Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-31
NOBODY TO BLAME,
A Beautiful Girl, a Wrecked Life,
and a Double Death.
With a Conflicting Verdict.

to the dust and the soul to Him who
gave It, and yet the deed so far as the
public are concerned, remain a mystic
ry. Although it Ia generally conceded
q double crime has been committed,
no n Is to blame, according to the
verdict. A man who has been known
here previously 10 permitted to come
here and register with q m under
an assumed name; the woman Is taken
violently sick, no nurse Is provided, a
physician Is called, the unfortunate
girl is delivered Of o child, she
Is finally provided with a nurse
and asks a change of physlciaus, 1t Ia
denied her, but the fendish medicine
which she declares is destroying her
Is continued to be poured down her
till the and is accomplished. She diea
away from home and friends, her par
amour neglects to provide the ways
and means of q respectable funeral,
and ct the hour for the last sad rites
oowsrdly deserts the funeral oortege
under the pretense of business. A
star chamber inquest is had, who ever
heard Of such q thing under the civil
code OF q free government, and o YER.
dict Is rendered, first, "That Dslia
Brown" (who had been registered on
the register Of q hotel as the wife of
j. M. Griswold) "came to her death
by a miscarriage" It Is remarkably
strange that Q miscarriage should so
suddenly come about, to q person who
registered 81 o married woman,
when the jury found previously
that her maiden name was
Della Brown, and they had no knowl-
edge of her having been or being q
married woman). "And the improper
use of medicine given her, by whom,
to the Jury Is unknown"
This certainly Ii the most labored
effort the Jury had to contend with.
They seemed Satisfied that two causes
produced the death; the first may %
have been brought about by the de.
ceased; the second, the medicine
part, may % have been; II so, why
not 30 find2 Who decide ''by whom
IL unknown" when only three or four
at most had anything to do with the
medicine the protested husband, the
doctor, the nurse, and perhaps the
porterj If nobody was to blame,
why should the professed husband In
90 oowardly q manner desert q corpse
at the hour of burial2 If nobody was
to blame, why should soy eral other
things have been left undone that,
out of respect to society aud decency,
ought to have been done1 1.-THE verdict
of that jury is just and warrantable,
taken In connection with tho facts of
the case and what the lady nurse Mrs.
Thompson told the writer the facts of
which were published In The Nom
pareil and THE BEE Of tho 20 h inst,
of this article then We are sadly mis-.
taken az to what is necessary to con-
stitute q crime of the grossest and
basest character. With such o crime
as the death Of Della Brown, which
occurred on Monday In this city, pro
teoted and shielded by the verdict of q
jury, nobody to blame; after finding
she came to her death from unnatural
causes, and the causes fresh and
prominently before them In connection
with the oircumstAntial facts 30 re.
cent should cause the blush of shame
and indignation to crimson the check
Of every intelligent citizen OF the land.
If such crimes al these are permitted
to 20 by shielded under the law, then
1t Ia time to abandon our public
schools, churches, Sabbath schools
and all other societies for
the advancement Of public morals
and the sustainanoe and protection
OF honest government and the curtail-
ing Of crime. No home Ia too sacred,
no woman too pure to be approached
by the Williams who perpetrated this
base AMI ignominius crime. Chew to
the line, let the chips fall where they
may" Ii % necessary In the maiute.
nance OF the public welfare a. in the
successful counting room or % discip.
line In q vast army. Because the poor
girl had no friends here to prosecute
and place the blame where 1t properly
belongs, 1t 10 no reason why Justice tt
the common public should be 10 rock
lessly abandoned and guilty oulprit,
permitted to stalk about the lane
: Seeking whom they may devour,
boastlng of the scalps which hung a
their belts through deception, Gun
: ningness and wiokedness. Somebod,
!, certainly is to blame, and II the off
' cials whose duty It Is to ascertain an,
. place the blame where 1t belongs "a
t protection to society and the ourtailin
Q OF crime, fall to do so, 1t Is time tn
people should waken from their slum
bers and witness the causes which ar
Q blasting happy homes and sending I
untimely graves the flowers Of tn
q land to satisfy the passions of III
a vicious and unprincipled, while tn
! victims bear the shame even unit,
death. And we would be made I
believe no one Is to blame. "Are W
demons or are we men7" II there |
9 no law to punish the perpetrators Q
0 such crime, tor the sake of orr daugh
ters and sisters and the rest q
, humanity let n speedily be enacted
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A Big Scare.
The Des Moines Register, II,
rs newspaper men In all small town
when items are scsrce, has got up a b
9. sensation In order to scare Counc
10 Bluffs property owners; or, In 9th,