Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1907 — SIMILARITY OF THE LOVING AND THAW CASES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SIMILARITY OF THE LOVING AND THAW CASES

When the Jury acquitted Judge William G. Loving of the murder of Theodore Estes, at Houston, Va., It was upon the perfunctory ground of “Insanity," although In reality- it was a vindication of the “unwritten law." In the grounds of defense it resembled the Thaw case in New York, and It is possible that this precedent' may have some effect when the latter case comes up for a new trial ln| On those who think’upon these remarkable murders the fact is Impressed that drink was at bottonr-wf both.’-H-wae-drink and attendant dissipations that placed Stanford White within reach of the fatal bullet It was drink that animated Harry Thaw and nerved his arm for the deed. It was drink that led Evelyn Thaw to a condition of easy conquest Mias Loving tfas more or less addicted to drinking, and when young Estes gave her too much liquor It started tbo scandal that ended In the whisky-soaked Judge Loving shooting the victim, as In the White case, without a chance for his life. Judge Loving is a free man, but the blight of murder shall remain for«ver upon his soul. The daughter will live to be tormented by the fact that her story caused the death of a man Innocent of the specific crime alleged. Surely in the record of these two tragedies there Is a solemn lesson that aboahl sink deep Into the minds of American young men and women. It Is the same old lesson that has been taught In records of blood all through the ages' that the wages of sin la death.—Kansas City Journal.