What Rum Will Do | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1879

What Rum Will Do.

SOME years ago, in one of the counties of New York, a worthy man was tempted to drink until he was drunk. In the delirium of drunkenness, he went home and murdered his wife in the most barbarous manner. He was carried to the jail while drunk, and kept through the night. Awakening in the morning, and looking around upon the walls, and seeing the bars upon the windows, he exclaimed:—

"Is this a jail?"

"Yes, you are in jail," answered some one.

"What am I here for?" was the earnest inquiry.

"For murder," was the answer.

"Does my wife know it?"

"Your wife know it?" said some one.

"Why, it was your wife you have killed."

On this announcement he dropped suddenly, as if he had been struck dead. Let it be remembered that the constable who carried him to jail, sold him the liquor which caused his drunkenness, the justice who issued the warrant was one of those who signed his license; and the sheriff who hung him also sold liquor, and kept a ten-pin alley.—Sel.