The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-30

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Nearly every English novelist wh0
has treated, of murder has INDUCED the
fancy or echoed the belief that murder
ers are haunted BY their crimes and
torn by remorse. The sleepless nights
Of murderers. their blanched faces,
whitened hair. their muttered comics
sions during sleep. or frequent starts
from slumber. accompanied by shriekS
Of fright or agony. are IS familiar 70
novel-readers a. is the idea that lover
can not properly engage himself in
marriage except he does so with long
and beautiful speech to the object OF his
alteration. The pulpit has even lent
wings to the same idea.
UO these statements bear comparison
with the facts? Are murderers slaves to
the torments ascribed to them? Phoebe
Paulin's murderer has not been driven
to surrender himself and end the torture
he is said to suffer. The Nathan. Rose
Amber, Hayden, Maybee, Cunning
ham. Mary Rogers, and scores-yess
hundreds of other murders COMMITTEES
in or near New York are to-day uncos--
fessed. Who can reconcile the fanciful
remorse of Houseman with the jaunty
air of the real murderer Chastine Coz,
and his repeated assertion: "Dat was
the first 'sault an battery I ever CON-
mitted?" How can the Justification OF
Petro Balbo, '.She bit my finger to sbe
bone, and in my agony seized the dag
ger and killed her." be quoted in veris-
cation of the behavior of Aram, VINO
hand to touch the palm of friend?
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death now await the gibbet in the Ray
mond Street Jail. Brooklyn. One is
George Mills, who slew in fit Of rage
the wife he now says he truly loved, be-
cause she would not send out for more
beer. The second is Giuseppe Guidci,
who deliberately, after premedtat on.
slaughtered q fetiow-workman for .
fancied grievance The third is Alex
ander jefferson. the Crow Hill assassin
who stood outside a shanty where his
friends were assembled and fired into
the party again and again, until he had
killed two and wounded two.
.'Do they wake up at night and
shriek2" the reporter inquired of War
den Julian.
NO" said the warden, in loud and
derisive monosyllable.
is their hair turning winter"
"No'-in the same manner.
| ado they dread the darkness? Dothey
say they are sorrva DO they admit that
they have done anything for which they
4 should suffer-" ~ r~ -H
"Nothing of the Sort" said the war;
den, and he looked at his questioner
as if the reporter was poet or a callow
boy.
But they are very miserable, Of
course" continued the reporter, ''know-
ing rs they do that their end is close at
hand and will be compassed in a fright
! full MANNER"
why" said the warden. in amaze
ment, 1--WE have to stop the Italian
from singing, he's SO happy. He sings
SO loud and so much we harn TO stop
HIM. But otherwise the three murder
ers are the best prisoners we have; the
qu:etest, most orderly and best"
Have they any appetite' Can they
eat?''
lord bless you, you ought to $50
them. OF course, murderers always eat
hea ty."
Look here" said the official. II
never knew any man 10 su er. such
things as you suppose these people do
that is, any except my own father. He
had narrow escape from death in q
burning bui ding. and his hair turned
gray right afterward. but | neye knew
such thing in nv official experience
Il never knew a m n under sentences
of death to experie &c what you de
scribe. he went on. 81 never new
one to feel remorse. They eat well
ee We'll, and a-e usua ly in excellent
! spirits >u h things as their ar turn
ling white, se,lng the bodies their
victims n the dar getting thin, and
so on. never lnew ase of. They
are sometimes little nervous just after
the excitement of their trial and SEN
tence 1T it soon wears of.
"Iou NAV go through my prison !"
said Warden ohm Green. of I row Hill
enitentiary. land YOU will not find .
prisoner who thinks it right and just
that he should &c confined. Zach one
knows he is guilty, but each one knows
that the guilt must be proven, and SO
he argues TO himself that his lawyer
had understood how to managr the casa
and put it just right, nd The nd and
jurc had only seen It in the same light.
he would have got of. The question OF
guilt does not enter into the case. There
Is no remorse, but there is greet, not
for tine commission of the CRIME, but
Tor the inab.l ty to escape pun .shnaent-"