Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-30

Saughterlngs, as Il
matter Of fact, were
very unusual But
You'll not get line about them down in
Washington. Nothing like that at all.
Nor will there be more than bare line
or so about these murder trials In the
New York papers. It'll be:
Pat Malone. accused Of having tossed
a lighted lamp at his wife, so incineratlnS
her that she died few minutes later. was
put on trial in part IL today for the
crime.
That's all. Any number of things. at
that. are liable to happen to Pat Malone
whose name is fanciful-used merely Tor
purposes of illustration.
If Pats "a busy gink' around the polls
on election days. why, his fr lnds Will sort
of group themselves around the tr1al
Judge or the jury. and presently the New
York papers will contain a line. down be-
low some small shoe ad., stating tnat
Pat Malone was acquitted yesterday OF In
GENERATING his spouse, on the ground Of
er-well. on the ground or, that S all.
Or maybe Pat hasn't got any.pull wortf
mentioning. Then you'll read line here
stating that he was convicted. but that
the Jury recommended him to the courts
mercy on the ground, presumably, that
the wood alcohol he had been consuming
before chucking the lamp at the VIE or
his bosom was adulterated. thus MAKING
Pat irresponsible at the moment he caused
the domestic holocaust.
Or. about two months later: therein be
lust little stuff like this in the New
York papers:
Pat Malone went to the chair at sing
Sing this morning for the murder or his
wife. He ate hearty breakfast OF nam
and eggs and two cups of coffee. bade
goodbye to the warden. smoked good
cigar and And so sOn.
But nary a one Of these forty-two muir
derers will have the citation Of wide pub
licity during his trials progress Therein
be no .'alienists'' to testify. There'll be
no hoarse weepful lawyers quoting ponies
and inventing phrases like dementia
Americana and "nuttus furioso' and
things. There'll be no sob squad OF news
paper women writing reams and reams OF
watery, maudlin junk about the prison
er's eyebrows and protrusive ears and so
on every day- Therell be no damned
courtrooms, with cordons OF cops outside
the courtroom doors fighting back the
mobs of morbid women who just naturally
love to attend murder trials and to lister
20 salacious or gruesome testimony.
There'il be no bank heads In the news
papers verbatim reported testimony. talk
about the affair on street cars and sub
way trains to the exclusion or everything
else and all the rest of the accompani-
ments OF murder trials in New York that
are different"
The murder trials in New York that are
"different' as YOU of course. know. are
those In which the principals are there
with a bank roll or are socially proni-
nent"
The poor devils who kill out of passion.
or a proven sense of injury. or for rea-
sons that are infallibly more iustihable
than those ever furnished by the people
who have the big. nauseatinR trla's,the
poor devils go their WAYS. to the chair
or to state prison for life. and no one
knows or cares.
Cant Peter Hams doesn't count among
the fortv-two I have mentioned because
his trial doesn't come under the Man
haitian jurisdiction. You'll hear lots and
lots about that trial-more than you'll
ever want to hear.
But the unfortunates. the "mlserables."
the obscure the broken. the always
neglected and ill-nourished murderers-
why. they're trooping across the bridge OF
signs in SQUADS every single day. bless
YOU. and liz OIL Moo Yawk never knows
word of IT,
And vet I seem to remember having
heard prefervid campaign orators. only
little while ago. hoarsely iteratng that
their parties stood for equal justice FOR
all. rich and poor alike. before the law.
and a few other caloric vaporings Of
similar essence.
One doesn't have TO align himself with
the croakers and the pointers with alarm
and the calamityites 10 state the simple
fact that in this country. and most par
ticularly in New York. this little game
of murder goes by favor. sort o..
IF youse is gotta bundle" / heard
man on the street put it the other day
when a certain noted murderer was ac-
quitted-a man who had done his bit Of
killing. too. not long after he had learned
how TO shave and been acquitted then
IF youse is gotta bundle. wy. DO. youse
kin stick VT little sniekersnee into amy
body's ribs an git away wit t. But II
youse Amt there wit tn kale-' and he
made an assortment of hideous move
nents exhibiting the spasms OF man
1a,n nEad tn IN he hat
When humble. obscure men go about
with sneer OF that sort on their lips
IL looks to the rank outsider. watching
the trend of events. as If the SOCIOLOGICAL
soothsayers who say that We are Giving
in the latter DAYS" may have more up
their sleeve in the way of prognostica-
ton than is generally believed.
NAMING no names. there's a certain
~ young and still attractive Though
Increasingly actress now playing here
the daughter of a noted actor now dead
who. in a manner of speaking. pulled a
queer one at and after her performance
the other evening. Which is to say that
she did one real cute and genuine back
fall faint in the middle OF her perform
ance. Her leading man had to pick her
up and look scared and leading-mannish
in this emergency and then the curtain
came down. and all the idolatrous women
in the audience murmured sympathetical
and said Poor thing. and so on.
and the folks In the audience wondered
whether the actress would be able to 60
on with her performance. She did go on
with it, right enough. after a long delay.
and Imply enough, too. and then the
audience went away. and the women con-
tinued to murmur about how the luf1y
Young actress. once great social favor
tie. had really shocking cough, and that
she should be in the mountains or some
! was present at the performance. and
half AN hour afterward was in a certain
grill partaking of the usual modest gra-
ham waters and milk. Into the grill &C.