The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-11

/ end. money, money. she SAID con
vulsively aloud, money triumphed-" o
course no mother living would keep roo
to shelter her could her Last dollar pur
chase her child's freedom But justic
was perverted when it brought SLOW tor
| iure instead OF relief She knew sh
| could be successfully defeated in her ran
dom assertions. but under all was tina
| rock-like conviction that the legal ex
| FOUNDERS needed a higher scale OF right
eousness.
| Next morning. coming from break <ase
her lawyer friend saw her. and lifting hi.
hat gracefully. came from the office Il
the elevator
We'll, / suppose you have heard
No: 1 am late to breakfast, and ":
not seen he paper"
Hes convicted-first degree" He :riet
to say II calmly. but she observed q
strong effort TO steady his voi-e His
| life vii: be a matter OF about sixty days
after sentence"
''Br. you viii make another enorsy
Yes The mother won't give ZIP. But
she las nothing now he said. nerv0usly
passing his hand over his eyes.
'Ycu have not slept much" she said
not 50, cifously, but morbidly curious ID
know the effect the awful fate Of bis
client would produce noting the aIIsn ii
the saIlcw face above the beard, the
brightness OF the eyes. and the dewy Ier-
spira:iGn around them.
No, that's true. have not slept in
a week" Longing over against he eie-
yator side. with vehement force. he asked
angrily: But why should 1 care; he de-
serves it?' She knew he suppressed an
oath.
Deserves it-your client. Could you de-
fend him and not believe in him? Why
did you defend him? Why have you
hepe?" she asked. hurrying from owe
query to another. like a bird in flight,
with miles OF landscape beneath the single
wave of a wing.
He understood her. II was not him she
questioned. but his educa tors. He was
not angry.
HE was a good-that is fairly good
boy-you know-record good-when We
took the case four years ago, and he
would be free today only he has proved
thoroughly bad. I would rather have
prosecuted in this case" He grew flush
ed and vehement. II could have dug
my nails into him with greater relish
than get up before jury and
"Perture yourself?"
Not exactly; for we are not sworn
but attempt a defense of one who has
thrown himself 10 the devil. Pardon me,
/ pack my grip tonight. / am through"
Doesn't it occur to you lawyers that a
man is not wholly responsible, that hered-
ity and environment deserve their share
of the blame?"
mo; a sane man is responsible for
every act"
rs an idiot responsible for not being
bright; a pauper for not being rich?'
That is an extrvagant simile''
'Extrayagant IL must be to stop the
rushing thought for moment"
"A murderer Is predestined then, as 1
You mistake me. The awful temper
that causes murder is insanity. In most
cases doesn't the murderer awake with
horror to his crime? The temper is the
heredity. Environment, circumstances
offer the provocation-"
Then the mu rderer can't help that he
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{ There was slight irritation In her
face. He did not understand her at all
did not know that side by side with her
pleading tongue was a DEPRESSING thought
that IL she allowed speech might have
said, The sins of the fathers shall be J
visited upon the children" That while |
that thought should never have found ut |
terance, as placing the responsibility of |
crime upon the shoulders of the past, yet |
perhaps as the education of this one GRIM |
nal had not begun the required one hun
ired years back, that in extenuatfon he |
De granted mercy for the self that should l
have come to him perfect. She said in
stead:
Thousands of men go to battle: the acct
lent of position gives one safety; an
'ther a grave. The accident of associates,
he accident of hotter blood. the accident
II provocation. the accident of ready
Weapons. make murderers." Thoughts
anne surging. She could defend a muir
lerer for nothing; but she came suddenly
o a stop, with a burning blush
She had been tempted into an argument
he had not designed. and she was con-
cious that several had come from the Of
Ice and were listening in the corridor
he either wanted to get away or draw
he conversation from the other side, 50
he stammered:
'I beg your pardon: I meant TO criti-
ism, hut I feel sorry for the boy; worse
or his mother"
She did not want to express her thoughts
, him. Intuitiveiy she knew him to be
o hctter nor worse than the rest of his
rofession. The lawyer who vii. sub
srve a retainer fee TO righteousness was
n ideal she was sim 10 find She got 4
way and went 70 the parlor. where she
1und a crowd around the register. look I
* az OK Of Mrs Taylor's drawn work.
apkins and doylies.
The boy was convicted. ladies'"
YES. isn't it a shame" Mrs Young
Aid gEmly.
But they were silent and looked az Mrs.
1stin expecJantly.
IAN the men down stairs condemn him;
zen his Iswyers'' Her whole mind was
.eming with a food OF conviction. and
Dne OF her auditors were surprised az
lie overflow.
1T is zwfuI-It Is not thoughtIessness.
IL ignorance. They must not put wo-
81 in the jury box-nc. Justice might
ave no sacrifices; but IL would rot be
.ntimsntalty thai refuses TO serve. bgt
deeper thought. that goes from effect 20
use Only mothers can trace it-zot
thers. Il - the mothers soul thai sees
lde- the load OF infzmy and disgrace the
Ire white Of the soul that was smirchei
fore he was born Don't y0G believe
? Shall 7 ten you how Car you know
~ murder - boru in Cur ehildrsa-T :
SIT down. Mrs. Justin Why your
.n6s are cold = A IeebsrE- Grs. Raz-