The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-02-21
II GREAT DESTROYER
SOME. STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE or lNTEMoER&kCE.
tudSe F~errand's Impressive Words When
sentencing Il Youth 20 Thirty Years.
Jmorisonmer For u Murder Come
mittni NYhiie intoxicated.

sentencing; - iOuth 20 thirty
imprisonment For u Murder Coms
mittet While Intoxicated.
There WAS an impressive scene IL the
Circuit Court at Ottawa. ILL.,. when
Judge Farraud sentenced Thomas Bun
Gy TO thirty years imprisonment i'll the
Joliet pcnitCntiary. Bundy. VINO Is
but twenty-onc years Of age, had been
indicted for the murder Of Adolphus
Rock. of Stleator. The crime was the
outcome Of 4 drunken row. Bundy en-
tered 4 plea OF guilty ard threw him.
self on the mercy Of the court.
After briefly reviewing the evidence
the judge said:
Last January. ut Dixon, q young
man Of your age stood before ME to re-
ceive his sentence on a plea of guilty to
the crime Of murder. What l said to
him then l want to, in part, say to you
now; he was Intoxicated when he COM
mitted the crime, as l believe you were
when you committed the offense to
which you have entered. the plea OF
guilty. IntOxicatiOn is no defense in
this case. The young maj who, at
your age, has become 4 frequenter Of
saloons, and q habitual drinker Of in
toXicating liquors, is almost certain OF
moral death before he reaches mature
manhood. Could l speak to the young
men of the nation, l would beg of them
to shun the saloon; let not its shadows
fall upon you; they will blight and
finally destroy your young manhood.
There are two great lights which
should always control the court. First,
justice; second. humanity. I have CIV
I'll much thought in my effort to deter
mine what justice demands, what hui
mainly asks. in this case. We cannot
bring back the dead. A life has been
taken by you, and the lifeleSs body Of
one has been laid in the grave, and if
it comes again it must be only when
God commands that the earth and the
seas give up their dead.
we are to deal alone with the living.
During the progress of this trial there
has been a picture constantly before us
which has caused the court to think
deeply of the mystery Of life and the
tragedy and sorrow of death. Upon
one side the father and mother Of the
one who sleeps; upon the other, those
who love you; all Borrowing; some for
the dead, others for the living, and it is
difficult to determine which of the sor.
rowing mes suffer the greater grief.
"All his has come because of your
cruel act, but through and beyond the
sorrow and tears of grief. the court
must look alone to the evidence and
there scare. for the light which leads
to the right.
You I q young man, having just
passed your twenty-tirst year. In law
You have recently stepped from the
scene Of childhood to the more digni-
fed and responsible one of manhood,
yet with mental powers sufficient to
discern and follow the right and to
know the consequence Of such q crime
as You have committed.
Under the sentence I am about to
impose you shall have ample time
while in prison to think of the past and
mediate on the future. Day by day.
week by week, month by month, and
year by year, until the sands in the
dial of your life have run low, you
shall wear the garb Of q prisoner; the
narrow walls Of the cell shall be your
abiding place. When the iron gates
close behind you, the beauties of life
and the grandeur Of nature shall be
hidden from you, and home and mother
will he only memories. But let them
be sweet memories. Remember the
teachings and virtues of that mother.
whose heart you have broken. Her
love will follow you and bless you in
your darkest hours. | sometimes feel
that a mothers love has in it the spark
of divinity. I know not the time or
place when or where the love of q pure
mother will not enfoll her child. Tn
der the influence Of that love prepare
yet to live according to her prayers and
her teachings.
There is q God in heaven whose in
finite power and tender mercy can and
will penetrate the gloom of a prison
cell.
His power enables Him to search
and know the human heart. You have
transgressed His laws; He alone can
give you solace in the coming years Of
grief"