The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-02-15

the fault was with the indictment. What
makes the case even worse is that woman
who few months ago was convicted OF the
same crime, and under circumstances which
left no doubt Of her deliberate intention to
kill the child, was only sent to jail for
eighteen months. Areview of all the homi-
cides committed in New York for several
years shows in only two aggravated cases.
where the criminals m ght well have been
hung, was the penalty Of ten years infiict-
ed. There were two sentences of four and
half years, one of four, several of three and
a half, and one of only two years. The
average of all the cases during two years was
not five years. But the poor servant glri'
without money and without friends, gets
ten years, though hers was the only case
where the guilt was actually in doubt. But
then you know New York law must make
an example sometimes for the sake OF So
ciety. But it is never troubled with scru-
pies of that kind when the criminal has
money and influence behind him. It this
servant girl had money she might have
easily secured a new trial, after the fashion
of wealthy criminals, but she hasn't and SO
she must go to jail.
The Essex Insane Asylum investigation
seems to have petered out through very
small hole. The committee report irregu-
larlties which include the Justification OF
accounts, though they are careful not to
put it into such plain English as that, but
they say that they can not find that there
is any criminal responsibility for the irregu-
iarities. This is all the more strange from
the fact that the Irregularities involve
changes in the accounts, alterations in the
prices, the erasure of entries and the sub
stitution of articles never furnished, and
ittlo trifes of that sort. Perhaps it was
the cat did it. Cats are unusually intelll-
gent just now, and since one is employed
to assist Mr.. Dana in editing the Sun, it
would not be very remarkable if viciously
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lunatic asylum accounts and played havoc
with them out of pure cussedness. By all
means let the cats of Essex be made to
give an account of themselves. Felines
who can not prove clear abb or show
that they can neither read nor write should
be promptly indicted. It is time an ex-
ample were made of some of these danger
GUS animals. 1t may even have been the
cat that killed poor james Wainwright,
since Rockwell and all the Wainwright
family swear very positively that none of
them did it.
The Newark Advtiser wonders how the
Prosecutor and Grand Jury of Ocean could
possibly have found evidence to warrant
the indictment of Rockwell and
the Wainwright family. No one
can read Rockwell's evidence without see
ing that he knows enough about the case to
warrant his doing some pretty tall lying in
regard to his connection with the case.
Putting the murder entirely out of sight
what are we to think of Rockwell's state
ment that he was on good terms with
Wainwright His relations with Mrs.
Wainwright were notorious and he openly
accused Wainwright with having defeated
his Shrievalty aspirations in 1881 by his
stories about him (Rockwell) and Mrs.
Wainwright, and yet he would have the
jury believe they were on good terms.
The Advertiser may be able to tell just
where Rockwell lies and where he tells the
truth, but the ontside world will have to
content itself with the old legal axiom, and
set down the man who is liar in one thing
as a liar in all things.
Lillian Russell has come back and yet
the dudes are not happy. You see she is