Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1887 — Influence of the Press. [ARTICLE]

Influence of the Press.

A well-known Cincinnati lawyer, says the Enquirer, was speaking to a friend from New York concerning the great activity in prosecuting criminals in the metropolis now and the great number of convictions secured. He cited the cases of the Italian woman, Mrs. Cignarale, recently sentenced to death for the murder of her husband; the man Keade, now under sentence for killing hie wife; Greenwell, the Brooklyn man, convicted on circumstantial evidence of killing Lyman D. Weeks, while burglarizing his house, and the evident intention to make it warm for Jacob Sharp. “How comes all this? What caused the spasm of reform?” “The newspapers,** said the New York man. “The newspapers do it all in Net York now. They accuse men. try them, and convict them. Juries are afraid of them. I think the papers arte doing pretty good work, too.”