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MONDAY MOKKXNG:::::::::::::JSOY- 28.•, THE RUTHERFORD CASE.The sentence of the defendant on Saturday last closed for the present, at least, one of the most disgusting criminal trials which has ever taken place in this country. Aman who, for his supposed morality, integrity of character, and-Lnanly virtues, was placed in the higKgOsition of a moral reformer, has, if the testimony is to be believed,been proved a hypocrite of the blackest character, and a gcdnndrelof the deepest dye. His course of action has greatly :damaged at . least the present; if not.;fte futiire,usefulness of the institution of which he had charge. 11 was designed nsa reformatory school for way* ward*#ring youth; He has mad it notseralgio,Whileft k tlt;rbe regretted that a blow has been i^ven to a public institution designed • to reform-youth, the public feels that theBoard: ot Managers have not done theirwhole duty in thiB tsase. In the conduction of -an institution like this, it was enough for the breath of suspicion to have tainted the character of its chief officer, to have induced thnBoard to make a change. This is admitted to have been the case in 185/, and then Mri Rutherford's connection with the institution should have ceased. The mistake which the: Board made was in having too mutffivregard for the Superintendent and not enough for the welfare of the hundreds of erring youth, over whom he ha,d charge, Tofee useful, an institution like the House of Refuge,-must, so far as possible, bo perfect in its governmental organization. A good boiler maker will always throw aside a suspected plate of itod, and not wait tilf the boiler has bursted before he removes it.The: result of this trial proves that Mr. Rutherford was never a fit man for the position he held.- It was fault in, the Board of Mmaagers, eompciled as it is of gentlemenThe su great W Douglas,' the press, The auth' of our rea denonirnf Methodis and havii been a 01 tains nun lebritica c following of the A 18G0: Step he saw him gallery c readers t the pqua J. Hardi county f hold of t played t in makii I stood motley c ors, dres ish hear ten year doctrine complisl ted in p but thei manly £ ing stai even th debate, of whic Ho gai raood i dircctec knowle speak t ing arg sometii frontiei ten, ai: shrank in ado t tors 11 . Less into tl south’s with 1 his allmenl n
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Pittsburgh Post
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Nov 28, 1859
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