Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
A Country Where the Wheels OF
Justice Rsvtlvs With Light
ming Rapidly,
Soma Specimen Cases Whsrawith
to Poiat a Moral and
AdOrn q Tale.
Excitsms mt Over the Decay OF the
Briti,h Army and Navy.


Sreeial Correspondence Of the Register.
LONDON, June THE mills Of Brit
ish justice are different from the mills
OF the gods. They grind sure, but not
slow. In most other matters the peo-
pie here are SO tardy as to create the
suspicion of laziness. But when crimi.
mails are to be dealt with the usual
snail's gait gives place to q thorough.
bred gRllop. In American this order Is
reversed. We do everything else In
hurry. but in administering law We
proceed as though We had taken con.
tract to furnish mankind with aper-
petual justification OF one Of the chief
complaints in Hamlet's soliloquy. A
notorious example of this was the case
Of Guiteau. For
"The Laws Delay"
in dealing with him, the English people
will never forgive us. That his trial
should have lasted so long, and that In
the protracted interval between convic-
ton and execution his daily life should
be paraded before the world, are cir
cumstances which, to their thinking,
have left an indellIble stain on the his
tory of American jurisprudence. How
differently such things are attended to
on this side is well illustrated by recent
events in Ireland. II my memory Is
not at fault, the trials Of the Phoenix
Park murderers averaged about two
days each. The Londoner would read
at breakfast time the evidence pre-
scented 10 the court the day before, and
would be quite out OF patience 4, by tea
time, his evening paper had not In.
formed him of the sum ming up and
verdict.
Poor Tim Kelley! His was
A Bitter Fate
indeed! He had three /. ;;.,s aud e..
""''e p''0 - u,u not occupy more than
, :. week; but how dreadful he must have
felt when the Judge. in finally passing
sentence OF death upon him, spoke re-.
proachful'y of the large amount Of val-
liable time he had caused the govern
ment 10 waste In securing his convic.
ton. In the presence Of such an awful
imputation as that, the poor fellow
must have felt that the original charge
of murder was mere trifia. And the
executions were carried forward with 40
much dispatch as the trials. A briee
period of reflection was allowed tho
criminals, and then came the scene on
the galIows, with no postponement on
account of the weather, or any other
reason, the people OF England showing,
meanwhile, no markish sympathy and
hardly any pity. In its
Cold.Blsoded Determination
to enforce the law against these
offenders, without relaxation or delay,
the British nation found in the presid-
ing Judge, Justice O'Brien, man after
its own heart; and we have another ex-
ample of the rapidity with which mat
tiers Of this kind are attended to here;
in fact that ere the work sf legal slaugh-
ter is complete, this stern Judge hes
been rewarded for his services by pro-
motion to the Queens Bench. The last
heard of Justice OBrien was that he
was seeking rest among relatives I'm
Cheshire. Truly, ne needs breathing
spell, if Judge ever did, and, not
wishing him any harm, we sin.
cerely hope that a calm retrospect
of his hurried work will bring him no
qualms Of conscience, and that he may
always be able to persuade his country.
men that in the difficult ordeal through
which he has passed he only did his
duty, and discharged that without
malice, is net with charity and 0rbear.
ance.
Atihe Old bailey
next Monday the swift running mills
of the English criminal law will again
be set In motion for the solution OF the
Irish question, and this time the grist
will be the dynamite cODspiratOrs. Be-
fore this Is read the trial will probably
be over. Some OF the papers are plead
ing for a suspension OF the Judgment
till the evidence Is all In, but the mag.
istrates and the grand jury have al
ready passed the case, and that In this
country creates q strong presumption
of guilt. or the results OF this trial
three things may be predicted with
perfect safety. In the first place II will
not occupy one.fOurth the time that
would be taken up with such lse In
the American courts. Then, again, the
jury will he less likely than among our.
selves to give
The PPisoneps
the benefit of any doubts that may
arise; while, finally, In the event Of
conviction, q tremendous sentence Is
lure to lie imp osed. one which, when
they hear 1t, will make the accused feel
very much as though they had been
struck at short range by discharge OF
their own favOrite explosive. A heavy
penalty will follow ofnecessity from the
fearful a.:d wonderful indictment
brought against them. For such an IN.
usual combination of crimes as treason,
elony, conspiracy to murder aud con.
spiracy TO )ver-awe the Queen and in
duce her, by terror, to change her min
sters and counsels, some extraordl.
nary punishment must he devised. and
It would not, therefore, be very surpris.
ing il, under the circumstances, Ire
land being the bone Of contention, the
judge should perpetrate the ferocious
Irish bull Of sentencing the prisoners to
penal servitude for life, with the ulti-
matum OF being hanged when their
time is up" To Americans the most
unpleasant feature OF this
Dynamite Pet
Is that Ii appears 70 have originated on
this6ur side Of the Atlantic, and this fact,
besides being matter of regret, prom.
ises 10 be also cause of embarrassment
and annoyance. When one Iearnsthat
the parties under arrest had! been
watched and followed by detectives as
they had gone from place to place In.
.spscting the public buildings, one can.
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