Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-22
Nearly every English novelist who

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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 as familiar 70
nOvel-readers as is the idea that a lover
can not properly engage himself in
marriage except he does so with a long
and beautiful speech to the object of his
alteration. The pulpit has even lent
wings to tho same idea. ,osa s.
Do these statements bear comparison
with the facts? Are murderers slaves to
the torments ascribed to themp Phoebe
Paulin's murderer has not been driven
to surrender himself and end the torture
ne is said to suffer. The Nathan, Rose
Amber, Hayden, Maybee. Cunning
ham. Mary rogers, and scores yes,
hundreds = of other murders committed
in or near New York are to-day uncon-
fessed, Who can reconcile the fanciful
remorse of Houseman with the jaunty
air of the real murderer Chastine Cox,
and his repeated assertion: "Dat was
the first 'sault an battery ever COM
mitted?" How can the justification of
Petro Balbo. ''She bit my finger to the
bone. and in my agony seized the dag
ger and killed her." be quoted in veriti-
cation OF the behavior of Aram, who
never allowed his blood-stained right
hand to touch the palm of a friendp
Three murdeFers under sentence of
death now await the gibbet in the Ray
ta,1 s.
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 Guidici,
who deliberately, after premeditat on
slaughtered fellow-workman for a
fancied grievance. The third is Alex
ander jefferson. the Crow Hill assassin
who stood outside 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
shriek?" the reporter inquired of War
den Julian.
NO" said the warden, in loud and
derisive monosyllable.
is their hair turning wnite?"
s.No"-in the same manner
ssDo they dread the darkEessp Do they
say they are sorry? DO they admit that
they have done anything for which they
should suffer?''
Nothing of the Sort" said the war.
den, and he looked at his questioner
as if the reporter was poet or a callow
s.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 fright
full manner?''
.'Why," said the warden. in amaze
ment, I'VE have to stop the Italian
from singing, he's SO happy. He sings
so loud and SO much we have to stop
b m. But otherwise the three murder
ers are the best prisoners we have; the
quietest, most orderly and best. ~
'.Have they any Appetizer, Can they
eat?" g4s - a
ssLord. bless you! you ought to see
them, OF course, murderers always eat
hea rty."
"Look here,'' said the official, 81
never knew any man TO suffer such
things as you suppose these people do
that is, any except my own father. He
had narrow escape from death in a
burning building, and his hair turned
gray right afterward, but never knew
such q thing in my official experience.
81 never knew man under sentence
of death to experience what you de-
SCRIBE he went on. 81 never knew
one to feel remorse. They eat well.
Ieel well, and are usual " in excellent
spirits. Such things as their hair turn
ing white, seeing the bodies of their
victims in the dark, getting thin, and
so on, never knew case of. They
are sometimes little nervous just after
the excitement of their trial and sem
tence. but it soon wears off. - ~
"You may go a through my prison, ;"
said Warden John Green, of Crow Hill
Fenitentiary. ''and you will not find
prisoner who thinks it right and just
hat he should be confined. Each one
knows he is guilty, but each one knows
that the guilt must be proven, and SO
ne argues to himself that if his lawyer
had understood how to manage the case
and put it just right, and the Judge and
Jury had only seen it in the same light,
ne would have got of. The question of
guilt does not enter into the case. There
s no remorse. but there is regret, not
or the commission of the crime, but
or the inability to escape punishment"
N Y Sam