Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
TRIAL OF MOLINEUX
WAS ATTENDED BY TEN OF FAIR
SEX TO ONE OF MALE.
Tammany in the Ascendancy in the
Metropolis-Riot of Vice
Under Low

NEW YORK. November u.

der cases on trial. to morgues immedi-
ately after cruel disasters. and TO the under
takers funerals of unfortunate individuals
who have been overtaken by death in their
Infancy, seems to be far more diStinCtiyeiy
a feminine trait in New York than mas
culine one
There is an astonishing number of queer.
nondescript women of all ages and condI-
tons over here who have the veritable vul-
ture instinct for death or impending DEATH
For example. the morning after the
frightful explosion of fireworks in Madison
square Park the park was almost impassa-
bic on account of the great crowd of morbid
women who with no possible business In the
neis;hhorhood, lowered around the horrify-
ing scene. and with little apparent distress
OF mind gazed at the assembling of cruelty
torn limbs by the men paid to do that work
Ten Women to One Man.
There were ten women in the park on that
morning to man. and rough-looking
men by the score were observed to make
wide detours so as to not be compelled to
look upon that scene OF death and sorrow
Every time there is great disaster in New
York, such as the falling of building, the
blowing up of a manufacturing plant or a
subway horror involving the death of many
labOrers, the sudderness with which the wo-
men gather at the scene has been comment
ed upon.
They are not women In search OF possibly
killed or manned loved ones, but for the
most part they are well-dressed females,
bearing at least the outer mark of refine
ment and prosperity. And their utter I'M
concern in full view Of scenes that test the
strength and nerve of men well used to
scenes of violence and death is a source OF
Wonderment TO medical who have
studied them.
1t is a wel-known fact that in every
community there are numbers OF elderly
Women-generally women who have suf-
| fered many deprivations and losses, and
whose Journeys through life have been diff
cult ones-who exhibit n more or less alb
normal fondness for attending funerals not
only the funerals of former friends but of
total strangers. The feeling which prompts
such elderly women TO virtually pass their
days within the shadow Of death is not too
difficult to understands; but the actuating
impulse which guides literally thousands OF
New York women to the most distressing
scenes, and which Will permit them to st
through the most distressing criminal trials
for days and weeks at a stretch Is con-
fessedly too deep for the solution OF a good
many trained lawyers and medical men over
here who have tackled the problem.
At the Molineux Trial
During the last two or three weeks Of ths
Molineux trial from four to eight thousand
women, most OF them well dressed and
bearing exterior evidences OF being pos
SCISSORS of comfortable homes stormed with
all but AmaZonian fury the gates of the
big criminal court building and on several
days 1t required less than 800 of the
most capable cops on the New York force
to handle these fercely determined women.
The conduct of these women was unbe
1ievably gross and ferocious. and the calm
and deliberate manner with which they
ignored every request of the officers and
put aside every appeal that made to
their womanhood by the court bailiffs was
something curious to witness. More savage,
more determined, than A crowd of excited
a III gallSrVitpS n fOrce
their way out of theater, in which the cry
of fire had rung out, were these modishly
arrayed women struggling for the mere OPP
portunity to have their ears RECALLED with
testimony that was largely made up OF
sha meless degeneracy.
The several morguekeepers OF New York
say that at least twenty women pay fire.
quent visits to these institutions where one
man crosses the threshold of of them
out of mere curiosity. Indeed il Is no I'M
common thing to see as many as half a
dozen rich equipages, bearing the elab-
crate heraldic devices of some of the most
prominent society women in New York.
outside the Bellevue morgue. at the foot OF
East Goth street, when there is no possible
reason other than sort of neurasthenio
morbidity.
Passes to His Cell.
What is there in the character or make
I'D of vile, sodden wife destroyer that
appears to appeal with such irresistible
force to the nature of delicate. datnttly
reared women? Down In the Tombs at tho
present time there is great hulking beast
Of longshoreman, who not long ago beat
his wife to death under circumstances OF
such abomnable cruelty that one cannot
even bring himself to recite the details OF
the crime This fellow Is on the sure road
to the electric chair.
There wasn't single mitigating fact in
connection with his appalling deed. and 1t
will only be with difficulty that he Will succeed
in having counsel assigned for his defense
when his case comes to trial. He is SO
total and complete human devil that Bill
Sykes seems almost a humanitarian and a
respectable citizen alongside Of him. Well,
this utter brute is receiving daily visits
from nearly dozen morbidly sympa thetio
women.
They are taking posies to his cell. and pet
ting him. and reading to him, and palaver-
ing over and huggermuggering with him
in a manner that makes the wardens and
turkeys of the Tombs-fellows only too
willing to give what they term the de
cent grade Of criminal something better
than fair show-exp- ess their disgust out
right in the presence Of the women. But
the women have passes through the prison
signed by influential individuals, and they
cannot be gainsaid when they present their
tickets emitting them to make over this
singularly detestable animal
Tammany in the Ascendant.
It Is conceded as a virtual certainty by
the republican party managers, municipal
and state that Tammany is to regain con-
ton. The phenomenal plurality given by
Greater New York to comparatively I'M
popular man as Mr.. Coler in his run for
the governorship is universally accepted on
all sides as a positive indication of which
way the political wind is blowing and Tam
many comes out of the fray-as it has come
out so many times before-with banners
waving and prestige hundredfold ampu-
fed.
1t would be useless to attempt to dis
pute the fact that the utterly nerveless and
spineless administration of the so-called
fusion city government has been response
BILE for this almost revolutionary state
of sentiment In Greater New York.
1t would really be impossible to con-
lecture a greater fiasco than Mr.. Low
and his helpers have made Of the
government of New York since the COM
munity installed them in power with such
saIutary unanimity The conduct of the
city's affairs has been simply cluttered with
mistakes and the general jellyfish policy
has been so obvious to all men that even
the most ardent supporters of the fusipn
outfit fell away from the combination al
most before the ink was dry on the COM
missions OF the new official incumbents.
The control by protection" which Tam
many had of the evil elements OF the town
almost Immediately the Low
administration took IN the reins of mower.