The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-12-31

STATE. lie claims to have acted the honor
able part, thereby proving Reeder, Geary,
Walker, Robinson, Deitzler, Babcock and
hosts Of other men heretofore supposed to
have been favorable to making Kansas .
free State, to have been all wrong. Time
does prove some strange things.
oNAPR.
There is quite q general sentiment in
Ieavenworth city that the verdict in the
Lecompte-AnthOny libel suit was Just. If
it is vindication in any respect of L.
complies judicial career in border-ruffian
times, it is fraud upon history and JUS
tice. If it is an expression that the late
attack of the TINIs upon the ex-judge was
out Of place and uncalled for, it is . ques-
ton upon which men may entertain an
honest difference of opinion. The attacks
may have been out of time and place, and
therefore not justiiable; but such acts as
disgraced the ruffian officers of 1855 q new
er should receive cOuntenance.- Oskaioosz
Indepeadent.
If there is "quite general sentiment"
of the kind named, we have failed to find
it. With the exception of one good deacon
and few bitter personal enemies, the SEN
timent seems to be that judge ard jury are
about on par with old Lecompte.
AN INTERNAL sC0UNDREL-
The jury in the case of Lecompt vs. D.
r. Anthony, tried at LeavenwOrth, brought
in verdict of guilty, and Judge Sherry
fined the defendant $500. The case has
l1I E.. Ill
libel published in the TIMES. Lecompte may
be good man nor, but he was unquestion-
ably an internal scoundrel in the old DAYS
that tried mems souls.-AfanhattaR Nation
atist
JURY OF NINcoMPOOPs.
The libel suit Of Judge Lecompte against
the LeavenwOrth TINES has been decided by
q jury of nincOmpoOps or partisans in favor
OF LecOmpte. This astonishes everybody, as
what the TINES said was certainly not libel,
for the history of Judge Lecompteis actions
in those old border ruffian days is really
much more damaging to Lecompte than
what the TINES said. But the plucky TNEs
does not let up easy, for it has, since the
trial, been giving extracts from history of
those times, in which Iecompte figures most
u'S"" s"AeAe"' " e"uSS "Ain " "lSh
the SUIT had gone against him-Don,Phdn
County f'epae''edn.
WILL TURN THE TABLES.
Col. Antbonv has been fined $500 and
costs i'm the libel suit of Iecompte. He
has apnealed To the Supreme Cont and We
hone will turn the tables before he ia done
with the affair. He is daily publishing
"Kansas History that will eIonerate him
in tho sves nj the ,.onle-Gorrsu pio;n.
dsci,r
ihh I'M iI.NAi' i'f''ioS>'
We unlntentionally omitted to state last
week that Col: ID. H. Anthony, editor OF the
ifavenworth lines, mas peen cohVicted Oh
libelling Judge Lecompte, and sentenced to
pay fine OF 81 900, or serve term OF one
year in the penitentiary. The mystery to
us is how jury outside OF the internal re.
glons, familiar with the former history OF
'uuse .J
motion for a new trial being overruled by
Jndge sherry the case now goes TO the Sn-
nr.me Court- Ho,ton ErDress.
-. am or mo-, UTICA. MAJ,
III WAS a ''i"O Ian VIII
LOT.
The Ieayenworth Jury in the libel suit of
Judge Iecompte against b. K Anthony, Of
the Leavenworth TINES, returned verdict
of guilty.. The TINES had alluded to some
of the Judges performances while on the
Territorial bench in the early days of Kan
sas. No Free State man who lived IN Nan
sas dufihg Inc porueI ruinah rue, VIII
iieve that anything that the LINES couid
say against Judge iecomP'e couia ne con,
strued as nDei. ne was an o.a Poh.icA'
har'ot, anu aone tne oiuuihs " 'ne Pio-
slavery HUMANS WIN .he gIea;e -. aen an.
ne mas eAlelienu ena"e VI :. or IN.
L. e. h, III 81 old da,L d.ys IN h;s o..
reer.
ANTHONY takes the verdict and the Judge
ment-S50O and costs-auite philosophi-
callv. and saws that he will pav-,hat he
can Stand II II thew can.-Hopard County
Ledoer.
srp,xcr nrc,s,ox
I,an, I.coun,s .ous tim. s;,ce brorvh,
su;t AGAINST d. K. Anthony. editor of The
Leavenworth TINES, for libel. On the
trial the jury rendered a verdict OF guilty.
Anthony has appealed from the strange de-
cision. 1t seems to US thst Judge LecomPte
will In the END lose more tnan ne .ln gam;
by causing the opening up OF MS record
made IN the early Gays Oh hansas, "n'ch
ne must now regret as much rs any one.
The Old troubles had oettef oe iorgo''eh.
-1oPe1o 1'mea
THE EVERLASTING TRUTH.
A Leayenworth Jury have rendered a
| Judgment of $500 and costs. against the
TrMrs. upon a charge of libel-for publish
ing the everlasting truth OF history, ABOUT
Ind LIE Teaonn,aw E.-,cia L..r.oj w..
=. lug.
GROSS INJUSTICE
The Judge in the Lecompte-Anthony Ii
bel suit adjudged Mr.. Anthony to pay
fine Of $500 and costs OF the suit. 1t seems
to us that the verdict Of the jury was .
piece of gross injustice; bnt the tine i'm
posed BY Judge Sherry was as mild - could
have been Waserrlte Telegraph
man who knew a. we'll ~ the Judge,
.oH rs ,h.,s ~ouh no M fine
HARD TO TELL LIE,
Col. Anthony, Of the Leavenworth TIMEs
has just been tried for publishing iibelous
article against old Judge LecomPte, was
found guilty, and adjudged to pay fine OF
SoOO. lie mas takeh 'ne case 70 'nT su-
Preme Coun, anu an ~ - ': re :. 'Ie IL.
Will commune 70 ,en INC nu.n ~ = ~ nu'
somebody, even u tne couI's maze nm ~
10! IL we sncuiu Jurse nUm -. pu uI IL