Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — Light on a Dark Deed. [ARTICLE]

Light on a Dark Deed.

Louisville Commercial. Erb, who was hanged in St. Louis for killing his wife, made a confession which contained the following: “I called several times and did not have courage enough to commit the deed. It took me three days to get up courage enough to do the deed, and when I did I was just full o/ whisky. I tought a pint of whisky at the nearest saloon, and then I bought a knife at a hardware store. Then I drank some more whisky and that braced me up.” It is worthy of note that sohxething redeeming iu the man restrained him from the awful crime until he filled himself with whisky. Then his good angel left, he bought the fatal knife and went straightway on his mission of murder. Who could add to this temperance sermon? For more than two centuries the use of the potato was vehemently opposed. At last Louis XV. wore a bunch of its flowers In the midst of his courtiers, and the consumption of the root pecdme universal in France.