Governor Dockery, of Missouri, in his message to the Legislature
of that State, recommends a law prescribing the death penalty for
kidnappers of children for ransom. Also recommends that it be enacted
in every State. It should also apply to another crime, which our penal
laws do not properly reach--railroad train wrecking, which is often
attended with a wholesale slaughter of life, and those who commit it
seldom receive their just punishment, though abhorred and dreaded more
than the ordinary murderer.