The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-03-15
FRIDAY. MARCH Is. 1895.
nAywARo's CRIME.

Harry Hayward was ON Monday
sentenced to DO hanged, after three
months shall have elapsed and upon
the warrant Of the governor.
No public trial In later years has
been matter Of 90 much interest as
this, and when the testimony was all
10, and when Nye and Erwin had each
made their mastery and eloquent
pleas for the prosecution and defence,
the popular verdict was almost unan.
imously, guilty, and the jury with only
two hours formal deliberation, with
one ballot, agreed with the verdict Of
the public.
Perhaps the strongest argument for
the defence In the absence of testi-
mony, OF which the defence had but
little, was that Of Erwin who asked
the jury not to convict u man Of .
deed Of insanity, and yet deny him
the excuse Of insanity as defence.
The murder Of Miss Cling was doubt
less the deed Of an insane man. We
believe that all such premcditated,
cold-bloodcd, carefully.planned MUIR
dcrs are the result Of d,sordered
brains. At the time Of the commits
sion Of the act 1t may be very possible
that the author is irresponsible, that
he has lost that cool judgment that
distinguishes between right and
wrong, or even the calculation Of con.
sequences.
but we have parallei case 10
drunkenness. In law, when crime is
committed by 4 drunken man, his
confused state Of mind is no excuse,
because he had no right to lose that
control OF his senses which is neces-
sity to the. welfare aud safety Of
others. This is just as true In the
case Of criminal insanity. Such In.
sanity as that Of Guiteau, as that Of
the murderer Of Carter Harrison, us
that of the Cando murderer in this
state. US that Of Hayward, comes from
letting loose the reins Of imag tion,
Of morality, Of Judgment. long before
the crime is committed.
We believe that every human mind
has flashes Of insane thought lmssing
through it, ut times more or less FIRE.
quent, dependent perhaps ON the
temperament and circumstances Of
the person; and VIC believe In such
cases as cited, that these flashes Of
insane thought, which In persons Of
well balanced minds are banished III.
most instantaneously by u slight
exercise of will power, in these crimi-
nails are willfully aud willingly retain.
cd in the mind until they become
flames that overhead, destruy and
distort every part Of the mental facul.
ties. 1t takes will p,wcr to keep our
brains and thoughts straight, Just as
much and as certainly, as it does to
keep the body from toppling over in
the act Of standing on the feet.
The crime Of Harry Hayward was
committed when he first allowed him.
self to calculate and consider that the
death Of another human being could
be u benefit to himself or, even away
back Of that, ut the time when he
first allowed himself to harbor the
thought that anything he obtained in
this world, without Just compensa.
tion, would be gain.
No man has right to allow his
brains to become distorted by drink or
evil thoughts, and when Ifs brain be.
comes ri distorted, and he kills another
he Is KSlssaSo Ct Ra Stopped and We BE-
l'eve no more effectual means Of stop.
ping 1t exists, than the sight of one
Of Its victims hanging by the neck.