El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-26
By c. GARDNER SULLIVAN.


I LEFT off writing about a fictitious
l young man who was willing to sac
rifice his sweetheart for a fanatical
ideal. but an ideal wonderful to him,
to visit Harry New. In this man, still
with a hint OF boyishness in his bag
gard features. found the imaginary
man OF the story reproduced in every
day life. for back Of the momentary
blaze of rage which ended his sweet
hearts life there was something deep
er, something rooted in the soul Of
Harry New. 1t was an ideal. an ideal
wonderful to him. his ideal Of love and
womanhood.
Turned Upon Girl Like Hurt Animal.
Freda Lesser. II News story De
true unconsciously shattered this
ideal when she told him she had de-
cided not to bring their child into be-
ing: when she told him she had
changed her mind about marrying
him It hurt New; hurt him as prob
ably nothing else had ever hurt him.
and, like an animal that Is cruelty
tortured. he turned upon her, to reno'
to destroy.
Without seeing New, without hear
Ing him talk In his slow, vague fash
ion, without being able to watch the
strained, stunned expression wnicn
makes his eyes almost expressionless.
one finds II hard to imagine now ne
could have driven about for four hours
with the lifeless body Of his victim
The horror, the unnaturalness OF II.
seems too great for even the most
hardened mind But once having
seen the man. his action following the
murder IS not hard to understand He
is. to all seeming, utterly lacking in
imagination.
Unable To Realize What BE has Done.
Even now he is unable to realize
fully what he has done. He knows tna-
he has killed a girl who trusted him
He knows that he has violated the
law Of both God and man He knows
that this was a wicked thing to do,
not so much because It is forbidden BY
man, but because II is forbidden by
God All this he knows. but the aw-
full horror Of that Swallowed night on
the mountain road he does not realize,
and I doubt that he ever will
New is not necessarily lacking IN
intelligence, but his is primal intel
ligence. He Is a primal man. man
with a single track. narrow nina not
vicious Che IS not a criminal at hearth
but holding fixedly to the beliefs that
have become a part OF him He is said
to be a college man. but this is ex-
tremeiy hard to believe. He has none
has studied. whose mind has been
trained even briefly along certain
lines II he ever went to college he
has In a few years shed his college
atmosphere" most completely.
Careless OF Personal Appearance.
Seeing him on the street, one would
class him as a man who works with
his hands. a steady. reliable. laboring
type. His hands particularly impressed
me. They were Drowned and rough
ered as II from hard outdoor work
The nails were broken and cracked
and filled with dirt mute evidence
that he does not consider them as es-
sential to his personal appearance
The neglect is not recent It covers a
long period.
Ordinarily q college trained man,
even in News present circumstances,
would give some thought 10 his appear
ance, even II subconsciously, unless he
were acting or too stunned by horror
to remember. Such is not the case
with New. He hasn't enough magma
ton to be an actor. He doesn't even
act subconsciously. and while he does
seem stunned II Is not from horror.
his being. In short, New is
the type Of man, who, given a task
which he understood, would carry Il
out to the letter. but were an unseen
emergency to arise, calling for quick
thought, he would be helpless
n In No Sense OF afThe ROunders Type.
New is not a rounder. He says, and
think everyone believes him, that he
has never been drinking man He IL
essentially plodder. the one idea man
who. 80 times out OF 100 lives an IN
eventful. honest life. utterly removed
from crime of any sort. And yet he
Is in jail, charged with the murder Of