Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-24
PASTOR SCORES
CHILD MURDERER
DOCTOR HENRY breaches ON
FIENDISH CRIMES
BRUTAL Staying OF ANNA POL
TERRA FURNISHES THEME
Minister Asks for Mercy from ProVi-
dence for Assassin, If Found, for
Public Is Likely to Wreak
Vengeance

That Rev. ]. Q. A. Henry, D. D.,
pastor of the First Baptist church, be-
lieves the murderer of Anna Poltera
should be summarily dealth with is
evidenced in the prelude on fiendish
crimes which he presented to his con-
gregation yesterday. In the early part
of his address Mr. Henry said: "If
the murderer is discovered, may God
have mercy on his soul, for his body
is more than likely to be torn to pieces
by an outraged public
Rev. DR.. Henry also said: 1--WE
legislate to protect the fish of the sea
and the birds of the air with far more
concern and success than we do to
defend the home, protect the innocency
of childhood, the nobility of woman
hood or the dignity of manhood"
1.-The mark of CAIN" began DR.. Hen
ry, lis still on the race. Murder is
contemporaneous with every age.
CHASTITY crimes continue to blot the
pages of history. With all our boast
ed progress, we have been powerless
to eliminate the spirit of brutality and
hate.
mo crime has ever shocked this
community more than the brutal out
rage and hellish murder of little Anna
Poltera. No word can describe the
horror we all feel and no vengeance
that could be wreaked on the perpe-
traitor of this diabolical deed would
avenge the innocence violated or the
little life destroyed.
eff the murderer is discovered may
God have mercy on his soul, for his
body is more than likely to be torn to
pieces by an outraged public.
Crime Has Few Equals
This fiendish crime finds its coun-
terpart in the ravages of drink, the
slaughter of the innocents in all ages
by vice and crime the prosecutions of
the papacy, the scourge of Turkey. the
sword of the Moslem, the atrocities in
Armenia, the assassination of Poland
and the crucifxion of Christ.
There is hell in every heart, and
a blood thirsty tiger in every soul.
Every nation has it's cockpit, where
murder, suicide, rapine, bestiality
drunkenness and debauchery hold high
carnival.
lone prolific cause of such internal
cruelty is found i'll the unregulated and
evil passions of man-ofttimes set on
fire of hell by strong drink and sala-
cious reading. Then our estimates of
life are too cheap. The price we put
on purity is often paltry. We legislate
to protect the fish of the sea and the
birds of the air with far more concern
and success than we do to defend the
home, protect the innocency of child
hood, the nobility of womanhood or the
dignity of manhood.
Frequently our police protection is
inadequate, our custoGianS of the law
are corrupt, our clean citizens are in
different, our courts are responsible for
the delay or miscarriage of justice, and
the whole administration of govern
ment is in the hands of a horde of viii
lains political parasites and moral
monsters.
1.-The human heart is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked
This wicked heart explains it all. Sin
is a hideous reality; moral obliquity is
a revolving fact. The devil is a terri
BILE tyrant; his rule is written in hui
man blood. The biggest, blacklist, ug-
Hest fact of life is sin. Not mere
negative of the good, but a positive,
ferocious, damnable and self -propa-
eating power so pitiless, so murderous
and so mighty that it requires the con-
quering and cleansing energy of the
blood of Calvary's cross to subdue it's
strength, curb it's passion, dethrone it's
master and save its victim from out
breaking and scandalous sin.
"Can any one possessing intellectual
and moral sanity read the simple rec
ord of Anna Poltera's vicious assault
and ghoulish mutilation and murder
and still deny the awful reality of sin,
suffering and death? Impossible And
the effort to school the race in such
moral jugglery gives the lie to his
tory, insults the deepest experiences of
the soul, contravenes the plain teach
ing of scripture and is a libel on the
love of God which gave Christ to the
cross to put away sin and abolish
DEATH