Arizona silver belt., 1888-08-18
AN EYE Rsn AN EYE.

Hugh h Brooks, alias Walter II. l., Maxwell, the murderer of Charles A, Prsller, was hanged in St. Louis on the 10th inst, and was accompanied on his journey acress the rlvev Styx by Mir. Landgraf, who finding time hanging heavily upon his hands and bains unable 10 devise 8 way to Kill time, killed hIs sweetheart, Mir. Brooks, a. he accompanied Mir Land graf on the gsllews, seemed to have something upon his mlnd that dis tressed him. His face was of an ashen hue, pinchsd and drawn; his lips twitched and his eyes, from thsr swollen appearance, indicated that he had been crying. l,audgraf, having experienced religion, wore beatiiie smile, which was construed as a fond remembrance of hsr whom hs had slain and who had preceded him to ths happy land of Canaan. Brooks, perhaps, may meet and recognize Preler in the spirit land, and in his "reminiscences of the past induce Prel- Ter to believe that his killing was ac- cidsntal, and in placarding tho trunk containing his body, 'so perish all trai tors to great cause, "as simply joke, Brooks body has been taken to "the tight little isle for English worms to battsn on. Since hs embraced deaths cold felieitiss MT. Landgrafs remains l'spose meath the turf in St. Louis pettsrS' field, where those that were once mortal are crowded together, and jostled in ths dust.
 Lawyers, for years, will discuss the Maxwell defense. It will be lectursd upon by past grand masters in erimi- nal law as wasted opportunity, and regrets wilb be expressed that the case was not so handled that it would have taken the place of the details of the ParkmanNsbste case, tho great murder romance and ideal case of cir cumstantial evidence, There was noth- ing remarkable in the case of Land graf. It was simply an open and pre- nlsaitated murder and yet, through the quidltiss of the law, It was three years before his life was finally ad- judged to pay the forfeit of his great crime, and what doss the bafiled ad- ministration of justice teach? It calls for simplifcatien of criminal law and criminal practice in our courts, where admitted facts of confessed murder can not accomplish ths ends of justice, except in rare instances.
 Jealousy, the green-eysd monster, was the alleged cause of Landgraf as- sassinating Annie Tisch. She had spoken to another man for which Landgraf determined to kill her, and informed his brother af his intended action day previous to the killing, and in conformity with that dstsrmi- nation called for Annie, and walked with her to his brothers gate, and Aalting her, deliberately drew pistol from his hip pocket and shot her through the brain. Yet the monster, through the laws delay, was permit ted te live three years after commit, tlng the deyilish decd.
 While that is the case, judges and juriss are net alone to blame; it partly rests with those who make our laws That being so, 1t is pertinent for the peace of scclety that justice should bs unfsttered in order that savageism with it's contaminating and deadly in fuence, might be removed to where the tragic muse of history would mol bs called upon to blot his pages witt deeds of blood, such as now occupy SC large a space in criminal court litera turs. The iaxity of the administra ton of justice, in our courts, has en ablsd Judge Lynch to assume judicia robes and give effect to his spontaneous judgment. BushwhaekiRg is fostereS by the same cause, and not few in nocsnt people go down to dusty deatt because of justice being slipshod Railroad and labor strikes, with theil accompaniment of dynamiters abound because of a fasitious administration of criminal law. Neighborhoca wars to settle imaginary wrongs, have taker the place Of grand and petit juries and alleged offences have been con donsd through the agency of the bull let, until our political structure ha about resolved itself into its primitive state, and thus IS iustlcs modsrnlzet into "hell broke loose"
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