Murderesses' Good Luck.
What becomes, it may be wondered, of the murderesses? (asks the "Springfield Republican"). The way in which these escapo punishment in Chicago, -declares tho State attorney, has become a scandal. Two women were acquitted there recently, and in three years there havo boen .13 • acquittals and only oho conviction, the convicted woman dying *a natural death in gaol. In cruel old -Incland a" woman who poisoned hor .; husband was boiled in oil j now we have progressod so far towards humanity and C-Aralry that Barries skit, "Tho Legend of Leonora," is hardly a travesty, of the favts. Conviction, says this State attorney, is almost impossible if tho murderess "is fairly goodlooking, or is able to turn on tho flood-gates of her tears, or exhibit a capacity for fainting." They aro turned loose and then what- becomes of them? It really inspires wonder. Thoy disappear from tho newspapers, they return to a life in which _ W band is conspicuously lacking, they must associate with people—how aro they received by a world which knows perfectly well that they aro guilty of murder?
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14970, 18 May 1914, Page 7
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183Murderesses' Good Luck. Press, Volume L, Issue 14970, 18 May 1914, Page 7
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