The Mignonette Tragedy.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 142, 26 November 1884, Page 4

The Mignonette Tragedy.

!"il.»l »V' — «-:.!■.■■•• .r^.'-i.'J r/jAtyhj^-*fti)iWM : \il'- : * the*;* 'Etirb-: peajf Mail has this note -bti' the ( JMtfgponettfe tragedy V 'fend- we* ok ' serve that lis i viewis'^tnat^of^nVbst' < i>f titer ppWl'at ''fitome -^The .less saicl afiout the appalling end of llßapkj3?s unhappy voyage the belfef; '^nt^l^mub'te'en'teV iW ''very •strbngestpl-Mst aPusWeolunltfs' •of spieb'al pleading and of essentially morbid y^sentimental j j^hat, , 'jhas rje'bir spanned' forth by ' superfi'-' cia'T f tiitiiUf s Jit soine* 'of 'the ! "p'ajiers here m search of sensatipn. Tne actjpe^petiate^b^ I ftie ! boy S sti^yln^ bompauioifs.was not and .cannpt be' - morally It was r soupl|i crime, equjally against humanity 'and' thejlaw. The. a^b^gistk^can reafly ofily jrstify their poVftrbn oh the as--suinpjion |h^i^^e^j^.cssfinjaa% ,the.. rabst iprpcioiis thing of which we have any knowledge^^isA is -<really panperirig to the ofanJmalism, and simply^ degrades iDpfajikind Junbpeakably. I^ne] tr|e explanation of the horri|J| jdged Jis I simply that m the two un^appy'per'petrators of the hideous deed actual ftntmali^m ohfiainedrt^fi) fiflpremafcv, • 1 ana • para(yseas> tor a time, every c&euffty Ai olf „r,easQn f! ;anfJi<P O A??J9PP^ Or i let i 'u| grant that ;j tjj.es ini^eraWe., men were! mad, as ttiey probably were ; bui let us not for one moment admit that, un^er any cjrcumstances -, conceivabfe,.on.^ ,San can jpe;' just!- . fied m taking ibe life, o£ another for the sake or, prolonging his own. ,• .