A LOSS TO SOCIETY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 322, 4 December 1875, Page 4

A LOSS TO SOCIETY.

(New York Tribune.) A despatch in the Omaha Herald of May 27, announces (he demise of Mr M' Waters. He expired in the Penitentiary at Lincoln, Nebraska, to which stronghold he was some time since consigned upon a charge of taking liberties with the life of a fellow creature. Custom had made this diversion necessary to Mr M'Waters' bappiceea. He had a way of drawing fire-arms and of discharging them at the objects of his momentary prejudice. He seems to have regarded shooting as the mildest argument which a self-respect-ing man conld condescend to employ ; and io consequence of this sentiment a large number of his fellow citizens have, under his persuasions, preceded him to the happy hunting grounds. The newspaper before us observes that he " had so often taken life as to forfeit his claim to human sympathy ;'* ■ but in justice to the deceased, we must say that for human sympathy he didn't care a pin. Looking upon every man 88 either made to shoot or be shot, he bltf eg away while he Qould, and when 5

be couldn't, he died by the leaden bolus which he loved co much to administer to others. The immediate cause of Mr M' Waters' retirement to the penitentiary at Lincoln was his extermination of " a stranger" on account of a trilling difference of opinion. Once cloistered up, be brought the whole energies of his giant mind to getting out. He remarked at the railway depot, just before he went in, that he shouldn't stay in long. Failing to enlarge him. self through his unaided individual exertions, Mr M'Watera orgauised an insurrection, and he was advancing upon the guard with fifteen trusty followers, all of the incarcerated persuasion, when he received an obtrusive ballet. The local journal, in commenting upon his exit, observes that to kill him was the best thing which could be done with him. While we do not absolutely acquiesce in the justice of this theory, we have no doubt that the Lincoln penitentiary is a much pleaßanter and safer place of residence now that Mr M'Waters has left.