The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1907, Page 10

by tho Presse Publishing Company, No. 6 to © Park Row, New Tork ‘Palered at the Post-OMoe at New York as Becond-Clas¥ Mail Matter NO. 16,6092. EV ceter World’ ‘8 | Soon eon sorerrnetsorgor ioe bdee eter eee cece Or toe eens enna a nreeneneeres “A WORTHY LIFE.” T IS a more heinous crime in this commit perjury, make false repurts to the Insurs manipulate a life insurance com- pany into insolvei That is the law as administered by Mr. Justice Blanchard, who on Thursday, in the Criminal Term of the Supreme | Court, released William A. Brewer with a fine. Edward Ferris was the next case. He had stolen lead pipe: He was Promptly sent-to the penitentiary. William A. Brewer swindled the policy-holders and stockholders of Washington Life Insurance Company, of which he was president pald himself and his relatives big salaries out of the guarantee fund ow made the company insolvent thereby. To conceal the deficit he (ade false reports. He marked off policies amounting to $500,000. He fepeatedly committed perjury. }_ All this Brewer did for a series of years. 1” Yet Mr. Justice Blanchard, sitting on the bench, gowned in the robes of justice, certified to “his worthy life,” and added “He ‘has been 8 ithe victim of a vicious system rather than inspired by motives of dls- - honesty.” | What motives did “inspire” Brewer when he stole, falsified the books | fand committed perjury? He did not do those things on impulse, for | he kept it up year after year. What other motive had he then to take to himself money that did not honestly belong to him? Edward Ferris received no encomium from the bench. twas a little lead pipe. What were Ferris's motives? Maybe he had a hungry wife and children. Maybe he was drunk, his old mother said. Possibly he was only a little, ordinary criminal ond any doubt he was not and had never been a life insuranc : All he took Ny SSS Zax sn Md MUU 77 ar Brewer's fine is less than he took every week for himseif and h Telatives. Every year he took more than enough to pay fifty fines. = This is the second of the insurance cases to come to trial. The (2 first was the case of Burnham, tried before Mr. Justice Greenbaum ham was convicted. Justice Greenbaum did not certify to “his hy life’ nor sympathize with him as a “victim.” He sentenced ham to Sing Sing. § The District-Attorney brought no more insurance-cases before Jus fice Greenbaum. Brewer is now free. He is immune to further prosecution or pun- ent. Ong fine of $500 settled for the hundreds of thousands of e. irs he got away with, the perjuries he committed, the false statemen made the stockholders and policy-holders whose money he took ” Is this really a “worthy” life? Is 4 ae “worthy” to be a thief with the i 3 “proviso that enough is stolen? 4 it. “worthy” to be a perjurer, 4 , of course, that the per- } fs a necessary incident in tak- td the thoney of small stock- and policy-holders? Confessedly it is: not “worthy” feesteal a few feet of lead pipe. “Where is the line to be drawn? what sum does larceny become ly"? Brewer took only a few red thousand dollars, If he had taken as many millions as the c. a fine even might have been dispensed with and his ific Might read “laudable” instead of on! } Mr. Jerome displayed h al j case. —— bringir th In my Youth I lived tr Where, when a season of dro ned crops and th: fo hold prayer services tn 0} Yor rain, Yet Halt eo disast: weather bxceptions fost undrok: ter Ht rained Mune t© August The past » “ are the heet pros . . ‘ Hhessed terrible illnesses Que to ecce oF Rrle, unseanonable weather * epr silning e Bias been 06 backward that up to Ma 9 Bo planting hae been done Harms near New York. Vege “" Sparce and high He in rife, Sure Hhis As & calamity worse pay droug! Mra 8 aTH Ridgenela Park World Almanac, ‘Pe the Be. f The Eve ow RE: Where can i fing £ : About the Dist t 4 A 4 Government of Washing i . , : a. 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This Is th 1, another t n tha people « and how you. eit ae 2 he Syndicates and t - they always bring ‘+ tw wrote ‘em. > Puss thought « and I had to laug. when ’ Anny day if Puss Montgomery and Mamma De : Mamma De Brane r her persona pularity that) Brans: sa than cide (RAP Ke * holds the fleet together. No, I atm’t saying it's me, but I notice that when I was Fy and that he and Ab! e two ladies meet at a active, but Mamma De Bra 2 By Maurice Ketten I know, ex ept that Mamma De Branscombe ip rd, and Puss threatening to §o r flat consists of ni , pey McKnight? Bay, Dopey 4 snags across the street and bac little emphasis to them. mery's referendum to Ma ck tn tips carrying © to get n bigwer tip a De Branscombe’s oa kid, Do nd, may opey says {t's an ill wind that don't bi oper New York Thro’ Funny Glasses. By Irvin S. Cobb, From Hi Glasses to Green Glasses. ow you off Geamentn ™ PUBLIC OPINION) AND 1'D LIKE To SAY A FEW WORDS. na amas“ vee To You, | LONG PAT NEW YORK, May 4 EAR GREEN—It \# now time to remove on and children to a place of-safesy, for William Turle ishdelights J If COUNTY prosecutor, has begun to shatter the firmament again. Thae low, dull, equashing sound is caused by the District-Attorney raping upon & group of comparative strangers who were < disinterested gentleman, employed as an a York i together to twi uel effects Into the present > t the softest things we have. I do not recs f the punctured objects of his hob-nalled att *{ at this moment, but ft doesn’t matter, anyway aren't wealthy, As nearly as J can figure tt out the three mangled unfortunates were guilty of the crime of being unpopular in westera Wall street, and that's almost the very worst thing you cam commit in our town. There was the deplorable Perking affair, There was a Grand Jury that persisted {nan officious and reprehensible attempt to eanatch up somebody whe Wan avealthy. Hut Mr. Jerome deftly directed their attention to an Interesting stabbing affray that had Occurred among a number of poor or indictable persons in Mulberry Bend Park, and then be left for Lakeville, which {# a place im AUL RIGHT! ( BET 200 on \ AZELINA ‘ Xs * Connecticut where he works for the salary that ts paid to him in New York. 1G THe FIFTH - ile was busy in his justly-famous workshop making brass megaphones and : . }vronse cuspidors and other alds to conversation when the terrible news was | brought to him that the Grand Jurors had returned @ ¢rue bill against George W. Perkins No time was to be lost! Mr. Jerome caught the first train for New York t had a smoking car attached. They met in the court, where Mr, Perking, just driven up in two cabs, was wiping his feet on one of Mr, Jerome's assistants and ling @ bottle of smelling salts to his nose to keep out the oder of common people. There were apologies and explanations, “Say no more,® sald Mr. Persine kind! We will let it drop.” “We will,” said Mr, Jerome, It will not 1y any more," sald Mr, Perkins, motioning toward the Indletment It will not,” sald Mr, Jerome, kissing him impulsively on the forehead, “i% shall not be mentioned again,” And it never has, Green, it never has. . But the present case is different. By some unfortunate slip « regular F: had been arrested for assisting the Vacillating poliey-holders to make up saying anything to the policy-holders @bout it What wes even ” rs ree than arresting him, the base wretch persisted in confessing, although twe | “ |county detectives and @ process server had their thumbs down his throat am@ =» were trying to induce him to secept « parole. | Mr. Jerome was again in Connecticut attending to his oficial duties; but the jad in charge, Whose name would be Smith If he Gidn't wear « placket im the | middle of 1t, arose to the emergency, He promptly whapped « large county gah © |sround three of the opposition “1 wae nobly done,” said Mr, Jerome, ‘My saststadt, Mr. Smythe, a pre nounced according to the new epring block, le 4 capable yéang man. He | give the college yell better than any of the Harvard boys on My @tam, a2 cad that the men now Under arrtst will get exact Jorues, I mys will see hee. | they get it” And _* 4, he sent out for an axe Yourn,