Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-02-21
CUPID WITH A GUN.

as any man. but on the sub
ject Of the murdered Madge
Yorke he was undoubtedly as luny
as any inmate of Bedlam, or as
auy man. who is madly in love and in
saacv Jealous. certainly is. 1t seems
hardly fair to hold a man i'm such a
condition responsible for his deeds.
Yet. Genry's deed was undoubtedly
murder deliberately planned and eX-
ecuted
There is no use in trying to probe in
TO- the motives of a man who commits
such crime as GenUy's under such
circumstances, any more than there is
i'm attempting to fathom the aims and
ends OF q hopeless maniac. My God,
how I love that girlr Gentry exclaimed
to a friend, and then ne got a pistol
and shot her TO death, as if TO prove
it, and afterwards attempted suicide.
That is about all there is i'm the case
from start to finish.
liza man is to- be dealt with leniently
who commits a crime under the in
Gucuce of plain, everyday liquor, are
there not also extenuating crcum-
stances to be found in the case of a
poor wretch who commits crime under
the influence of the mad intoxicant
administered by Dan Cupid and while
ridden by the frightful green-eyed
monster of jealousy? Verify, the
wretch. i'm the latter instance, would
seem to be an object more of pity than
anything else. Yet on the other hand,
NE is uuQuestionably a sane and re-
sDonsible man as he stands before the
jury. who must pass upon his guilt
or innocence as to the crime of DELHI
crate murder. 1t is a most perplexing
point, indeed and We grayely doubt
if it will be ever satisfactorily settled
in the criminal courts.
It is one Of the never-ending series
of old, yet ever new. conundrums
which Cupid is always propoundng to
poor humanity
We have the highest admiration, re-
spect and reverence for the little god
of love, but ne would be an infinitely
more agreeable and less dangerous
chap if he would never carry a gun.
EX-GOV. PATTISONS DEFEAT.
Three times had Robert L. Pattison
been called in the past by the people of
Philadelphia. or Pennsylvania, to adj
minister a high office in the interest of
good government and reform. And
three times had ne proven himself
worthy o. the high confidence rep0sed
i'm him by the people of that great Re
publican commonwealth.
But they never needed his pure and
incorrupuble influence more than they
do to-day in the office of mayor Of Phil
adeIphia. the second highest Office in
the gift Of the people Of the keystone
State. when the community is in the
grasp Of a band of political thieves and
dssperadoes. compared to whom Tam
many Hall i'm New York was a right
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