Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-03-25
RESPONSIBILITY
OF WOMEN.

| Some newspapers are sustaining
Governor Craig Of North Carolina
who recently saved Mrs. Ida Bell
Warren from the electric chair as
well as her partner in crime, a man
she had married after robbing and
numbering her paramour. Other pa
pcrs, however, are taking issue
with the Governor, and suggest that
the time has come when sex should
not make the perpetrator of such
crimes immune. The husband owes
his life to the woman, as the Gov
crnor was forced to show him the
same mercy. Both will serve life
terms in the penitentiary.
In another column of the Gazette
il will be seen that bride in Okla
roma shot and killed sheriff who had
her husband in charge. Her liege
lord was charged with assault with
intent to kill, and after he had been
taken in custody, the bride asked
permission to accompany him. While
on a train she assassinated the sheriff
and stopped the train at the point OF
the pistol when she and her husband
escaped. They were later captured.
The Richmond Journal in comment
ing upon the action of Governor Craig
in the case Of the Warren woman
says:
For a perfect example of mushy
rhetoric, muddlcd scntimentallty ana
deplorable shrinking from duty we
point without pride to the letter OF
Governor Craig, of North Carolina, IN
connection with the communication OIL
the sentence Of Mrs. Ida Bell War
rcn and her accompliccs in a remark
ably brutal and cruel murder. This
woman had lived with Il man several
wears without being married to HIM.
She stole his savings, with when nc &c
had entrusted her, carried them on
with another man and was married
tn him. When. her former paramount
discovered her whereabouts and at
tempted to recover his stolen money
she connived with him to murder her
husband trcachcrously and to mutt
late and conceal the body. She IN
stigatcd and planned the crime, a
mean, deliberate murder added TO
ad,,ltry, theft and violation OF every
moral and statute law and of every
trust that men can give women. Yet
some of the very women who main
tain that women should be held equai
with men in all respects united in the
plea that this female fiend be re-
iicved Of the consequences of her
crime because of her sex, And the
woman being exempted from the
death penalty, the men who assisted
her in the murder. also are exempt.
1t Just about the kind Of performance
VIC would expect from Governor Craig
And curious detail is that he holds
IN to public adherence the action OF
the Germans in killing woman spy
while North Cardinals most proml..
nent representative in the Federal
Congress the Hon. Claude Kitchen,
docs all he can TO uphold Gcrmany's
right to assassirate women and chill
lrcn by the hundreds without warn
ing or opportunity to save their hives.
1t is disgusting business. North
Cardinals rulers and representatives
do her no credit. Governor Cralg's
course in this matter is in ignomnlous
contrast to the firm and fearless &C
ton Of Governor Mann of Virginia.
in the cases Of the Aliens. Governor
Mann, too, was bcset with pleas, pro-
tests, petitions and threats. But nc
stood his ground like real man and
Governor; and the fact will be re-
membered to his honor in the history
of tIn Ct1tn