The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-07-11

mad-betrayed, deserted, ruined, forsaken
deprived of her only child by death; wha
wonder that her brain reeled and her hear
strings cracked, and that she became {
wanderer distraught? From what we know
of her life, she owes the world nothing; life
has been wretched blank to her. Time
and again che appears to have made al
honest and earnest effort to sustain herself
when the mad taint in her blood cropped
out, and hurried her down to ruin. One
/ link alone bound her to life-her little girl
She was taken from her, and after that she
had nothing left to live for. No sane jury
could have arrived at any other conclusion
and even the valiant O'Donovan Rosa il
satisfied by this time that Miss Dudley is
not an emissary of the hated Sassanaeh
hired be British goold.
| The Imprisonment of Boyd, the glass i'm
porter, for defrauoing the Government If
| another terrible lesson. No other merchant
has been imprisoned in New York for this
! offense for fifty years. Mr.. Boyd had no
excuse for his theft. He was worth mill
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| to his great estate, and the bulk of his prop
| erty was the result of his dishonesty. By
his swindling practices he has not only
robbed the Government, but he robbed his
fellow merchants, and ruined them by
scores. Not satisfied with stealing himself,
he brought his son up to the business of
thieving, and it is only owing to merciful
Judge that the young man is not to-day
What lessons have we had i'll the last two
weeks-Fish, Boyd aud Buddenseik. Fish
was worth $1,000 Boyd Il million; Bud
denseik half million. The eager lust of
gain has proved the ruin of them all, and
now instead of enjoying their ill-gotten
gains in their magnificent homes, in line.
to the lock step, they march to their cells
in the company of murderers and thieves.
Will some of the dishonest merchants,
bankers and builders who are still out of
prison-will the young men who are coming
up, and who have been taught that it was
the proper thing to be fast and to have lots
of money, no matter how it was got or who
it belonged to, pause and think? If you
ruined your dearest friend by foisting on
him lot of worthless stocks of fraudulent
securities you were called smart. To lie
and cozzen and cheat was to be keen ;in
business; to be rich was to he great and
successful; to be poor was worthy of social
and financial damnation. Halt, halt! Young
man take round turn and fetch up. 1t is
not disgraceful to be poor after straight
forward honest endeavor. It is not honor
able to be rich if the riches are got by dis
honesty and theft. The one may mean an
humble home with honor, self respect and
peace, and the other end with the execra-
ions of your fellow men aud convict's
cell.
The late New York appointments fell like
a wet blanket on Brooklyn. Everybody on
the east side of the big bridge, thought a
Brooklyn man would get the rich plum OF
the Collectorship; or failing that. at least
the Surveyor of the Port. It was said with
apparent reason, if Kings county had done
as New York county did, that Mr.. Cleve-
land would still have been Governor of
New York with small chance of reelection,
but Kings county reeled off between 1900
and 1900 majority, and that in q city with
q Republican Mayor, and majority Of
Republican officers. Brooklyn nominated
MIR. Cleveland for Governor: for it was
only by the sacrifice of her favorite son,
General Slocnm, that the nomination of
Mr.. Cleveland was obtained. Brooklyn
claims that the President has forgotten his
obligation to the City of Churches, and
there is much grumbling thereat. What
good things there may be in store for them,
only the President knows; the rea!izations'
so far, have not been satisfactory, and un-
less some of the patriots are provided for,
it is safe to say if Mr.. Cleveland runs again
he will not get 1900 majority in the coun-
ty of Kings.
The shameful inefficiency of our crimi-
nal laws finds notable illustration in the
case of Carpenter, the wife murderer. This
miserable wretch has been saved from the
gallows for over year, and yet more de-
serving ruffian never stretched q halter. He
has always been brute and an outlaw; as
a boy he was in with the worst gangs in the
city, and he eliminated a life of crime and
shame by numbering his own brother. By
q technically which never should have been
allowed he was permitted to plead guilty to
manaaughter in the third degree, and got
off with few years. imprisonment. On
the trial his wife was witness against him,
and while in prison he swore he would kill
her. When he got out he followed a woman
whom he mistook for his wife into church,
and stabbed her in the back right in the
midst of the congregation. He was again
imprisoned, and as soon as he was out,
found his wife and butchered her in open
day. The poor creature, attacked by this
fend in the street, ran into saloon bleed
ing from dozen wounds. The bar-room
was filled with eowardly men who stood by
while he chopped her to pieces. It is an
outrage on justice that such wretch should
be allowed to live-his worthless neck is
not worth the rope that breaks it: and after
every resort has failed-the Supreme Court,
the Court of Appeals and executive elem
ency, they are trying to prove him insane.
It is ssfe to hang just such lunatics "a Car
penter every time; he has already killed
two, and that he did not kill the third is
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