Saturday, September 3, 2016

Crime’s Worshippers.

How murder becomes a virtue and misfortune a misdeed—two suggestive tableaus which every jail in the country has seen enacted.

The depraved taste of a certain class of humanity is very well shown in the way they run after criminals. The greater the crime the greater the hero. Cases of this kind can be cited from the story of any jail or prison in the country. The brutal wife murderer finds an army of sympathizers, while the poor, betrayed young mother who, in a fit of madness, has made away with the pledge of her fall from virtue, is abandoned by her sex to her despair and her doom. Our artist has effectively pictured the contrast. The shame is that such a contrast exists to be pictured.


Reprinted from "Crime's Worshipers." National Police Gazette 15 Dec 1883.

2 comments :

andyh0027 says:
September 28, 2016 at 10:29 PM

Wow, death groupies have always existed, I guess.

andyh0027 says:
September 28, 2016 at 10:29 PM

Wow, death groupies have always existed, I guess.

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