Word: murders
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances to be the secret haunt of Myles. The latter shoots Donny Mann, whom he mistakes for another in the dim light, and saves the Colleen Bawn by a "header" into the water. Cregan is arrested for murder on confession of Donny Mann, who is wounded, but not dead. At the moment of Cregan's marriage with the heiress, Myles produces the living Eily O'Connor, Hardress' lawful wife, and Mrs. Cregan absolves her son of even intentional guilt by confessing that she alone procured the glove that...
...sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances to be the secret haunt of Myles. The latter shoots Donny Mann, whom he mistakes for another in the dim light, and saves the Colleen Bawn by a "header" into the water. Cregan is arrested for murder on confession of Donny Mann, who is wounded, but not dead. At the moment of Cregan's marriage with the heiress, Myles produces the living Eily O'Connor, Hardress' lawful wife, and Mrs. Cregan absolves her son of even intentional guilt by confessing that she alone procured the glove that...
...striking and effective than the average. Although the style is far removed from that of Kipling, there is a suggestion that the details of the chief character may have been taken from the works of that author. The remaining two stories, "An Undiscovered Sacrifice," by Felix Norris, and "The Murder," by W. T. Denison, are less interesting. They are of that rather negative merit which characterizes most college fiction, neither very good nor very...
...citizenship. In England the clergy possessed the right to punish for crime all accused persons who could prove their right to the "benefit of the clergy" by reading a passage from the Bible. As late as the sixteenth century, a clerk in orders could be only branded for murder. The well-known story of Becket's struggle against Henry shows the power that the church possessed...
...Were the death penalty removed the heinousness of murder would be relatively diminished. (1) The absence of any aditional penalty for murder would make murder sometimes (e. g. burglars) expedient for the criminal. (2) Punishments for other offences would have to be diminished...