Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-18
DELAYS OF THE LAW
Criminal ] Justice Moves Slow
ly in Gotham.
SOME STRIKING GASES
WAVE OF VULGAR PLAYS
swAMPS CITY.
G. A. r. Veterans on Return From
Encampment Loud in Praise
of Washington.
SOME STRIKING CASES
WAVE OF VULGAR
SWAMPS CITY.


Special CORRESPONDENCE Of The Evening Star.
| NEW YORK, October Il. 1902.
| Some of these days the Jaws delay is
going to be a campaign issue in the state of
| New York. There signs that this
| procrastinating and trouble-eyading popu-
| lation is wearyiug Of the ancient. outworn
and frivolous judicial system of New York
state IF you would do away with your
enemy, entice him to New York. was the
sarcastic phrase that a member of the Bar
| Association employed recently in replying
to the toast, The New York Bar When
| the conservative citizen of New York COM
pares the prevailing New York method of
Furnishing criminals with the stern strong
and rapid system in vogue in the contigu-
Gus state of New Jersey. he pauses to re-
| fleet that the boosted supremacy of the
empire state in respect to it's enforcement
of the law is a good deal on the farcical
side.
| The Tombs is simply cluttered and in
numbered with convicted murderers cody
| awaiting the outcome of appeal upon APP
peal. There seems to be no end to the re-
sources of the Individual who accomplishes
foul murder in the city or state of New
! York. There is now being rehashed in one
of the criminal courts of New York cee-
brated case that in most of the other states
OF the Union would have passed from pub
| universal throughout the town that con-
v1cted poisoner is going to be whitewashed
| on his second trial for his life, even the at
torneys for the state publicly announcing
| IN advance the hopelessness of their plans
| for another conviction. 1t is being con-
| stantly forced upon the intelligence of the
| New YORK taxpayer that there is not one
chance in hundred of imposing severe pun
| ishment upon public criminal who has
| money to back aim up in his efforts to
| dodge the law The Tombs now contains
! Texas lawyer, who has been convicted of
| chloroforming an aged millionaire to his
death. His case has been protracted al
| most as long as that of the convicted send
er of poisons through the mails, and there
is not a sensible man In New York who
believes that this accomplished murderer
from Texas VIII ever go to the chair
A Particularly Atrocious Case
Only few weeks ago a Mormon degener-
| ate of almost unspeakabIe vileness muir
dered a woman under circumstances of
such awful atrocity that one dislikes even
to recall the case. This fellow is now play
ing the lunatic in his cell, while there Is
being assembled for his defense an array
| of lawyers. summoned at the behest of the
wealthy Mormon Church, capable of win
ming almost any case.
| few years ago a woman of n more or
less faded reputation was foully murdered
| in New York hotel. The Staten Island
dentist who was accused of having killed
her was compelled to listen to testimony
| during the progress of his first trial that
would have hung in any other state man
of hitherto blameless life And yet the
| jury disagreed, and when the jury's dis
| agreement was made known the moneyed
| friends of the indicted man did not hest
| tate to extend their congratulations pub
| licly, in the hallway of the criminal court
| building. to two members of the disagreeing
| jury. In the face of the most overwhelm-
| Ing testimony against the dentist public
| subscriptions were taken up for him on
l a ron nj Enf vxyffh ,I,1r
! Of half dozen Of America S ablest lawyers
| at his back the man slipped the moose on
! the occasion of his second trial. and, after
| the disagreement, was turned loose upon
| society
| Atrocious crimes are becoming SO ordi-
| nary in New York that there cannot fail
| to be an early demand for their prompt and
| salutary punishment, and 1t seems fairly
| certain that the politicians of both parties
will be lending ear to the growls which
bipartisan New Workers are emitting with
| respect to the financial favoritism of New
| York criminal law.
'Cohmopolitanism" in New York.
"Cosmopolitanismr is a word that is used
a good deal over here. The word is en-
pIoyed very generally as sort of mantle
wherewith to cover the vulgarity of a
mixed population.
| This is a town of so many nationalities,"
the New Yorker tells you that you can't
expect to find all hands decorous At least
one-fourth of our population consists of
born barbarans."
This is perhaps satisfactory explanation
| of the public manners of this populace.
| which, to be polite, are of the rudest and
| the most common Now however the the
atrical press agents are telling that the
| "cosmopoltanism' of New York makes a
natural and thriving soil for theatrical dirt.
The science of public morals these
chaps indite. lis deader than the Egyptian
| art of embalming. The sooner the play
| goers of the United States respond to the
| realistic keynote that has been sounded on
| the continent of Europe, the sooner will
| they be absorbed into the spirit that reigns
| today" etc, etc.
1t has come to pass that no drama
| achieves an actual success in New York
unless it deals with the devil of masculine
| ard feminine dissipation. One seems to de-
| rive from most of the plays on the
| New York boards that all men of the world
are blackguardS and that most of the pre-
! sentable women contriving to live well
on nothing a year. The sacred osculator
exercises which self-respecting men and
| women reserve unto themselves are dwelt
upon with wealth of detail in some of the
| plays of this season in a fashion calculated
| to cause a respectable citizen to make UP
| his mind never to kiss his wife again.
| Several of the theatrical managers MAIN
| tain that Washington is the best dog
! whereupon to try dramatic product. 1t
will be interesting to note the reception
| which Washington extends to at least three
| of the wholly vile plays which are now be-
! ing enacted in New York and which are
| due to swoop upon washington this winter.
Falling Off in Registration
| The tremendous falling off in the registra-
! ton figures exhibits the total listlessness of
| New York this year in the campaign issues
/ New York, 1t must be said, is in state of
political stupefaction. 1t has made all sorts
of efforts to reform itself and it has at
| tempted to accomplish more than the tasks
| of Hercules but it still finds it's entire fran
/
most completely hereditary republicans are
| complaining of the futility of the present
| administration to restrain vice, and the
| most hopeless democrats openly MAIN
| tanning that New York under Tammany
| was cleaner city than 1t is under the
| guidance of it's present Administered ton 1t
would be difficult to imagine more indf-
! feFent popula ton than that of New York at
| the present time On the one hand. If the
| drift is toward the republican camp there
| Is to be fo.mG the merest realization of