Word: murderer
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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Considered as a story, "A Benevolent Murder" lacks climax; as a sketch, it is fairly excellent and shows some originality of treatment, although the concluding remark of the doctor is trite and out of place...
...incidents are most worthy of the attention of the writer for college papers. For in this particular story, there is plenty of the tragic and blood-curdling, plenty of scenes far removed from ordinary human life. The mingling of disappointed love, hate, thirst for revenge, compacts with Satan, and murder in one crucible is so seldom seen in college stories, that it would be hard to criticize this tale from a college standpoint. We will say that Mr. Brown has struggled bravely with the difficulties before him, and in certain descriptions and in his delineation of Luke, he has been...
...Kenneth Brown, partakes somewhat of the nature of the author's story in the last number of the Advocate, in its strangeness of conception. It has for its theme the description of the thoughts of an old man whose mind is morbid from much reflection upon a previously committed murder...
...under somewhat parallel conditions had proved beneficial in California. The leaders for the negative disputed all these points. They held that California afforded no parallel for the New Orleans affair; that such a society as the Mafia could be-suppressed by legal means; and that every man accused of murder is entitled to a fair trial...