The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-04-22
THE YAKIMA HERALD.
TUESDAY. APRIL Is, 1902.
HE Is IN HEAVEN!
Murderer Goes TO Paradise ana the Murdered
Wife Goes 10 H

rible one. The victim had been forced
to a life of prostitution by her husband,
and because she refused, finally, to con-
tinue the life for the pecuniary gain of
the man claiming her as his wife, he
killed her. She was cut, and slashed
and hacked to death with knife in the
hands of her villainous husband. He
was arrested, tried and convicted of
murder in the first degree, and the law
was accordingly executed. a Jealous
christian woman named Mrs. keppel
gained access to the condemned muir
dercr, and through her ministrations he
was converted and died repentant, and
Mrs Keppel preached his funeral SER
mon, in which she said Hinkle had been
went straight to heaven at the drop Of
his body from the scaffold, but failed to
say what had become of the soul OF
the helpless victim of the inhuman
fiend, who was sent out of this world
without any warning and no chance to
repent, and whose sins were not really
her own, but were directly attributable
to the wretch who so cruelty murdered
her. without repentance there can
be no salvation, is the doctrine OF re-
ligionists of Mrs. Keppel's school, but
why the repentant murderer should be
pardoned and his unrepentant victim
sent to hell has never vet been satisfac-
torily explained.
The day after the murderer was exc
cuted the Peoria Star gave the following
dissertation on the theory preached by
Mrs. Keppel. The irony the article
contains is remarkable. 1t shows plainly
that many Jealous christians preach
doctrines which common sense must
necessarily reject, and thereby work
great injury to the cause OF true religion a;
yesterday was Hinkle's first Sunday
| in Heaven.
Sunday with the saints, Sunday with
the martyrs, with the apostles, with the
myriad throng OF the redeemed. \
crown on his head, harp in his hand,
the folds of new white robe trailing
over the streets OF the New Jerusalem.
The first sunday OF an eternity OF song,
OF praise, of ecstatic joy. Happy, happy
Hinkle!
But where was the wretched woman
he sliced to pieces?
Down in the depths OF hell. Face to
face with all the horrors of the damned.
Sizzling in the roaring flames, but not
consumed, calling in her agony for a
drop Of water to cool her parched tongue.
Doomed thus to suffer through the count
less ages OF eternity-no hope, no re-
prieve, and, worst of all, no end.
Did not Dives look up from the lurid
light Of he'll and see Lazarus in Abra-
hams bosom? Did he not recognize
him and call upon him for a drop OF
water? 1t is So written.
What then? From the depths OF the
region OF the damned did that poor,
miserable, murdered Artie NJ. Hinkle
look up yesterday and see the man who
debauched her, who made her a prosti.
tute to support his worthless self, and
who finally carved her living, breathing
body into slices as she Vainly called upon
him for mercy did she see him there
robed, crowned, sweeping his harI
strings with deft fingers, singing tn,
song Of the redeemed and his angelic
face rejecting the glory Of the grea
white throne?
2 Five bleeding wounds He bears, re-
ceived ON Calvary" runs one Of these
songs OF the redeemed.
Artie NJ. Hinkle had four more thar
that Nine bleeding wounds she bears
received from the saint who is up ther,
| Is No a eli nra ,f hai
wounds eloquent OF pardon?
Not one. She died in her sins-th,
sins that were forced upon her by tn,
crowned convert with the harp-and tn,
hand that sweeps its strings was tn,
hand that clutched the knife and endeC
her wretched life before she had time I,
call upon her God for pardon Blu
Hinkle, the depraved wretch who wa
responsible for the woman's deadlies
: sins and the rapidity with which sh
was sent to hell before her lips coult
: utter the shortest prayer-ah Hinkl
had time to repent and so improved tn
| opportunity that he is up there so alb
sorbed in celestial Joy that he has n,
eye to see his victim bleeding from min
gaping wounds, no ear to hear her erie
of agony, nothing TO interfere for a singl
moment with his everlasting bliss.
Is this a square deal? Is this tn
justice Of God?
Mrs. keppel says it is. She preache,
Hinkle's funeral sermon yesterday an,
she told how he had been converted an,
how marked was the change that cam
over him, and how fluent he was il
prayer after that change came, and hoy
he walked bravely to the gallows in tn
hope and strength of the Lord, Jesu
Christ, and how his soul went straigh
q from the prison corridor to the realms O
everlasting glory.