EVENING GAZETTE. ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE IN NOR- WALK AS A NEWSPAPER. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. DAILY—One year, 83; six months, 31.75; three months, 81; one month, 400. WEEKLY—One year, in advance, 81; six months. 600.: three months. 350. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1897. The Celebration of a Ghastly ~Murder. Two arguments were used in support of the, law providing for the adminis- tration of capital punishment by means of electricity, says the New York Sun. One was on the ground of its humanity in producing instant death. The other was that. meldentally the new law re- quired that the execution should take place in the prison under circumstances which could not be described with the picturesque detail of the reports of hangings wh'1ch had before prevailed with newspapers. Only the bare an- nouncement of the execution was to be m:_de;'aud such reserve, it was argued, I w...uld be conducive to public morals, before injuriously afiected by the re- porting of the hangings of murderers as events of prime popular interest. Putting aside the question of greater humanity and admitting that it has been settled in favor of electric execution, how is it about the moral argument 1’ 1 "We have an answer to it in the ne 11's; paper treatment of the horrible Gield- sensuppe murder. No account of a hanging, however circumstantial and picturesque it might have been, could have had an influence 1 on public Inor- als so deleterious- as have been the stories, partially true or wholly fabri- cated and told with both pen and pen- cil, which have filled the yellow jour-_ 111115 for months. In the first place, those newspapers set out as rival de- tectives to discover the murderer. The reporters multiplied in number for the occasion, scrambled and fought in their eagerness to get ahead in the ,search. Meanwhile their employers made the ghastly crime the principal feature of their papers, giving broad- with pictures of the man- sides to it, gled remains of the murdered man, of the faces of the man and the woman accused of the crime, and of the imple- ments used by them in. their horrible work. This went on for weeks to-‘ -gether, day in and day out. and the brutal pictures and glaring type occu- pied the most conspiL-uous places in those sheets. Then came contradic- tory stories of coufession by the crimi- nals, spiced with descriptions of their illicit. relations. When the trial began these papers again competed with each other in giv- ing the most revolting, blood curdling. and provocative accounts of the pro- ceedings. The rival reporters glared teach other in fierce enmitv, for they we ere harpies with appetites for the same horrible food. 3New devices for obtaining and transmitting the reports of the trial were contrived. Pictures of the accused man and woman, half the newspaper page in size, were printed in seine" new attitudes almost ev ery day in the w.eek The horrible murder was > _- their one meat feature, and to attract .the greater attention they invented da1ly all the gha’stly details which their imaginations could conceive. . No sooner was Thorn convicted-than the yellow‘ journals were engaged in the fabi iCation of a. chf'esSiou from him, acquitting the woman of par tici: pating in the actual murder, and accus- ing himself as the sole originator of the crime and the single person guilty of it. Here they agreed. Both of them said that Thorn made the confession to Police Captain Methven, and the pa- pers of the town generally, with the exception of The Sun, accepted the im- probable story and published it as true. Actually there was no such confession. “It’s all a lie,” said Capt. Methven yes- terday. It was only the last of a long chain of lies concerning this fright- fully brutal crime. Meantime, they have been for many weeks holding up Thorn and Mrs. Nack as the foremost characters of the ' time and drawing to them morbid sym- path y and hero-worship. The old 11e- reports of hangings, confined to a sin- gle day, were of little demoralizing in- tiuence, even if they Were at all injuri- ‘ 0113, compared with the long sensation which these journals have made of a revolting crime and the celebration they have given to its perpetrators. \ ‘——Live Merchants Keep their namer. before the Public. An Advertisement in THE GAZETTE will be read. ./ T11 E E V. EN mic. },7GA2 ET TE FEMININE , CHAT. Furs are at a premium. It is the pickpockets’ harvest. Numb fingers carry many packages. There may be sleighing by Christ- mas. Hot soda and lemonade are in great demand. ' Delivery wagons begin to look pleas- ingly overloaded. To be sincerely in love is to know the greatest happiness life can give. It is an odd fact that our first name is our last, the other names being given us at the time of baptism. 'Some of the brightest conversation- alists are wholly at a loss to know what to say when they have occasion to use the telephone. “Put a beggar on horseback” is an old proverb, but a theatre box in these latter days is sufficient to show all the ill breeding there is in a person. To some natures the mysterious is absolutely detestable; to others it is a perfect delight to be surrounded with all that’s uncanny and unexplainable. The one object in life of this latter class, then, resolves itself into the fath- oming out to some satisfactory conclu- sion that which has seemed so queer. 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