REPRIEVED.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2083, 9 August 1890, Page 4

REPRIEVED.

It is a subject of history that on a certain occasion a poor wre'ch was lying under sentence of death for a crime of wh'ch he had been convicted upon evidence exn, clusively circumstantial. Fortunately, just as the law was ebout to take its course, through the intervention of facts brought to light apparently by miraculous interposition, a reprieve was obtained, and the real ; criminal afterwards c early convicted and executed.

j Happily such anch an event is not of i frequent occurrence,but in a few instances jthe danger of relying upon circumstantial I evidence' alone has been demonstrated' 'where: the victims have lost what is most jdear to lives—in « way which 'has been properly ; designated judicial | murder. The mind imtiuotively shrinks I with undisguised horror from the con-, i templation of such a catastrophe. Belter, to let a hundred guilty individuals live, j iiihough it may be to Hiiffrr the pangs of ia conscience hnrtheuod by the frightfun ncubus of ihe r crimes, than-to deprive one innocent poison of his life, which onco taken is lost for ever, pry, too, that all the actors in the trigedy should, hy t.--o great a reliance in the infallihio'y of their judgment baaed on indirect testimony and iheir self-assumed discriminating powers, suffer the subsequent torture of the reflections which must inevitably follow j their participation in the events attending ; the calamity. , The converse of such a ;oase is happily a ..matter for he >rty j congratulation. For instance, when a ■ fellow-creature, long lime a sufferer from pain and wasting sickness, falls under all ' the darkness and paralysing influence 5 of a sentenced to death prematurely pronounced upon him by those whose superior reputation should qualify them to determine, but is relieved from the dire dremmi by resource to some comparatively simple expedient hitherto withheld, either from ignorance of its yaluomr prejudice, and a fatal obstinate adherence to conventional usage.; Such, a result l has limes without number; been achieved: by ; Warner’s safe cure,in some instances when life has evidently trembled in the balance, ,*nd it looked like a toss-up whether the flickering taper of existence was to be ina ntained or not, and that, in spite of all the sympathy, skill,' and experience of honest and kind-hearted physicians and 'attendants.

i Examp'es such as the fodowing can be adduced ad infinitum. To Messrs H. H. Warner & Co. Cobbin Station, Jiodalyne Monaro, N.S. Wales, June 10th, 1890. “ AFout eight months ago mv stomach became terribly swollen, and I became very weak and could sencely stand. I put uiyaalf under the treatment of two hociors in 0 ——, but after a few months they both to'd mo they could do nothing for me, bat gave me up, stying, 1 could not live a week. I think myself it was the liver out of order. I happened lo hoar of Warner’s safe cur« and gave it a trial, hot «t the same time had not much faith in it. . To my utter astonishment before a ween passed my appetite returned, and 1 gradually regained my strong b. Now f feel quite suoug and active, having taken in ali 15 bottles f of the safe cure and 2 phials of safe pills. My age is 65 years. I think it ray duly io wri'e about my Wonderful recovery, and would like it to bs known nbout my own neighbourhood particularly, as I think many poor crentures would be benefited by it. If you wish to have, further-particulars there are several prominent people about here who can testify to ihe ; truth of my statement.” i ( Signed) Mahgaret Thompson.