The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-08-10
grR BABY Is HER BOND.
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From DhO
rbaro is an innocent prisoner under
and kew within the dark and gloomy
wills Of our county Jail.
w." g. innocent prisoner-charged with
crime and incapable of committing
Ia sick baby, barely three months
W - o,iroing to it's mothers breast and
o l4ough it knows not why, for re-
IA from the damp and poisonous at
,oonbere of dungeon.
onr Jail was built for criminals and
.r.ons charged with crime; it was never
in+orded to make it prison house for
~ infant twelve weeks old.
We must give this case our attention
and take action. A Christian communi-
- nroud of its civilization and charity,
j. not going to keep sick baby in jail
ononc a lot of murderers and thieves,
II NAV be said that the infant is locked
- because the mother, Julia Olive, is a
prisoner. This woman did horrible
and cruel thing, the other day, when she
threw cup of vitriol into the pretty
fare Of Alice Smith, perhaps putting out
tbp ligbt of her eyes forever, and destroy
mo the facial beauty that had lured poor
rnIia olives husband to disgrace, and
caused the ruin of his once happy little
family.
The first impulse is to demand speedy
and severe punishment for the woman
who inflicted this iDhuman torture. This
belongs to the courts, and the merits or
dement's of the case we will not discuss
here
Our readers are familiar with the lead
inc facts of the case. A devoted wife
suddenly discovered that her husband
was upfaithful, and stung to madness
the broken-hearted and deserted woman
took her revenge. Doubtless, she had
no desire to kill, no wish to blind her
enemy. Her idea was to destroy the
beauty which she believed had wrecked
her home and left her penniless and half
cTazed with only her babe to live for.
Now, when well-to-do people in socie-
ty revenge themselves for such injuries
they generally kill, and juries acquit
them straight out, or upon the ground
Of temporary or emotional insanity.
We may be wrong, but it strikes us
that poor woman, with nothing in the
world to depend upon but her husband,
is just as liable to suffer a touch of in
sanity as anybody else, when she finds
herself face to face with desperation
her husband deserter, and a helpless
babe clinging to her arms!
Why not?
Alice Smiths sufferings will excite
general sympathy, but we should not
forget the tortured heart and the mad
dened brain of Julia Olive. Then, there
rs the baby. We cannot punish that lit
Ne innocent, no matter what fate is re-
served for the mother. Governors and
Judges frequently release the guilty, and
others waiting for trial, when the con-
dltlon of their health justifes the exer-
cl'e Of such clemency. Why not be
Equally considerate in this case?
The thing to do is to fix a small bond
For Julia Olive at once. There are kind
hearted strangers who will sign it, and
FAe crushed and sorrowing woman can
men take her child out of that deadly.
F"me-laden atmosphere, even though it |
" 10 a nome cheerless and comfortless
n the absence of the man whose deser-
ION was the first chapter in this tale of
fragic sorrow.
II Is the right thing to do. That sick
P'oy cannot be kept in our jail for weeks, |
II may be months, if death does not
Fet the innocent free!
Let the baby out! Trust the mother
VI 'n2 baby is her bond.