere conventional convenience.
But whatever ''crazy" denotes, there is no
| reason that man should be "crazv" be-
cause he is drunk. will strengthen this
with postulate, to.wit: No man is
or ever was, "crazy from drink" But, if l
yield it and admit that a man may be crazy
from drink and that, being so, he will proceed
to kill, why should he kill those he best loves?
Ii the answer be the absence of reason rejoin
that it is falacious, because will does not and
could not act without reason behind it. The
killing OF Bogges's wife and daughter was
somebody's act and somebody's reason di-
rected the will that did it. 1t simply was not
the reason or the will Of Bogges.
A year ago, in New Orleans, one Hennessv
killed man named Donovan. This Donovan,
had previously shot and killed one Wells. A
remarkable ''co-incidence" was noticed by
the papers, to-wi,: that Hennessy had shot
Donovan behind the ear. precisely as Donovan
had shot Wells. The 'co-incidence" is
easily explained. When Wells found himself
skilled he proceeded at once to be revenped,
and occupied himself with the means, lie
found two brothers Hennessey, who were
adapted to his use, and led them by device
and strategy. just as is done here, into feud
with the man VI De life he sought. Donovan'x
gu riel was with both. 1t was Wells who in
sp'red, perhaps himself made. the shot. His
motive for the ''co-incidence' was, to have it
known he was revengcd.
There is nothing done on earth. for GOOD or
evil, in which the dead do not take a hand.
When men learn that the virious dead are the
authors OF all the wrong in the world and not.
as Is supposed, the human passions which are
chiefly means to that end, wrong will begin
to disappear. My desire to see the work of
such reform in progress is my sole motive for
in; uding upon the prejudices of opinion that
probably, enslave the reader. +. H.H.
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