The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-10
FEMININE NATURE FINDS
BRUTAL CRIME ALLURlNG
Woman viii Send Flowers and Notes to Confessed MurdererS
Young Girls will Marry Men Who Are Known Whe-beaters.

bwv HE perpdrator OF IN Of the ghasthest murders OF the emes Is. oersns
considerable. pleasure from a daily voluminous mail th serves TO
din occupy his time pretty thoroughly. Needless to say N letters are
from women-no real mn would consider it decent to hold n communication
a monastery who not only killed his WIFE but maltreated the body. Men nave
a curious Ems OF honor that bids them stand by each other in alc conditions, but
many of them d it with aversiona and in the shortest way possible.
There is also a curious strain in feminine naturet that finds cruelty and
brutality anu1ing 1t makes very little difference whether a murderer is ugly or
handsome-the fact that he has dyed his hands IN blood is all that's counts The
widow of a mar who vas murdered by an envious brother told me tina dehcae
we'll drMsed women, some of them extremely pretty used to han about the
courtroom when he was being tried for hsh life, just for thu privilege OF a hand-
shake or a few Words from the creatures lips. He ws repuhive and well n
toward the middle ne, and there "a a adoring crowd of women at his heels
at every turn. His guards used 10 declare that tit made them ILL., n presume
such a waste If sentiment was nauseatng. s
1 I'm almost inclined to he belief that mena are precisely what Won desire
them to De- A wifebeatr can cory confess his faults and pick another victim
creatures The mn who has worried N woman into Ter grave by his mean
nessc car usually marryh her best friend nd confdante The wall of a bride that
she thought the nan she married would De a loving, faithful husban was
humorous, in view of In fact that he deliberately sacrificed a good wffet to marry
the silly woman. Evidently she expected better treatment than she knew him
capable of giving or, perhaps, The found it less attractive on intimate acqudnt-
ance
We have lot got so very far away from the Oriental belief in the inferioity
of women 1t is our w famt this men think they can threat us as they please
and be forgiven beforehand. When a fun-loving bachelor can get years of
amusement from a tide Of answers to his matrimonial advertisement In al
obscure weekly paper-a circumstance 1 happen to know-there is little hope of
an increase of respect for our SEX, is there? Think Of women h ire eagr to
tie themselves to strangers whose faces they LAY never seen! Why, there's ire
thousands of them, of all ags an Of varying degrees OF good looks, probably
the very women who feel 10 shame in writing letters of sympathy to urderers
Burglars do not fares as well. say Betty Bradeen. An occasional sentimental
female pofesses al interest IN the class, put h is too prosaicH for an enlarged
bump of sentiment, even when he is goodlooking. There must be a slamor
about shocking brutality, for N Of the memories of m y childhood concerns the
visit 1 nee paid to a Jail with an elderly woman who ws known as the muir
derers friend. She was rich and highly respected, a church member AM a liberal
spender-on thec class to which, he vas attracted, and there were some dreadful
membersn it How do you account for Ter perverted tastes?