Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 December 1897 — Page 7

TERRIBLE PENALTIES

Fate of an Embezzler and That of

a Murderer.

EX-AUDITOR MOORE SENTENCED

Jury r.rlnss In

a

Verdict of Mttrrtor In

the J'irHt l)cgr«u and Sends Mnrtiu Thorn to t.liu Cluiir

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lh-utli In N«

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York For I lie Killing of Willium Gul(lensii(kpo.

Lincoln, Neb,, Dec. 1. Ex-State Auditor Eugeuo Moore, found guilty of the embezzlement of $23,000, state funds, was yesterday sentenced to eight years iu the penitentiary. The sentence was a surprise and a crushing blow to the prisoner, who had expected but nominal puiiishinem, and the scene ill the courtroom was as affecting us it was dramatic. Moore, with his wife standing by his side, pleaded with the court for mercy, making a long and somewhat rambling statement. At its conclusion lie sank in his chair and sobbing bitterly, his wife trying vainly to comfort him.

Judge (Jornisli, visablv affected, spoke slowly of the crime committed and the entire absence of extenuating circumstances. lie said he believed no less than .10 years iu the penitentiary would t*uisfy outraged justice.

As he paused Mrs. Moore threw her arms about her husband's neck and shouted: "Oh, please judge, have mercy oil him, have mercy!"

Judge Cornish then said: "On account of your devoted wife and your loving children, I will reduce the sentence by two years. Therefore, the sentence ol' the court is that, you shall be confined the penitentiary for the. term of eight years at hard labor, pav the costs of prosecution and be lined in the sum of S-J(5,S16.10."

Moore was twice elected state auditor and his family moved in exclusive society.

TIIOKN :H ST 111 1J.

Jury llrinpt Iu it Ycrdiet of Murder In I lit? Tir.st Nkw Youk, Dec. 1.—Martin Thorn was lute yesterday convicted of murder in the lirst degree in killing William Guldensuppe, Ins predecessor in the affections ot Mrs. Augusta Mack at Woodside, L. 1., on June ~5. At the request of Thorn's counsel the passage ol the death sentence was deferred until next Friday morning. Thorn heard the jurymen polled on tln'ir verdict, but las face •rover changed color during the trying ordeal. Willi hps lirmly compressed and jaws hard set, he faced the judge, jury and courtroom full of spectators with well feigned stoicism.

About three weeks ago Thorn's lirt trial on the charge of murder was beRun, hut owing to the illness of a juror it had to be abandoned after three days. A second trial opened a week ago last Monday and, counting out three days on which the court did not sit, the trial consumed onlv six days. The jury was just three hours arriving at a wnii'-r. Thorn's lawyers moved for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was not in accordance with the weight ot evidence, but the motion was overruled.

Just what will become of Mrs. Naek has not been made known bv tno Queens county authorities, but it is generally thought that the state will accept a plea from her which will not call for capital punishment.

Thorn ."slid lie Ltwl.

"When Martin Thorn had been led back to his cell after the conviction lie admitted that the verdict was just and that he and not Mrs. Xack killed linldensuppe. This acknowledgment of guilt tonic place ill the jail while Thorn's cell was being prepared for him. lie said: 1 am glad it is over and the verdict given. 1 am convicted anil em contented. It. was I who kille.I CuMcusiippe anil I cur, up his body. Kver.v word i!iat Mrs. Nacl said upon 1 he suuui was substani ially correct When 1 was on the siaiul I •/lied when telling the story as 1 did. but. 1 lied to clear myself. It. is no use carrying it any further. 1 am guilty and am'coiivicted. It is what. 1 expected and what 1 suppose people think 1 deserve, and perhaps do.

POSTMASTER MISSING.

Williird Clllliltln of (.!j|hi- Alton ."\lyst»riously Disiippmrs, Uimmmi Alton*, Ills., Dec. 1.—Willard

L. CJillhani, son of the late Senator D. 13. Gillham, is missing, and much anxiety is felt by his family regarding his whereabouts and safety. Mr. tiillhani is an attorney and is also postmaster at this place. On Nov. IS Mr. Gillham started for Edwardsville, presumably to transact some legal business, lie left home very early and took the train for the placo named. It is known that he got to Mitchell, the station where Edwardsville passengers transfer, but here all trace of linn is lost. His family is at a loss to account for his absence.

•MERRY'S MOTIVE.

Mnrdtjietl Hih Wife to (iot Whioli She llitd. CiiK'Aiio, Dec. 1.—The police have receivcd their lirst information regarding tlio cause of the murder of Mrs. Merry by her husband, Peddler (Jiiris Merry. Nicholas Schwarz, a peddler, who has been employed by Merry for three years, has told them that on tlie day preceding the murder Jie made iJT.TS for Merry bv peddliug, and it was to get this from his wife, after she had refused to surrender it, that Merry strangled her to death.

Lou KramlIo Sold For 89,000.

Lkxixoton*, Ky., Dec. 1. At the "Woodward & Slianklin sale of thoroughbreds here Lou Bramble was sold to Captain S. S. Brown of Pittsburg for $9,000, and Flora Louise was sold to Thomas Hays of this city for $8,000.

ROADS FOR MISSOURI.

DRAIN ON THE STATE'S RESOURCES TO BE CHECKED.

Of SI,000,000 Spent For RojuIr Last Year $633,000 Went Into the Pockets of Overseen*—Common KoucIk Neglected and

Farmers and Merchant* Sutler.

A state convention for good roads and public improvements will bo liekl at St. Louis on Nov. 22 and 23. A call for this stato convention has been prepared by the ollicers elected at the charities and correction and good roads convention held at St. Louii last .gear. Circulars have been issue. iicl "'Die State's Duty" and other literature has been sent into all sections of tho state, urging the necessity for the judgi of county courts, tho mayors of cities and the commercial bodies to name delegates to this important meeting.

It is proposed that each county judge shall name two delegates from a county and that every city and incorporated town and also every commercial body shall send representatives. W. II. Moore, president of the charities and correction and good roads convention of last year 15. C. Rowso, tho secretary, and President Jesse of the state university at Cc lumbia, who is one of the vice presidents, and many other prominent citizens of Missouri are taking an active interest iu the arrangements for tho coming good roads and public improvement convention. "The chief object, in calling this convention more than a year before the fortieth general assembly of Missouri will conveno is to arrange in advancofor tho enactment of feasible road legislation," said President Moore recently. "When the people of Missouri understand how road construction is progressing in a systematic and practical way in other states, it will be an incentives for them to adopt sini.-lar plans tor the building of good roads and tin promotion of public improvements. Conventions crystallize public sentiment. This state has as much road legislation on its statute books as any stale in the Union, perhaps, but the lact that good roads are not being built in -Missouri is proof that active and consistent legislation should be enacted. issouri spends $ 1.000,000 a year on her common roads, but last year*(i:i2.000 of that sum went into the pockets of road overseers. The common roads have been neglected iu this state. As has been

A Nla.i.lx.TI:l in a I Kroni (iorid Quarts.

truthitilly said, the price of farm products is lixed at the gnat cities or centers of consumption and distribution and is wholly beyond the'farnier's control, and the cost of transportation is a principal factor in determining his profits or tho possibility of any profit. On the railroads tho cost of transportation varies, according to hulk, and runs from (i mills to 1 cent per ton per mile. Hut the average common roads are so bad that comparatively good weather a two horse team and wagon, tho value of whose service is per day, cannot haul a ton of product! moro than ten miles and return in a day. The cost of road transportation on that l.asis. therefore, is :J0 cents per ton per mile, or about -10 times as great as the rate on the railroad. »way that the average distance from the farm to the nearest, railway station is ten miles, and that means that it costs as much to get the goods to or from the railroad station as to carry them -100 miles oil the cars.

But there is along season every year when the roads in some sections of Missouri arc simply impassable. One big wholesale house iu Sr. Louis lost §2-10. 000 in trade last -March on account of the bad roads in Missouri. In many places it was an impossibility to go a mile away from the railroad. General Roy Stone, who has charge of the road department established by congress in and who works tinder the direction of tho secretary of agriculture, says that Missouri's annual loss by reason of defective roads is not less than sl.", 000,(100. "Such an appalling financial drain on the resources of this state should bo speedily chicked. Every farmer can readily see how he will reap immediate and direct benefit from good roads. It has been estimated that a macadam road 18 feet wide alongside a farm adds So in valuo to each acre of land. Soino sections of this state can furnish their own supply of rock for constructing roads at a very moderate cost. "Good roails over all the state could be built on a plan whereby the cost, of construction could be paid in installments when the general taxes arc paid, and the burden would be felt lightly. To the contrary, it would be no burden, for tho farmer would be benefited many times over the amount or nisroan ra:i owing to the enhancement'of the value ot his land and the increased facilities of reaching the market with bis products. Then, too, with good roads, the market would not be glutted so often as it is now because the farmers' products could be transported to the railroads the whole year round. "While the railroads would bo forced to reduce freight rates, they, too, would savo money in tho long run. ns they would be freed largely from the rush at certain seasons, they would handle more freight steadily the whole year through, and their rolling stock could bo diminished."

Me si niuv gCH00L

LESSON X, FOURTH QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, DEC. 5.

Text of the Lt-KHOII, I'liil. II, 1-11—Mem' ory Verses, 5-8— Golden Text, mil. ii, O Commentary by tlie ltcv. D. M.

Stearns.

1. "If there be thereforenny consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies." Consolation hero is literally "one called to your side," and comfort is "one speaking beside you." So Wo might read, "If there is anything in Christ being ever with you and ever talking to you, and in having the constant companionship and guidance and teaching of the Holy Spirit, if thcro is anything in tho tenderness and compassion of tho Father manifested in the Son by the Spirit, then let it he seen in you to tho glory ol God that Cliriht may bo magnified." 2. "Fulfill ve my joy, that ye be like minded, having the samo love, being of one accord, of ono mind." Oneness of tho members of tho body in tho sorvico of tho head is something greatly desirod by our blessed Lord, as is very manifest in His prayer in .lohn xvii, and it will also he the great desire of all who ore fully one with Him. i\ot only does lie comfort us with tho assurance, "As the Father hath loved Me, so liavo I loved you," but He also adds, "Ihis is My commandment, that ye love one another as I havo loved you" (John xv, Si, 12). 3. "Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem oilier better than thoniselves." Another reading is, "In nothing follow self seoking." Jeremiah said to his scrilio, Baruch: "Sickest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not" (Jer. xlv, .1). Although the wholo laud was Abram's anil not Lot's, yet rather than havo strife A lira in told Lot Intake his choice and go whither he would. When the Philistines strove for the wells which Isaac had reopened, Isaac did not resist, but kept on yielding until there was room tor all, and the strife ceased (Vien. xiii, S, xxvi, x.'2). •J. "Look not every man on his own filings, but every man also on the things ot others." Not enviously as some would pervert it, but desiring the welfare of othicrs as much as or more than your own.

Love scckcth not her own (I Cor. xiii, f). Let ICpiscopalians seek and rejoice in the welfare of Methodists, and so Methodists of Baptists, Jiajnists of Presbyterians, and so on, all uniting heartily to seek tho honor of the Head in the completion of His body, the church, which has no name but Christ (I Cor. xii. .\ l!i). 6. "Let this mind bo in yon. which was also in Christ .lesus." If any man have not the Spirit of Chiist, he is none of His (Rom. \iii, i). Now, every penitent sinner who truly receives Christ receives also the Spirit of Chi'b.t, but some are more controlled by and manifest more of that Spirit than ethers. It is the privilege of evciy believer to bo filled with the Spirit (Kph. v, hS). and led by the Spirit and to walk i:i die Spirit, and when ono is only willing in have no will but the will of Cod, no choice but God's choice, no way but God's way, n, service but what He appoints, Cud will quickly fill that ono wii.h liis Spirit end continue to fill him day by day and moment by moment. ti. "Who, being in the form of God. fhoughl it not robbery to be equal with God." Another reading is. ''Deemed not his quality with Cod a thing to tii'asp at." He was not always saying, "1 am God: 1 created all things I own 1 ho universe 1 do as I please in heau-n and on earth, and therefore you must how to Me, anil if you don't 1 will make you, for I ha\call power." Those who are always grasping at their position as ii they might 10.-e it. or .r least some of ihe honor belonging i" it. are scry small people, or people of \cry small minds, whatever their position may l:c. 7. "Hut made Himself of no reputation, anil took upon Him lie form of a servant anil was made in the likeness of man." lie took not on Him tho nature of angi Is, bich would have been a very great humiliation, but as the children aro partake!s ol Ue«h and blood, lie also Himself likewise took part of the same (Iieb. 11, 11. 1 "). lie emptied Himself of tho glory which He had with the'Father before the world was. and consented to endure the limiiatioiis of a mortal body for our :i: jeers—not only so, but He consented to endure such limitation under tho most limited of can hly conditions, such as the maimer at lielhlehein. the humble homo and the. carpenter's shop at. Nazareth. h'. "And being found in fashion as a man lie humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of tlie cross. '1 ho Son of Man came not to bo ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many (Math, xx, 2S). He consented to be despised and slandered and misunderstood, persecuted, blindfolded, buffeted, spit upon, scourged, kilasa lamb to the slautditir, crucified. ii. Wherefore also God hath highly exalted llim and given Him a name which is above every name." Ho is now at God's right hand, with the Father on His throne (Kev. iii, :.l), and in due time all kings shall fall down beforoHim and all nations servo Him (Ps. lxxii. II). IJy His work and by that alone, which He has finished without, help trom man, eternal life is freei.v gi\en to every one who receives Him, and a share in His glory and a place on His throne (John xvii, .':.' Kev. iii, r.'l). 111. "That at the name of Jc.-ns every knee should bow of things in heaven, anil things in earth, anil things under the earth." And so it shall come to pass, for God has purposed it. "The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying. Surely as I havo thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand" (Isa. xiv, 2i). John saw the consummation of it in his vision when ho heard every creaturo which is in heaven, and on tho earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, saying, "Ble.ising and honor and glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon tho throne, and iinio the Lamb fori ver and ever" (Kev. v, 3!i). Thcro is none other name under lu oven given among men whereby we may be saved. 11. "And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to lhe glory of God tho father." It shall surel.v he, to the everlasting comfort anil bliss of some and to the everlasting woe of ot hers. Saved and unsaved shall all confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. The saved shall rejoice in Him as their Lord, while the unsaved shall havo to confess 11 im as Lord to their everlasting confusion, but in each God will ho glorified. Seo 11 Cor. ii, 15, 10. A good test as to whether we aro now honoring Him as Lord is seen in verse 14 of our lesson chapter. 11' by the Spirit we havo confessed Him as our Lord and daily do bo, there can be in our lives no murmuring or disputing, no strife or envy. He is not Lord of theso things.

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