The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07

by this doubt that he paid the expenses
Of an appeal out of his own pocket.
William \. Pinkerton, the detective, is
quoted as saying ii was improbable
that Eytinge was guilty Of murder, as
his criminal bent did not gallop in
that direction.
At the trial it was urged that the
corpus deficit was not sufficiently
proved. Dead. the sick barber was,
no doubt Of that; but there was no
proof that he was not dead of tubcrcu-
losis or asthma or weak heart, from
all three Of which he suffered.
And so the doubt-which in some
quarters grows to a positive belief in
his innocence.
Eytinge is "A member of a well known
family Of artists, actors and musicians,
some Of whom have gained place in
the esteem Of their times. He was
born in central State. His father was
actor, broker, Spectator, gambler by
turns. His parents We're divorced when
he was years old. on its face this
looks to have been unfortunate. 1t may
not have been.
The boy had an abundant share Of
love from his mother and relatives, and
| plenty Of money--too much money. He
had good looks and rare power to
| ingratiate. He had the fatal gift OF
emperament-perhap barely escaped
| genius.
He was able to do wrong so skilfuly
| that one feels convinced he might have
done right with equal facility II he had
chosen. But he did not choose. HI
repaid affection with ingratitude, for
| giveness with broken pledges parental
| ip1 tHyfth of Iighnnnr
| In school Eytinge fioundered out OF
| one sCrape only to fall into another
| till at 10 or l6 years of age, adrift
for some scrapegrace act and being a.
usual in want of money, he forged
a check. With his personal graces Il
was rid!Culously easy to get money
| this way. Forging became the habi
! Of his teens.
For a time his mother and his rela
tives squared" the cases against hin
by making good the losses and pleading
his youth. But he was never perma
nently out of trouble. At 10 years OF
age he was serving time in Fedora
| prison for a forgery committed afte
Il naval enlistment, but was pardone'
for the sake Of his youth and tn
family name.
At 20 he was going to the Mansfield
Reformatory again for forgery; at 2
he was arrested for forgeries and be
came mixed up in an attempted jai
break while awaiting trial; at 2S he wa
coming out of Columbus penitentar
with FIVE year term behind him and
record as a turbulent prisoner who ha
been spreadeagled padded, cuffed t
the wall and water cured all with n
effect that was good and considerabl
that was bad
But it was not alone his Characte
that was wormeaten. The mans bod
was hopelcssly tubercular, In fac
Eytnge at that moment was a cOnsplcu
Gus example OF young man who ha
. deliberately and recklessy wasted HI
entire life capital in vicious living an
, whose final reckoning was near.
For the last time his relatives too
: pity ON him. Within a month he wa
, on his way to PhTniX, Ari2,, with
, promise from them of 800 a month s
\ long as he kept away and out Of trouble
4 Sixty days later hollow of cheek, waste
p Of body, hunched of shoulder, a mel
/. yellow husk of a man, his features veal
/ ing a habtual smirk of animal cunning
= he stood shiftlly upon enfeebled les
/ while the law OF "A life for life wa
!. invoked against him.
o That, In brief and effectively col
sidered, is the transit OF Louis VictC