About That Saw Log
"LeOB ser.' Wasn't ,1 iMíOll- yes, h:is name was Grltfln - killed In old V;.sliteii;i v recent l,v V W;isn't his hooter justiíicil hy the nurier. and ni]' court.s '.' lie as aecused ofértale, bal a ninif lees atoocioiu bhan tbe 'l'cxas ilarkey and 1m.:1i witc known 1 o I c i;ii 'I lie ('iiiincr lias a whole raiv lii :i i t .- - 'ípsilanti ScnllJK'l. Has HI ttocxugt '.' "LaM gee." The ni man referred to was nol killed a 1h:s i -oinily bul Ín Oakland COUnl'.v : lalt that niakes no cüííereu-c. He was iiot killed beoauae of bil crime, hm beceuse re&isted arrest. 1I' was nol roasied ulive; lie (lid not Jnve a reil ]n it íi-imi thrust in his t'niíiat ; he did not llave hla eves jal)l)ed out wiiJi, lie same cruel instrument ; Hiere was no mob oí Hl'cHidthirsfy people baktog lito tlieir OWH lisin.N the (idm.iiiistration of bocalied ■■juslice." The ((Mii-ier dtd .ins!i y lile shOOtlng lie ause it was jusi ii.ihle iiinler tile' law. H1 the people ií l'aris. Texas, allowed tbe law to have taken its cotlTBe does tbe Seiitiuei belleve for a minuto th.-u any jury tliat could "nave Ix-en ilrawn to t'hiat Mate would liave cleared-tih.í ►rí-ioiiei1''.' Tlien why not be dfrUised human beCu- tortead oí barbarían and brutas? Becanse a criminal dbee a brutal deed, mned a wfcote commaatty make hyenas of theniKelvcs in order tO property avenge flw? ertoe '.' Are tbere iw coarta ol luw to adm irSter justi-e Ln Texils 7 WÏLat wouM the öeotltoe) hay if a mob kUiiouW have goue to the county jaü here and taken the man who had been placed thero on Bueplcloo of beiklg ttje inunlci-cr of .Jay Pulver, and torturad hitn to dratli ? Would it approve mi li a thijis '' Would not tfae editor oí tbe Sentlnol conslder tn:it t was dangeroua to live in a cfMiinnniity tlii.it would tolérate such a thínji V I'nlcss wc are wondcrfully mistaken lw; would. Wirii ilic CcMiricr cries out agalnst ■s nul t!i ■ iniiii.-liment of crimínala for iiinie. l:r.t inctli(:l that the poople o! Texas and oMut commui. ii i'h.-ii aectk of om nation see fit in use. Wbes any country gatB eo tíUat the admiii:sirati(ni of juslirc ! laken out of the Iiands of the courts and ])ut into tli!' hanils oí a mob, it lias (urne to a dangeroue state, and (leseives the s-verest inndemnation poeBJble.
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