Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1889-03-23
The Murder Of Mrs. Glade.

Mrs. Annie Glade, the victim Of TIT
murderous bullet of the hoodluu
O'Dowd, died, after lingering tive
days in agony. The murder OF this
woman is one Of the foulest deeds thai
have blackened the criminal records
of this city. 1t has bereaved ar
honest, industrious husband, orphaned
three little children, broken up &
happy home, and sent to a cruel dealt
an innocent woman, protecting hel
household from the invasion of 8
brutal mob at her very threshold.
The mob, rendered reckless by in
toxicstion and fred by a spirit o.
RIGHTEOUSNESS, imperiled all the homes
of the community among which they
passed, until their riotous orgies cul-
minated in tragedy SO appalling
that it seemed to strangely sober al!
of its drunken members at once and
impel them to seek safety in rapid
flight
As the chief OF police pointedly re-
marks, it does not seem reasonable
that a weapon shooting level, or in a
horizontal direction. from the hand
that aimed ii should have Leen meant
to be pointed downward at a snarling
dog when its deadly missile pierced
the breast OF a woman standing erect.
However that murderous pistol was
pointed, it was drawn bv an assailant
attempting to invade the privacy and
sauctity Of a home, after an unsuc-
cessful attempt had been made to
invade anothar occupied by four I'M
protected females 1t was drawn
against the defenders of that home.
and it was the offensive means of
killing wife and mother endeavor-
ing to shield her husband from as
sanlt and to save her children from
harm.
The motives of the members of that
ruftanly gang in their threats and
attempts to enter and break into
undetended residences of decent
families seem to have involved
horrible crime against society. The
intent OF that crime was entirely sunk
IN the committal of the subsequent
awful tragedy, of which one of the
mob VAS guilty, while its other mem
bers seem to have been accessories
before the face.
Whenever hoodlumism is allowed
to run rampant in New Orleans, SO
ciety is in imminent danger of re-
cUrrence Of similar fiendish atrocities
against the property of the people,
the purity of women, and the lives of
innocent men, women and children.
Elsewhere, men frenz;ed by such
deeds of crime, have seen fit to take
punishment in their own hands and
mete out swift vengeance on the per-
petrators thereof.
They have been wrong. The ma
Jesty of the law should always be re-
spected where it is strong to punish,
as it has been proven to be here in
New Orleans. And when the law
speaks its final condemnation on this
murder of Mrs Glade it is to be hoped
that it will be in such a manner that
Its voice may be needed forever after
ward, so that the class of criminals
involved may be debarred by utter
fear from the repetition ofsuch abhor-
rent crimes.
The law cannot restore the muir
dered wife TO the mourning husband
and the dead mother to tie waling
but it has the power to so
act in this case that more men and
women may be spared the fate of be-
ing shot or stabbed to death and
more suffering little ones saved from
orphanage at the hands of gangs of
larking hoodlums. !
After the death of Mrs.. Glade the !
chief of police issued orders for the
re-arrest cfevery member Of the crowd
accompanying O'Dowd. as PRINCIPALS
IN the crime. Chief Hennessev has
taken the proper course in this case.
All these men should be held respon-
able for the tragic results of their
awless conduct. 1t is but Just to
very resident in this great city that
hey be tried for their heiaous Of
ense against its peace and order, and
or their reckless. cruel sacrifice of
human life. Let them be punished
according to their guilt, that the ma
estv of the law may be maintained
md that greater safety to property
md life may be in future guaranteed
rom similar drunken creatures bv
he lasting example which may be
hus made.-Times- Democrat.