The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-12
The Carson Case.

of the evidence in the Car
son ease presented by THE NEWS yes
terday will find any fault with the
conclusion reached by the jury. The
only thing clearly deducible from the
testimony is that Mrs. Carson is dead.
That may be accepted as a fact.
But how she received her death
wound was left in as complete a state
of fog as ever. The testimony was
not so much contradictory as ir-
reconcilable with physical possibility.
Mrs. K~errigan, Mrs. Carson's sister,
who told the police that Carson COM
mitted the crime, and thai he used q
knife, yesterday swore that there was
a fight, Mrs. Carson fell among the
pieces of the broken pitcher and then
''they"-meaning the participants in
the fray-"picked her up and saw
that she was bleeding" She says she
asked her sister who cut her land she
shook her head" Now, if Mrs. Ker-
rigan tells the truth there was hardly
any necessity to ask her who cut her.
because she says that her sister ran
between the men as they were fight
ing. received a blow and fell. Obvi-
ously she was knocked down, which
seems to indicate that her throat was
not cut by either of the men, but that
she was cut by a piece of the pitcher,
upon which she fell.
Mary Anderson, who saw part of
the fight, testified that Kerrigan beat
Mrs. Carson, that Carson interfered
to protect his wife and vas knocked
down. When she came back Mrs. Car
son was lying on the floor also. Another
witness testified that Kerrigan
knocked Mrs. Carson down. All this
seems to fasten the killing upon Ker-
rigan, if the women's throat was cut
with a knife, and with murderous
intent.
AS to the police testimony that Mrs.
Carson said she was cut by her hus-
band, it is hardly evidence. The
women was dying, she could hardly
speak-''her voice could not be heard a
distance of two feet" the officer o
therefore the officer could hardly
tell what she really did say. She
might have been trying to say her
husband did not do it, instead of her
husband did do it, as the officer under
stood. The other police evidence as
to what Mrs. Kerrigan said is of no
consequence, because she made an en-
tirely different statement yesterday
under oath. Her original statement
was not sworn to and was probably
| designed to screen her husband. The
evidence shows that Kerrigan had as
sau1ted Mrs. Carson, and that the
husband, having interfered for her
| protection, was also knocked down.
He would hardly have cut his wife's
| throat by way of protecting her.
NOT long ago Chancellor McGill
| decided that official advertisements in
German must be printed in English.
Now the Supreme Court has given a
decision that such advertisements
must be printed in German. The
only safe plan would seem to be to
print them in both languages, but a
better way still would be to compel
immigrants to learn the English Ian
guage, even if they can't be COM
PEELED to use it. A man who can't
read English can hardly be qualified
to vote intelligently in an English
speaking country, as a rule.
THE following advertisement ap-
pears in the personal column of this
mornings Herald among the screeds
of blacklegs and flash women
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ONCE.
It's a funny world, isn't it?
The West Hoboken Anarchists met
in annual conclave yesterday. They
talked blood, but only beer flowed.
The gore was discussed in several
languages, the lager only in one,
though many tongues were involved
in its discussion. AS a labor saving
union there is nothing to equal ar
anarchist society.
ONE man died in a Turkish batf
the day before yesterday. 1t is thu
first case on record, though Turkisl
baths are taken to the number of a
least half a million a year in New
York. But it gives the fool newspa
per a chance to yawp for police sup
ervision of the baths. We wonder
there is any detail of life that the foo
newspaper would leave free from tn
interference of a pernicious paternal
ism.
THE process of reducing Jerse.
City's debt and cutting down the in
terest charges progresses steadily un
der the skillful management of
Democratic Board of Finance,
Democratic Sinking Fund Commits
sion and a Democratic Comptroller
Let the good work go on.
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