MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
The News Letter, commenting on the recent murders in San Francisco, says :— The jury who found Joseph Kenn, who carved liis wife to pieces, only guilty of murder in the second degree is a better jury than the average San Francisco dozen of dolts. Some juries would have disagreed; others would have acquitted Mr Kenn ; in fact, it is beyond mortal ken to predict what a Californian jury will not do. Mr Kenn only carved his wife to pieces in a fit of emotional insanity, and he goes up to prison till some equally insane governor pardons him out. Young Kalloch slew Charles de Young, and he has since waved his bloody hands in benediction from a pulpit. There is no right, no law, no sense of justice to the murdered, but only a maudlin sympathy born out of wedlock for the murderor. But it is useless to take up valuablo space with a subject that has been dissected so thoroughly. Lot lis rather take away tho name of San Francisco from our city, for tho name is an insult to tho memory of a good man, and get a new name —ono that would express the idea of a city of unavenged blood.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3270, 24 December 1881, Page 4
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