We have more than
once expressed our belief that he was wrongly accused in
the matter of Mr. Bonteen's murder. Indeed our readers
will do us the justice to remember that, during the trial
and before the trial, we were always anxious to allay the
very strong feeling against Mr. Finn with which the public
mind was then imbued, not only by the facts of the murder,
but also by the previous conduct of that gentleman. But we
cannot understand why the late member should be thought
by the electors of Tankerville to be especially worthy of
their confidence because he did not murder Mr. Bonteen. He
himself, instigated, we hope, by a proper feeling, retired
from Parliament as soon as he was acquitted. His career
during the last twelve months has not enhanced his credit,
and cannot, we should think, have increased his comfort.
We ventured to suggest after that affair in Judd Street,
as to which the police were so benignly inefficient, that
it would not be for the welfare of the nation that a
gentleman should be employed in the public service whose
public life had been marked by the misfortune which had
attended Mr.
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