Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-29
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" ~ EEa R. IRVING LATIMER: 'S7 EkSB him. He is completely fagged out from hit excursion throughout the surrounding towns. He refused to say where he had been while at liberty.
 It is not known yet whether or hot he will be brought to account before the courts for this second crime, although it seems as though there should be one severer degree of punishment than i'm prisonment for life. which he already has,
 The escape and capture of Latimef has revived discussion of the subject of capital punishment. Tho laws of the state will not permit the inhiction of the death penalty, ne matter how atrocious the crime and this seeming inadequacy of pun ishment in certain cases has brought about several interesting lynchings in the state in the past few years.
 Tkere are now pending two Sr three bills providing fer the inf1iction of capital pun ishmeht In certain cases, one of which
 bills in view of the murder and escape at
 the State prison, is likely to become law.
 The members of the Legislature have
 been canvassed upon !the subject, and a
 majority are said to favor tho passage of
 one or the Other of the bills 1t has been
 foJnd where Latimer purchased the prussic
 acid that killed guard Haight. The second
 vial of the drug was obtained last Satur-
 day from a drug store, having been or
 dered from New York some time before. The first vial was purchased some months ago, but evidently Latimer did not find it to his liking. When the order was sent in
 for the second vial it was for kInd more carefully prepared and not kept in drug stores here.
 The firm refused to fill the order, but the clerk of the prison came in himself and
 said 1t was all right. He said that Lnt;:ner wanted the Prussic acid to develop some photographic plates. The vial came last Saturday, and it was sent to the prison at once.
 WESTERLY, R. I. March 2S.-The news I of the escape of the boy murderer R. Irving Latilner, from the jail ut Jackson, Mich. |, which reached here yesterday, has caused great excitement
 Only n few years ago there was no family | in southern Rhode Island, more widely known and prominent in the best social \ and business circles than the Latimers. ! Irving was a popular lad, and he was known all over the town of Westerly as n favored son of one of the largest manufac- turers of this section.
 For 22 years Irving resided here, and at that age he went to Jackson, Mich, with | his father who failed in his business enter- prises in about Westerly.
 | Tho young man WdS u HlcLlDeE Oi llc Sunday school taught by the United States Senator from this State, Hon. Nath. F.. Dixon, and he was graduate of the Westerly High School. While residing here he was regarded as trustworthy and quiet young man. After his departure | west, however, there was a story of his connection with a former Westerly woman and her daughter and it is the talk of the
 town to-day that he planned to get another young lady to leave the town and meet him in Chicago at the time of the murder | and robbery of Mrs. Latimer, his mother. Some of the people here have very clearly \ defined opinions about the death of the father of young Latimer, and the general impression seem3 to be amongst the ac- ! quaintances of the Latimer family that the ! fugitive murderer also killed his father I by narcotic poison. The killing of keeper Haight undoubtedly makes the third mur-
 der committed by the fugitive during his
 brief lifetime.
 l. Senator Dixon, who is home for a few i days during the election period, expressed his horror and amazement at the awful rec,
 ord of crime made by his former Sunday
 school scholar. He said that Latimer was
 a good boy and very quiet when he knew
 him.