She adds nothing, invents nothing, exaggerates nothing (see any New England paper for November, 1869).

This Pike-Brown case is selected merely as a type, to illustrate a custom that prevails, not in New Hampshire alone, but in every state in the Union--I mean the sentimental custom of visiting, petting, glorifying, and snuffling over murderers like this Pike, from the day they enter the jail under sentence of death until they swing from the gallows.

The following extract from the Temple Bar (1866) reveals the fact that this custom is not confined to the United States.--- "On December 31, 1841, a man named John Johnes, a shoemaker, murdered his sweetheart, Mary Hallam, the daughter of a respectable laborer, at Mansfield, in the county of Nottingham.

He was executed on March 23, 1842.

He was a man of unsteady habits, and gave way to violent fits of passion.