James Titus (b. 1857 - d. 1952) needs a posthumous pardon for the 1886 murder of Tillie Smith. He didn't do it. Call the Governor - 609-292-6000.
James Titus (1856-1952)
The National Police Gazette - October 16, 1886
Reasonable Doubt
A careful reading of the trial transcript supports the argument that Titus' guilt was never established beyond reasonable doubt.
-Denis Sullivan
First Public Image of James Titus
The World - May 2, 1886 - Notice the villainous mustache.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
"I did confess, but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was. Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition. What could I do? In an evil hour I subscribed to a lie; and now only am I truly miserable."
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart, and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty. -James Baldwin
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