New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
-lChicago Inter 49,.

would find the best solution which they did Count
pear ---- ~ Hp-
ress of this second trial will never forget their M
pressoRs press. AT the very beginning of it, re-
presiding Justice hesitatng lest the time involved
than should be expended the white haired veteran
VINO was pleading for human life sprang 70 his
be heard even yet, Thine your honor it is a ques-
1R Wben SI qne t5 or eternity III with my Client
out whose knowledge-this CRIME committed
assumed the witness chair, and for the first time
in many months stood face to face with the cring-
ing rascal in the dock. had there been present
Rembrandt or Dore. to have placed that scene on
canvas, picture would have been booked Tor i'm
Major was convicted OF murder in the first de-
gree, and executed IN the courtyard OF the State
lows he was in such coIlapse of terror that Sheriff
Eaton was compelled to carry him on his shoulders
awful convusions of pssoning by strychnia-the
drug of all others that tears and rends the body
OF its victims, leaving lucid the mind that not one
pang may be missed as It violently tears apart the
comes to bear very minute traction OF the suf-
cal fear, and is carried to his doom IN a state or
I know Of nothing in any view OF human nature
full of pathos and tragedy but yet or hopeful
is woman Of the Brahmin caste of England
L ;s. he nrasident Of the largest w9u1an's col
iege in the country herself of liberal culture tender
and by her presence vndicating her riaht be
%berao' evervtbing to live fer nothing beyond her
reach TO which women of her class might aspire.
All in n moment her Nfe is in ruins; she has made
a shipwreck OF the one thing which cannot De re
covered. and no Is more conscious OF Il than
herself 1t is easy write about this. hut Try 70
concentrate the imagination on the thouEht Tor an
instant and realize what a sweep u mares, how
one and the fringes attached 70 u Us 5
Ike tidal wave OF desolaton thIoCsA ~ en[I1e ~
existence In this way We gct very 81 col a.
ception Of what such shipwreck eanS, , @ 1letT S y
form OF transEressiOn SIS hers Is ~. wed VI 80
rigid intolerance. especially among Aet CHI -.
~ coincidence with means and fr ends IN apn aailce
should sne choose to disappear a-stlIi slu - 49,
where even Father Lagoon W9o!i! TOY ,I5 IlgTne
70 SsE3 go II ne wanted 10 "--O -''' -.,,
We do not reach the bottom Of this problem unit.
we remember that here was no lr1fnatltie yo-I55
sir1 yyhose outlook ou NE had beer limited and
Who knew not what she risked NettaeT ~ +t, Srlr
y ~ 1ahor OF some fnithful saint VINO
had awakened her conscience as LIle -. rrsuII H.. ~
vrhicb she had become q new crea
Sba S5,1' was a mature woman she knew perfectly
wei what before heT. WI EHaI ,,,I ii ~ bsr
would be; that no friend or ari ,irb4 be ther de-
sire: lhet ~ coiIrt or counseI-and they strove
on .lS Pph other to extend it-could make black
it W. a. change the hard. cruel TACT that beyond
th doors OF the court room stretched tIe IN. oL
srsois tilT ne hest she might and gather her own
snargIes rhe better 10 guide anu Steady the teet
of the little toddler whqra r. sle ~" I S. ~ 1,,9 s
This STRUGGLING world and for Waose sake sht must
& Hils & S7racT all that was left Of life heart and
strength aud wisdom were given gi,,s her. -, ,.,,,-
into flris historic crime, the sdeEght tnat pours
n ,serv nond OF radiance IS the recognition of the
fact that Though with love came si:+ with sin
came death with death a curse. as the otd ieSend
Ems nevsrtheess, there is sight which this
Tyorld that sees so much that Is narrowing and
troefr' ever Witnesses that contains more of the
.t,v ,,bsn h wrecked Hta gathers its now
ers looks fate aad c!rcnniatht-es cal.'iy ~ the
face. neither with eeHa1ee h9f ear, cut quietly
neither be resisted evaded-
she had only stife her sense Of justice 70 hold