MURDER AND AFTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 12

MURDER AND AFTER.

What becomes, it may be wondered, of the murderesses? (asks the Springfield Republican). The way in which these escape punishment in Chicago, declares the State attorney, has become a scandal. Two women were acquitted there recently, and in three years there have been 13 acquittals and only one conviction, the convicted woman dying a natural death in gaol. In cruel old England a woman who poisoned her husband was boiled in oil; now we have progressed so far towards humanity and chivalry that Barries skit. "The Legend of Leonora," is hardly a travesty of facts. Conviction, says this State attorney, is almost impossible if the murderess "is fairly good-looking, or is able to turn on the flood-gates of her tears, or exhibit a capacity for fainting;." They are turned loose and then what becomes" of them? It really inspires wonder. They disappear from the newspapers, they return to a life in which a husband is conspicuously lacking, they must associate with people— how are they received by a world which..knows perfectly well tb*t they tfite-Kuiltir/ of-irtiira&-F •*i -stiSKcsfr- 1