The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-30
MURDER IN NEW ENGLAND.
Crimes of Unparalleled Atrocity in the
Land of Puritan People.
From the Boston f1Lnhe.


From the Boston Globe.
In respect to murders, remarkably in-
genious in their conception, astounding In
their execution or unfathomable in their
mystery, New England holds bad emil
hence. If 1t be admitted than New England
is the scene of more appalling murders than
is Wyoming or Dakota, it is not at the same
time an admission of an inferior civiliZa-
ton. Moreover, If a certain human vanity
were not SO anxiously masked it might APP
pear that, like every other community, we
have concealed about US a certain irrepres-
sible and outrageous pride in the fact chat
when we do have murder here in New
England usually it is a murder worth think
ing about and which commands place on
the first page Of every American news
paper.
Without calling Up the memorable White
case in Salem the killing of Parkman by
Prof Webster, the dreadful mystery of
Bussey Woods, the inexplicable Piper muir
der, the child sacrifice Of Pocasset, Mrs
Robinson, the Somerville poisoner, or the
unparalleled butcheries by Jesse Pomeroy,
one needs to turn back the pages of GRIM
inal history, as we make it here in New
England, but a little more than two years
to find five of the most atrocious instances
in the annals of life-taking. The Turing Of
Hiram Sawtell into the Lebanon woods by
latter-dayiCa and the passionless MUIR
der and mutilation perpetrated there by a
man of uncommon intelligence Ia the hope
of gaining thus a double interest in a petty
estate, was a most preposterous caricature
Of the unfraternal deed of him who, thou
sands of years ago, asked: "Am l my
brothers keeperr
Before the law could avenge itself upon
Isaac Sawtell the peace of the state of New
Hampshire was again violated by the bold
assassination of Christie Warden, in the
presence of her mother and sister. If this
crime differed from the not uncommon out
burst of desperate lover only in the time
aud separation that interviewed between the
disappointment and the killing far "more
strange than such a murder ISL were the
fight, discovery, resistance, surrender and
Identification Of the assassin, who
while detectives and reporters sought him
thousand miles away, found himself free
from intruders in the very barnyard OF
the home which cruelty he had bereaved,
undisturbed in his midnight devotions at
the new-made grave and grimly enjoying
all the while, in the Boston papers, the re-
ports from host of baffied pursuers. His
Identification as one who in his youth had
been the marauding terror of a town in the
very neighborhood of his innocent farm
labors, his fruitless courtship and his crime
only served the more clearly TO distinguish
MIN as VlIlaln III TO 6QOrn bl6 UQOSG plCE-
uresQue and terrible legend.
The crime for which Or. Graves Of Provi-
dence now awaits the extreme penalty Of
the law stands absolutely alone and without
precedent among contemporary murders.
Here we have a case, as the jury found,
where a man kills his victim more than
2 coo miles away. A doctor drops a liquid
concoction into the postal pouch at Boston
and its recipient is poisoned to death in the
To-
Surely no murderer was ever freer from
suspicion than young Norcross of Somer-
vile, and no murder was more difficult Of
explanation than that which be committed
in the New York Office Of Russell Sage. The
most searching inquiry left the record of
his life until its closing week singularly
blameless. Among all his acquaintance
not one was found who could remember an
incident or a word that pTesaged the woful
inspiration that drew this quiet, conser vat
i've and prosperous young note broker from
his home and Office one day TO his frightful
crime aud death in New York twenty-four
hours later. AND only by a trousers button
was this exemplary youth of Thursday
identified as the fiendish robber and bomb
thrower OF Friday. If dynamiters Turk In
such fGir DISCUSSES, who among our neigh
bors will be next to cast bombl
Among all strange outbursts Of murder
GUS passion the Fail River cese is the most
complete. Every element of a great sensa-
ton is present. The victims were man and
wife, wealthy and respectable. The accused
is a woman of refinement and their daugh-
ter. The deed was done with every circum-
stance OF furious brutality and in the open
day. Thus far to the public and the press
the mystery surrounding the whole case
wears an impenetrsbie front.
May not New England's murders be ac-
cented as manifestations of the peculiar
weakness of an old and advanced civiliza-
tionl
Colored Harmon Club.