The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-16
After the Verdict.

into closer contact, ana illustrated more
clearly the working OF the institutions
and the temper OF the people of the two
states than any event OF recent years.
The most needless observer who has FOL.
lowed this case cannot fail TO have noticed
the animus that has characterized the ire
quent allusions to New England. They
evidently consider that we are hide-bound
and mummifed; that our institutions are
moss-grown; that our civilization has
gone To notwithstanding that pitiable
state of degeneracy ''where wealth .ao-
cumulates and men decay" and that III
crime is to be perpetrated in dastardly
way il must be done by an Eastern man,
Before we condemn our Western breth-
rem we should consider il there is not some
occasion for the slight esteem in which
they hold us. Let us cultivate judicial
spirit. Let us not think more highly OF
ourselves than we ought to think. Is IL
not natural that the independent and
breezy denizen of Colorado, who deports
himself in free and easy defiance OF all es-
tablished usage, and who lives so much
higher above sea level than we, should re-
gard us with some complacency? We are
tame and musty in our own ways we car
ry handkerchief and not gun in our hip
pockets; our courts OF law adhere to the
old tradition that there may be two sides
to cause, and carry on their enquiries as
though it was not a foregone conclusion
from the start. Some of us even keep the
Sabbath. What can we exDectg
Still our Western brothers are not
altogether unmindful of us. They frankly
stretch out their brave hands To borrow
our money. Since we have no enterprise
of our own, they will take money and use
il for US. And am afraid it must be ad-
mitted that there have been instances
where the Eastern credit has been SO base
and sordid as to express n desire that these
loans should be repaid, and some. perhaps,
have been SO lost TO all proper,feeling as to
try TO enforce their claims through legal
procedure. There are things about us that
we cannot defend.
There are, doubtless, many people who
honestly believe that our Eastern juries
are capable of being the most consummate
asses on earth, that they shine in their
own ornament with corruscating bril-
liancy that is unapproachable. But it
would seem, when we lay aside prejudice
and consider the matter in "a judicial
spirit, that Western jury can be more
Kinds of asses. in-the abstract and con-
crete, than the most aspiring flight Of i'm
agination of an Eastern panel ever
Reed, they are there for business. 1t
would be manifestly improper to criticise
a court. Westward the Star OF Empire
takes its Way"
When murder has been committed
which points, however indefinitely TO an
individual of shady antecedants, and the
course OF business events makes il desir-
able that this individual be removed from
the scene of his earthly activities, there is
a fortunate coincidence. And further, if
the circumstances of the crime make the
action lie within the jurisdiction of the
Colorado Courts, happy is the prosecutor.
Then if he be possessed of energy and the
'sinews of war" the result may be awaited
with confidence. And If, in addition to
these fortuitous circumstances, the vic
tim dies with her face to the
mountains, the last element of un-
certainty is removed. When the witness
stated that she turned Mrs. Barnaby's
face TO the mountains, while death was
setting its seal upon it, the sensibilities of
all were deeply touched. Lafe Pence,
Judge Belford aud the District Attorney
each set apart a portion of his address for
"a burst of eloquence in depicting this pic
turesquely pathetic incident; and we are
told that upon each occasion the jury were
convulsed with sobs and the court
was moved to tears. Doubtless it would
be unbecoming to refer lightly TO any cir
cumstance attending death; but il is diff
ficult for the eastern lay mind to see how
this incident, which seemed so powerful
with court and jury, serves to connect the
accused with the crime.
But the sentence of death has been i'm
posed, and our townsman now sits soli-
tary in a condemned murderer's cell two
thousand miles away, keeping his soul
within n living body by bread and water
until the few days have passed which
bring him to the scaffold. Is il just 1t
is said that he has confessed the deed To
the two bailiifs who took him to the Jail.
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Perform what you command US.
Pinkerton's banditti have achieved their
relentless purpose, the cowboy in n white
shirt with n minion of the Colorado
courts at his side, and his check book in
his pocket, is coming east on business.
Probably there are few New England
people who desire to see criminal es
cape the penalty of the law i'm whatever
State the crime may be committed. But
the old traditions are strong upon US, and
we do want to see the guilt proven in
q court whose practice is something more
than modified form of lynch law. There
have been few voices raised TO applaud the
verdict. But our great and solemn daily,
which alights like u benediction on the
steps of our dwellings in the gray of the
morning, mingling its odor of sanctity
with the aroma of the breakfast coffee.
has thrown up its editorial cap and, in the
Language of the street, jumped on the ac.
cused with both feet.
District Attorney Stevens in his closing
address to the jury, drew very weird
and touching picture of n paralytic old
woman haunting the train that conveyed
DIR. Graves To Denver after Mrs. Barnaby' Is
death, and suggested that this phantom
caused him TO stop off at various points To
seek refuge from the dreadful sight. A
man is now iourneying eastward from
Denver. it may he that his scnsibilities
aie never stirred. IL may be that the
subtle action of the brain, which is sup
posed sometimes TO mock the senses and
picture To the imagination the mysteries
that are about us, never comes 10 him.
But il it does, may he not see as he looks
from the window of his sleeper in the
morning. though the vapory mists that at
tend the rising sun, the distracted and
vacant face of woman And when the
setting is throwing its slant rays across
across the sBow-covered plains. perchance
the suspended aud lifeless figure of man
with thin grey hair may appear above the
horizon. "A. ". ID.
January IL. 1892.
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