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Punishment for Educated Criminals

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 6, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 46.

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Punishment for Educated Criminals

By Editor

INTELLIGENT and thoughtful people will approve the refusal of Governor Hamilton of Illinois to pardon Charles W. Angell, the embezzler of the Pullman Palace Car Company, who was sentenced for ten years from February, 1879. The fact that a criminal is well educated, and has had more than ordinary advantages in life, does not make his crime less deserving of the full penalties; in fact, the majority of the people would wish him punished more severely.