Evening journal., 1913-10-07
WIGGINs An mn pnLIcE.

FROM a Wilmington who is the mother Of
both boys and girls and who has been reader
Of THE EVENING JOURNAL for almost twenty-six
years we have received the following letter with
spect TO the wiggins case and the Battle Baxters
Corner. which WAS It's eliminating feature
do not think brave" policemen IN this city
are deserving Of any special credit In the Virgins
Had he not lived here visited back and forth
and travelled right under the our said brave
policemen right in his home town? Seemingly they
were afraid to take him n they had taken him
for man, he would have made local look
small AS II was. they could not take him alive. al
though IT, was case of thirty policemen against
man. No doubt Niggins bad and as such
should have been punished. His one redeemng fea-
ture however. was his love for his mother. She has
my sympathy also think our citizen, Cornelius
Mundy, deserves great credit for the good favor he
did Virgins mother The money that was found in
the sacks on the Virgins premises. doubt belong
ed TO the Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction Com
pany, and should be returned TO it, think, however
the money found on his person should be given to
his mother Neither Mr.. Johnny Jones nor any other
person robbed identify as his property unless
u has private marks upon H. How does Mr. Jones
know that Wiggins robbed hrq And do not lose
sight Of the fact that there robbery right
at the home of one Of our policemen Had Virgins
been 81 III hoy playing ball committing some
other small oncnse I'm the street. had he been
poor old drunk trying TO get home late night how
quickly the police would have arrested him. hope
You will publish this as ! have talked with several
mothers of boys and they seem to feel as do about
We think there are in Wilmington hundreds. If not
thousands, Of persons who believe, this woman
writer ooes, nai the police deserve no special credit
for the way in which they handled the Virgins case.
and particularly that eliminating part of IL known
the Battle Of Baxter's Corner
Virgins unquestonably was bad man. but many
men worse than he have been captured alive and
der infinitely less favorable conditions than those
which surrounded Virgins Even Chief Of Police
Black admits that the Battle Of Baxters Corner was
unnecessary and it is is opinion that IL the
had been handl- right the ugi We might have been
taken alive and returned the Eastern Penitentiary.
The trouble that Chief Black summoned
from home when IL first became known that the man
supposed be Wggins i'm his in the
Baxter building. The probability is that II ne had
been summoned the Battle OF Baxter's Corner never
would have been fought and there is possibility he
might have induced Virgins to surrender. AT least
he thinks he could have done H. or failing in that,
captured him alive
We also think the people of this city sympa-
thize With the mother Of Virgins II is human
ture to sympathze with mother whose has been
killed who kills himself though that he
bad man. But, with it an, IL would be a crime
against society for to attempt to make hero
Of Virgins. he man-killer and a bandit and a
menace TO the community u is unfortunate, how
that he not recapured and returned to the
Pennsylvania penitcntiary from which he had
capped.