The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-08
THE FARMER: DECEMBER 8, 1911


 his wife and married the governess for his children. My busiest day was on Feb. 8, 1883, when I hanged Anthony Benjamin Rudge, a convict named Martin, and a man named Baker. They had killed a policeman and shot an
 inspector of police at Carlisle, Cumber- land County.
 When I went into his cell to get Rudge he confessed that he had par t1c1pated in several other murders for which innocent men were executed. One of these was a farm laborer who had come from Grafton, Mass, a man I had hanged few years before. began then to feel that I was on the
 road to destruction and this feeling was intensified when I hanged John Conway, man of great size. But it was the Mary Lef1ey case that finally sickened me of my calling
 and made me step out. I hanged that hapless young woman after she had been convicted of killing her hus-
 band with strychnine. She, poor innocent. She was. Nine months af- ! ter her execution the real murderer | confessed on his death bed He prov- ed he had committed the crime by producing the druggist who had sold him the poison.''
 man in England is not difficult to ill" l said Berry, T will merely state that
 I was one of 1,So0 applicants for the post. l had been a policeman and an assistant hangman. When I resigned | there were 2,00O applicants for my | place."
 The former British executioner said l that he had written two books that | had been put under the ban in Eng land. They were From the Scaffold
 to. the Pulpit" and My Experiences ! as an Executioner.''
 
 | these books" said Berry, because I they tell too much"
 Coincident with the issue of a 1 strong appeal to the alumnae of Har-
 yard University by Oswald Willard,
 to allow Mrs. Pankhurst to address
 them on the subject of woman's suf- | frage Sir Gilbert Parker, her fellow countryman arrived here the other day
 and deprecated the exploitation of the professional suffragette. Sir Gilbert, who IS well remembered here as the | author of some of the best sellers with which the bookmen have of late years been enriching themselves and of some ] of the most popular of the dramatic
 productions of recent years, has pro-
 nounced views on the subject, which | he is not averse to ventilating on | slight provocation
 | T suppose as an anti-suffragfst you strongly deprecate the militant tac- ties of the suffragettes?" he was ask ed.
 | 'I don't deprecate them, I despise
 them" and the writer's quick forefin-
 ger italicized the second verb. They { are contemptibly childish and abso- 1 lutely futile. If they are really in 1 earnest, why don't they break heads instead of breaking windows? That
 is what men do when they go out in I r1.x%f
 made before-women lack the iron strain. Government must be left in [ the hands of men because they have 1 the force to stand behind 1t and keep l 1t going. They fight the wars and fall 1 and rise again with bloody heads and press on. Women cannot do this. If | the Government of the world were not a government of men, women could ! not walk on the streets of New York in safety and we should be in the
 hands of the McNamara brothers. Man is the creative power" concluded Sir Neither one is more important than the otbear; but each Is important in different ways. To woman | would open all the doors of self-development in art, literature, business, economies,
 social service. but would give polit- ical government to men. The lirni- tation must be drawn"
 If you do not wish to see woman in the political field" he was asked ''do you approve of her entering the arts, the professions or business?" ''I have always advocated the open ing of all these fields to women!" he exclaimed. But now how Is it in Eng land? Not the law, 1t is true, but the profession of medicine, literature and all the arts, every position in the bus mess world except those demanding mans physical strength-all have | | IL .
 what have women. done? Take the
 sort of work in which 1t seems to me
 that they ought specially to excel, the
 making of beautiful things. The de- signing of wall paper, of furniture, of co'ored glass shades for lamps. the
 home, the building of artistic homes,
 the fabrication of exquisite jewelry- why do not women take first rank among the workers in these crafts? Not because the manufacturers would be unwilling to make use of them. simply because they are not competent to do the work; in your phrase, they have not made good.' And why are they not competent? Because they will not sacrifice themselves to the hard grind of study, to the strict years of application to technique which
 men, breadwinners from the beginning, take as matter of course" There is good reason for believing that the widespread popular clamor against the practice of the local fed-. eral courts in fining rich offenders against the customs regulations and sending poor ones to jail, will result
 in legislation this winter by Congress. providing for mandatory Imprisonment in future convictions.
 Public opinion has been greatly stir red respecting the discrimination shown by the courts in favor of veal thy malefactors of this kind. The 1 leniency displayed by the courts for | the Duveens, importers of rare works l of art, who have confessed to defraud- | ing the government out of something | like 5000, 900 worth of duties within | the last ten or fifteen years, is re- l ferred to as case in point. | The Duyeens have made restitution | of more than $2,000, 900 of these duties and the government in time expects to | collect the balance. AS the most l prominent firm of its kind in the | country, as well as the richest. Dis 1 trict Attorney Wise urged that they be ! made an example of, believing that ! jail sentence in their case would have | a sa autary effect upon less influential offenders. But all five of the defen- 1 dants have got off with a nominal fine, | the last of them being released the other day upon the payment of s15,- | 0O0 In each case the government call- l ed the attention of the court to the | fact that poor smugglers had been l sent to jail and demanded similar | &-1 %~,,1 c. D,Yf hn