The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-01-02
QUEENS CHRISTMAS.
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Eieanor IenrSey'A Nhost Disturbed Eng
Jahd's severe Hn.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-A London ca
bio says: Queen Victoria did not enio,
her baron of roast beef; the big Christ
mas plum pudding, or any OF the othe
delicacies that were spread up6n tn.
big table in the dining hall Of Windso
Castle with that gusto Of appetite
which, notwithstanding her advanced
age is one of her characteristics. A
least. SO it was whispered last night IL
tho Carleton club by q member of the
nobility who is also identified with s.
former political administration and who
was honored with an invitation to crosi
his aristocratic legs beneath the roya'
mahogany on Christmas day.
1t was the ghost OF Eleanor Pearsey
the handsome London girl, who OF
Tuesday was strung up by the neck, un
til sde was dead, that, according to thi.
source of information, disturbed the di
gestion of England's venerable soveE
eign. Murderess though she undoubt.
edly was, the hanging of Mrs. Pearsay
in the face Of the fact that Forbes
Winslow, probably the greatest living
authorityon nervous disorders. has de
clared after q searching examinati OF
that she was utterly Irresponsible in
mental sense, has aroused storm OF
indignation and is characterized in
many quarters as nothing less than q
judicial murder:
1t is we'll known that the queen has
considerable of an aversion to the hang
ing of members of her own sex, but SC
long as it is the established custom OF
English reigning sovereigns to be gov.
erned in such matters entirely by the
opinion of the home secretary, and 81
long as an individual so utterly callous.
SO cold blooded, 80 utterly lost to both
legal and sympathetic arguments, wher
tho moose and the gallows claims vic
tim, as the present incumbent 81,
Henry Matthews, occupies that i'm
portant position, SO long will the queer
be compelled to bear the brunt of pub
lie indignation. 1t is said of Matthews
that he would rather sign death war
rant than eat good dinner any day o.
the week, and it is notorious that under
his administration of the home office
there have been more hangings than
during the terms of his three predeces.
sors.
Even in the case of Mrs. Maybrick, in
behalf Of whose life tho most wide
spread and influential agitation that
England has seen for score OF years
was interposed. 1t is said that his ul-
timatum in favor OF her death, although
overruled by every other member of the
cabinet, was persisted in until the
queen took the bit into her own mouth
and declared that she would not sane.
tion the execution OF the American
woman.
A London paper, which apparently
for some time past has been watching
the question of capital punishment in
the United States, prints this morning
an article showing that within the past
few years no less than eighteen gov-
ernors or boards of pardon have com
muted the sentences of women con-
demned to death to life imprisonment,
and comments upon tho fact that what
American executives could not find il
in their hearts to do, viz, to send
member eff tho weaker sex to the scat
fold, has once rore been done, and that
apparently with a free. conscience, by
the yenerahle female sovereign of Great
Britain.
1t is not unlikely that the feeling
growing ont of Mrs. Pearsey's hanging
will lead to the Introduction Of bill In.
the next session OF parliament abolish.
Ing capital punishment SO far as women
are concerned.