The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-21

the real time of commitment, and was
three or four days after the sentence, and
not two or three days, as this lumbricform
mummy, this nodorous shadow this rcsid-
uum of man brazenly asserts.
After stating that Clark was brought
here in August, 1867 he declares that all
the fires must have occurred between Aug
ust 1868 and February, 1860, and intimates
that there are not forty-siX weeks in the
space, which is a piece of sophistry and
confusion of dates purposcly made with
that reckless disregard of facts and fair
dealing with them, which is apparent in
every line of his paper, but shines forth
witha sulphureous luminosity in his wretch
ed, purposcly misleading special dispatches
The base and irrevercnd falsifer of his
tory in the dependent journal, denies that
fire took place every night for forty-sx
weeks, and prctcnds that from two months
prior to the arrest of Clark to the time of
the imprisonment Of the incendiaries in the
states prison, there were just twcnty-cight
fires This insane desire to rob Rutland of
half her blazing glories, and trumpet her to
a soothing world as but shade in advance
of ordinary villages, is stroke at her
dearly earned rcnown that deserves instant
rcbukc Mark how a plain, unvarnished
tale shall put the dcractor down Two as
proper men as there arc in Rutland, who
went all through the fiery time, who es-
capped from forty of those fires by flying
out Of doors, jumping from windows,
climbing down cutters and tnging them
selves from roofs, who helped to put out
six other fires, who had the hair burnt from
their heads in two others, their whskcrs
and eyebrows removed in one other, and
lost their coats, hats and boots in another,
and who can show the scars and remnants
of clothing, are men likely to remember
accurately after such personal experiences,
are they not? And backed, as they are, by
those mute corroborative evidences which
cannot lie because they cannot talk, and
being two trustworthy witnesses against q
single, untrustworthy one, they are more
to he believed than he on his simple, UNI
supported word.
He asserts that ten of his twcnty-cight
fires were "known to have originated from
accidental causes" 1t is no use his trying
to smooth over those ten fires in that in
sidious manner Doubtless he has reasons
for his apparent anxiety to have them laid
10 accidental causes" In this conncc-
ton we call attention to the following re-
markablc words, in which it is cautiously
half admitted that there were some persons
engaged in the business not yet caught ::
"1ad nine others are 6eleoed ami ui,derstood
10 hare origjnated from 0tter mems Mdn the
hnnds IF Those trhO are KNOWN as tie 'RUt-
had inceRdid,jes The italics and small
capitals are our own. If we had used the
same language in our true and vcracious
history of the affair, the editor Of our vii
lagc contemporary would have called it a
mean, malicious insinuation, and resented
it ferociously, as personally offensive.
The editor of our village cotcmporapy
asserts that only three inccndiarics Peter
Nary, Thomas Dushan and William Butter
fly, were convicted and sent to the states
prison. The eight grew from confusing
those who are not known as the ''Rutland
incendiarics" with the ''Rutland incendia-
ries" themselves, and getting them all into
the States prison, and was not intended to
hurt the editors feelings. If he considers
himself aggrieved, we beg pardon.
He asserts the detective did not stay with
the Butterflies three months. If the editor
will come out in his paper and say that he
staid with them himself, so that he knows
by personal observation, we will give up
the point otherwise we must contend that
he does not know how long that disguised
sly-boots staid anywhere.
He asserts that the jury thought more Of
an accomplices testimony than of the de-
tectives, in giving their verdict. When a
man arrives at the point of impiously pre-
tending to assume the powers of Omnipo-
tence, and undertakes to tell us that he
looked into the twelve distinct minds of the
jurors in their isolation in the jury room,
and can tell what they were thinking about,
and what they thought of most, he knows
too much, even for the editorship of a GER
tain contemporary, and had better go to tell
ing fortunes, or follow the next circus as a
jugglcr