There is to be, so it is confidently said, a
new inquiry into the Road murder by means of a second Coroner's Inquest, precedents for which, it is asserted, have been found. We hope it will be more discreetly carried on than the first. Full scope will be given for the amplest and freest investigation, but the mystery is so profound that we have no hope of the discovery of a clue.
This anxiety to find murderers, is followed by an almost equal anxiety to release them from deserved punishment when found. We hear whisperings of an attempt to respite James Mullens. We cannot believe that this will be attended by any success, for no man was ever convicted on clearer evidence; but it shows the morbid condition of the half-witted portion of the public, and illustrates a curious tendency in the modern history of crime.
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