The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-30
December 30, 1907.
k OF w. F. WALKER.

k OF w. F. WALKER.
 reported that William F.
 not be extradited if he inc securities which it is
 las taken. These are said
 n-negotiable character If
 true it is natural to in
 Is position is taken after
 lire of much money in
 Jim over land and sea- It
 that it is not so much
 lo is wanted as the securi-
 isy to understand how those
 with him for years in New
 4 whose duty it is to prose-
 may find It an exceedingly
 ask to confront him with his
 nd to demand the full penal
 lstice, in view of the long re-
 Id friendship they have had for
 .n. There is. very likely, the
 ltion to blend mercy and chari-
 h justice. But the crime of Will F. Walker is not alone for, those mediately affected to consider. It also crime against society. In an ge like this. when institutional life Is o closely knit together, what affects he affects all in a sense. unknown be- ore. For the protection of society and in order to provide warning to FSyks the law visits with proper pun N Rt any who violate it.
 | lie story of Walker IS not known, N lere is any truth in the report that | printed by a New York paper on N Jay that Walker was himself vic | who was easily influenced by a |T tidence man who selected him as an ssy mark,' 1t is well to await his nv before employing too many rsh words in excoriating him. It is Yell and right any way to hear him Al1is own defense, however clear the lrge against him may appear to be. latever he himself is suffering all kiy and has suffered these months constitute the ~ keenest punish js Man Can have. As matter an law he may be cast into but this formal punishment to the decrees of society is not a
 of the punishment that comes 5ugh remorse of conscience which &E leads a man to make attempt on his Town life. The penalty of moral law violated is memorable. There is nothing formal about 1t. It is stern reality
 The eyes of the world have follow ed William F. Walker from place to place. The detectives, like hounds on the trail, have followed in hot pur- suit, closely watching for every sign of his passing. It could not have been a pleasant life for Walker, in con- sstant dread of discovery and knowing that he was fugitive from justice; preferring to take his chances of es- cape rather than face his old friends and those he had wronged, come what might The world has known the out. 
 ward story, but the inner struggle o1 the mans soul it is difficult to lay bare. It is a pathetic picture; this mar of years, when his whitening head should be his crown of glory, Is hum bled in the dust. It is the old story over again; the temptation to appro. priate the funds of others held il ,trust; the speculation, with full pur
 to make good when the golder
 I'm shall return; then the awfu ,ening and flight from justice. T, an of conscience the pain of sou Ge awakening is exquisite when h.
 sa reputation built by years of toi led by single act; when befor & mental vision must appear tn ressed faces of those he ha nged; the judgment bar of his fel 5, and the yawning prison door
 ng to receive him. The conflict isr4e storm and stress of Walker Whe not for his felbowmen to gag
 is not at all necessary to wal
 Khother life after death to knov { torments of hell,
 It is inconceivable that William r Walker could have passed so much c his life under the influence of mora and Christian truth, and himself di rectly giving of his time and energ in encouraging them, without possess Ing trained and sensitive conscienc, : By a deliberate act of his own h precipitates the greatest struggle C his soul-the tragedy of his life Lt T us hope that as a result of his fall h may come to repentance. That was fine act of members of the Connect T cut Baptist State convention at its las meeting in Putnam. After it was ar bounced that the amount taken b Walker fyom its treasury had been rt vi year of hard work an Hs khce, prayer was offered that tn En might be reclaimed, and word sadness rather than hafsnness wer e boken, In the Christian relationship