Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-12
nanaifaAiiiel In Guise oil Men

The way the t~is is bent the trees in
clasd is an old saw Of much merit, but
whether it would have been applicable to
the earlier career of Dr.. Meyers, the
alleged poisoner. and Auguste Nsillant, the
Partisan bomb thrower, can only be guessed,
II the reports of the deeds of these men be
true it would seem that both came into the
world with abnormal instincts and had
never been turned therefrom.
The case of Dr. Meyers. nov being tried
in the New York courts, is one which ex-
cites universal interest. Dr. Meyer, Who
sat dispsssionAte and with the tran
guilty born Of wonderful nerve power
under the testimony of his former accom-
plice Muller last week, is, if guilty, the
type OF mortal that has afforded the world
a conception of an immortal arch hsnd,
concerning which there would be no popu-
lar credence were it not for such rs DIR.
Meyer now appears to be. II the story of
the alleged sccomplice Muller be true.
this man Meyer, possessed of intelligence
and education beyond the average, has de-
voted these powers to killing people that he
might frsuduently secure a small insur-
ance on their lives. For the sun of $1,000 on
the life Of sn acquaintance it appears thst
he expended about $1,000 in preparation
and devoted several weeks to the process
Of killing his victim by inches and by
course Of poisons that entailed horrible
suffering. which the poisoner watched with
cut sign of conjunction. Muller. who
me .,elates the story cooly and exhibits
"a uacfer lost to all that brings humanity
y owe the brute level and possessed Of all
81 t debsses ii below even kindly brute in
,,i,cts.
In another great metropolis is a criminal
I Il just row i, The center of public atten-
n. This mon strossy threw a bomb in the
! ench chamber of deputies and impe rilled
M lives Of 100 people though fortunately
! ling no one. This man glories in the
= ed. though he was so badly wounded by
explosion that his own life is in peril.
lie Is an anarchist of the most insane type.
His record shows, a, does that Of his
as, that he never did honest labor.
tat he was lazy. lousy vsga-
lord and sneak thief Crsyy
fanatic that he il anl one from " hose hand
the public stands in greater danger than
n. ID about tb., l,s.
tor be true. he nevertheless is hero ia com
par.ou with the character which Muller d.
scribed on the witness stsnl. These three
specimens of human mons,rosity are similar
in one respect. a characteristic that seems to
be the germ from which sprung their abnor-
nal growth--iislke of honest work. ii
ness sud consequent determination TO sc;
. livirg BY their wits brought them where
they now are. The hours spent in planning
diabolical schemes. the terrible strain of the
toll necessary to execute what they hsd
planned. such labor mental and physi-
csl would break down the normal
Individual Injured to honest toll. In at
tsmp,iag to live BY one's wits in order to
avoid work, is voluntarily assuming the
task Of Sisyphus. Such an sttemp, il
pretty sure to entail its own revenge, never
thele.s. the person entertain ng this theory
of wing at the expense of others, becomes
n menace to society. Whenever il becomes
evident that any member Of society has
adopted that mode Of living the public As q
duty should look upon that person as ct
subject for police espionsge.