The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-06

hdIltI, lo diSV NASA ON
today. in South Jersey.
These men richly deserved their fate
and all the obloquy that accompanied it..
Their only use in the world is to serve
to their evil instincts and passions. They
serve to show that violence, dishon-
esty. intemperance and lewdness newt
ably bring disaster and disgrace.
IN the case of Altenberger, the ira
ditional infexibility of Jersey justice is
indicated. On Sunday, May 10, he COM
mitted the crime of numbering Katie
Rupp. 1t was a most cowardly and
yillainous act. Every detail contributed
to increase its abomination. The fact
that the victim was a woman, the gross
deception which preceded the shooting,
the circumstance that the woman had
given no provocation whatever for the
deed. but on the contrary had reposed
all her love and trust in her murderer,
all contributed to make the crime one
of the blacklist on record.
But the penalty has been almost Sc
we're enough to punish even such atrocity.
Ahenberger has gone through three
months of mental torture, which prob
ably passes the imagination of those who
have never endured it. Much of the
time, he was in abject paroxysms of
terror. His letters seem to show that
he faced his death with a selfish but
very clear realization of it's horrors.
Less than four months have elapsed
since the day of his crime. and he has
already expiated it, as far as this world
gees. If the process of the law were
equally prompt on every occasion, there
would be fewer murders.
THE extra published by a local sheet
on Montgomery street this morning was
one of the most rnpudent fakes ever
imposed upon the public. 1t contained
s no facts whatever about the hanging.
How could it? 1t was printed at $50.
thirty-four minutes before the drop fell,
and was just held back until a telephone
message was received that the execu-
ton had taken place. For all that was
I'M it in the way of news, it might have
been printed yesterday. The people
quickly .'got on to the imposture, and
the boys could not sell the fake.
"The News shows its enterprise, not
by taking an extra at a time when it
~ -. -,;-+ Ia,a- apxr1 FE hut
by giving in its regular edition a full
and true account of the dread execution
of the law,
THE INSIDE story OF the Davis
= free excursion is coming out now 1t
shows that so much of the expense
rs was not covered by the sale
Of the bar privileges was assessed
upon the politicians who still cling. TO
the old boss. Davis has one remarkable
quality Of leadership that is almost Ma
poleonic; it is his wonderful faculty Of
getting out everything that is in his fol-
lowers for his own benefit.
SENATOR JONES of Nevada has de-
serted the Republican party and gone
oyer to the populists. The event is not
an important one in itself. Jones is a
blatant old donkey, as crazy on the silver
question as DR.. McGlynn is upon the
land tax. But the significance of his
secession is in its illustration of the man
ner in which the party of false %pretences
is losing its grip on the Western States.
A NEW Illustration of the old estab-
l;shed fact that Newark is the wickedest
sity in the State is afforded by the pres
snt overcrowded condition of the Essex
County, Jailsf We learn from current
issues of the Newark papers hat three
women. Mamie Reilly, Rosa Lahey and
Jennie Weisbach. arrested in a RAID on
the .sPoint House." at River street and
Railroad place, on Wednesday last, and
committed for ninety days each, are held
at police headquarters because there is
said to be no room for them at the jail,
and Chairman Hanley, of the jail In
spection Committee, will not permit the
Warden OF. the Penitentiary to receive
them,
This is sehocking. DR.. scudder ought
10 transfer the scene of his labors tc
Newark. He would ind a far better field
Tor his peculiar methods there than here,