THE ORMONDVILLE TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 74, 26 February 1884, Page 2

THE ORMONDVILLE TRAGEDY.

' ['•'Ctyefopa" m the Matnura Ensign.] The Ornioudville tragedy is one 1 of the most shocking m the annals of the colonel 1 When ; I think' of the- poor ; ;! m6 < the'l' (t and her four children," one boy of nine and another, of three, with a girl between, and a baby, alj being \\a\d Qi}e bj 1 on,e by th,e husband and father and their throats horribly out, T can only quote MaodurF— - " What ! All the pretty ohickens and : their dam at one fell swoop? O hell kite!" What state a man must be m when he can hold his children one after the (ithev between his knees and saw their throats with a blunt knife, I can't pon;-

biiiiig kftggk'd iri thli fasfliHh \ . <. , the wi j jjtiiji ,-vas weli-iktiowtf m tlia noighltturHuod as a tlrUnkardl and a man ddtigerou", espeeisiily to Ilia w#e, wlidri diunk, Yeb he could get mad drunk on Sunday, The teetotallers will ask a few questions no doubt, such'" as— "Where did he get tlie. drink?" " How does the publican feel ?'^ " How ought he to be made to feel ?" " Where will he go when he has done selling grog-?" And Echo answers — *• Where^'- ' —- «• ■ -.-— — ~*~ It will no doubt be sufficient to save--the life of the hiiserabre^manlihaTlie i^as drank and insane. Here is where* I disagree with our soft and flabby 1 laws. Drhnken'n'eas and insanity are -only addiiionaP reasons why a manj should be put out of harm's way. Wei d 6 ,iiot ha'ng-fd talcdi^/for vengeance] \mt as we would shoot a tiger or a mad pogvples't' it shbid'd \ do, furtl[er:;har|iii An i^ane; rauifderor, therefore, should be hanged a little more carefully ths.ii any other. A sane man would prob-j -ably never murder again. A.n insanfi man^roba^ly would mtoa' prft^rce -of 5 it' if he i got the chance. -' •'-'! >.V~