ANOTHER NATHAN MURDERER.
A California Sheriff, who had got tired of having conscience-stricken Nathan murderers give themselves up and desire free transportation to New York, there to expiate their crime on the gallows, addressed the last candidate as follows ;
‘So your conscience ain’t easy, eh?’ ‘Ah,’ replied the murderer, ‘ I have the curse of Cain upon my brow; I wander, wander, and find no rest. ’ * And you’re the man ?’ 1 1 am. ’ ‘ And you want to be hanged ?’ ‘1 feel that I shan’t rest easy till I’m hanged.’ ‘Well, my friend,’ replied the Sheriff, thoughtfully, ‘ the county treasury ain’t well fixed at present, and I don’t want to take any risk in case you’re not the man and are just fishing for a free ride to New York. Besides, those New York Courts can’t be trusted to hang a man. On the whole, as you say you deserve to he killed, and as it can’t make much difference to you or society how you are killed, so long as you are, I guess I’ll kill you myself.’ So saying he drew his revolver, hut that conscience-stricken murderer had departed in the direction of Alaska with such fervour that people couldn’t see the brand of Cain on his brow for the dust he kicked up.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 534, 4 March 1876, Page 3
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214ANOTHER NATHAN MURDERER. Globe, Volume V, Issue 534, 4 March 1876, Page 3
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