Should Not Err In Judgment

D. Augustus Straker, the colored attorney oï Detroit, ivas in Ann Arbor yest?rday, inquiring into the eircumwt-a lites of tlie death oí .Ta.-ob Oriffin, the colwed man who ÓJëd In jail on cJuarge of rape. Tliero is a rumor tilia t ome oif"the eonnty officials are to be pi-OKeu-ted in th matter. The deed of Avlniicli Gi-Jifin was acetised. and wMWi he confessed htaiself fcuilty of, ie ene that deseirves all the pumñisthimeint Wtlch the fellow pot. and no clajss olf people wtll make anythlng by atteonptimg to dfend any oriminal, ot the memory of aiiuy criminal engaiged ot in any way ewnnect-ed with iit. The law abidinja; oolored citizens lilad better save theiir money and ex)enl it in Charltable ways. When an tnjustice ie don-e a colored man liere n the nort.hern states, especlally .in MicJiigain, there will be hundreds of vhe people as ready to battle for lis righte as they are themselves. Hut lilis crime is ome that, next to murder, deserves thie etxe-nt of the law, and Ilitere ihould be nO attempt to défend elï-confeKsed Britmtnalg. Great interest has been manüested thds week im the trial oí "Prince lichael." Judge Kimne very aensily luad the portion of the court room set oif lor the bar aind otlier officials comfined to those personages, thus eaviing a li'ttle breatloing room. There have been, many ladies in atndance, the members of the W. C. T. U. belmg quiit-e pironnlnent, and seats aa-e reserved' for ladies by the oouirt offhctols. The forenoon of yeserday waa entia-ely oousumed in se-' uring a jury, i being a difficult' Ming to ftod tweU-e men who had üot heard of the case, aoid -svho were cceptable to botín sudes. Prosecuting ttorney Burroughs, of Wavne couriy, is assiisted by his assistant Mr: pringer, and Col. Jolm Atkinson, of etroiJt, .is being assisted1 by Tlvos. . Kearney in defending the ''Flying iollers."