The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-06-28 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE COUNTY ADVERTISER.  THURSDAY, JUXE 1,188.  IT is not every one, or every society, which possesses such a insirked degree that , charming and admirable tntit of laing able to adapt ones Self to ekellinStalleeS, aS the Aston Manor Liberal Asmaiation. With a commendable assumption of felicity they have accommodated themselves to the embarrassing circumstanees AVhieh fOIIOWe4I in the wake of the Liberal split over the Cladstonian Irish proposals, and with it delightful sense of resignation to the inevitable, they witnessed the triumphant returnof a Conservative Unionist member. Ity the decisive return of the present member they beheld the attaimnent of their aspirations, the return of a Liberal namber, transported to the regions of Impossl6ility vet with an equanimity quite Micawberian thev devoted their enfeebled energies to the establishment of a clubhouse, and as 1401#1smith says: "From this the feeble heart and long fallen mind, Aim ea.y compensation seem to find." Amongst the: enthusiastic. Illadstonians of the -Manor the self-satisfying idea prevails that the opening of the club in the Albertroad will mark the adventof the rejuvenescence of local 'Liberalism ; but the reflective and thoughtful members of the 'arty know better, and see the farther de:gin:aim' of the thadstonians by the new and rising Tory Democracy. We have little doubt that the club will, in a short time, attain a satisfactory list of membership, but the success of a club offering social advantages must not be taken as indieative of the prosperity of that political party in whose interests it was establislietl.  llv the death of the poor unfortunate girl Florence Mabel I Innis, the Sutherland-Areet shooting attar has entered upon a trwric and more serious phase, and the aectrie7l man Jones now stands committed upon the Coroner's warrant to take his trial at the ensuing County Assizes upon a charge of wilful murder. Considering the brutal and determined way in which it is alleged Jones went about his murderous business, the death of one of the victims will occasion no one who has acquainted himself with the reported facts of the case with much surprise. Indeed, the only astonishment likely to be manifested is that in respect of the vitality of the other victims. From the somewhat meagre bulletins which reach us from the hospital where the mother and the little lad William Harold are lying. there, however, seems an unfortunate probability that the baby-object of jealous resentment will succumb to hi :4 injuries. If such should be the case there will, having regard to the result of the Coroner's enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the girl, be another capital charge preferred against apprelkelisiott enterjones. There seems no tabled with regard to the recovery of the mother and father. Rut whilst the babes have been fighting with death and the adults have been suffering physical torture in consequence of their wounds, the accused has, according to all published :Lemmas been exhibiting a demeanour and manifesting sense of indifference which is well calculated to estrange what little sympathy his historY and actions may have evoked. Ile appears to have made no ditect statement with regard to his eonduet in the matter, but doubtless he will, at the proper time, endeavour to afford some explanation with regard to the motives which actuated him to act with such ferocity. Whatever he may say. however, cannot assume the nature of a justification. for nothing can justify such a brutal attack upon those who have been his friends, and -especially upon the two unoffending and unsophisticated infants. In a case like this popular prejudiw is sure to run against the alleged assassin, but though the conduet of' a man who makes such a brutal attack upon a household as Jones is alleged to have done, cannot be referred to in other than eondentnatoly terms, there is. in our opinion, a certain amount of pity due to him, for he has evidently been the dupe of a worthless woman.