The daily gazette., 1874-12-11
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Everv EVsasissg in Hot Jvatel,--
- The Doctor West Terdtct Er-
platts ed!- Kent Co. InsultedS 4.
Mr.. EDTToR:-I believe YOU ara ever
ready to uphold truth and to assist in
uprooting error. / believe the unper.
yerted mind OF man ID inclined to prin-
ciPles OF Justice. ask O space IN yo,r
valuable paper for the purpose OF remoy-
ing q stigma thrown upon Kent county
by Q sheet OF Questionable Character.
known as the Evsry Ereaing.
we have no censor Of the press in this
country, and on account OF the high
moral Character OF most editors, there is
no necessity for ,one. Occasionally, a
yenomous pup gets control Of the Quill,
but our laws against libel are a partial
protection against the few unprincipled.
Inc Every Epeniilg, OF the 5th instant,
with unparalleled malignity, and entire.
" without cause or provocation, calls
twelve OF Kent county's worthy citizens
"perjurea liars" 1 will state that IL il
my intention, at the next term of Court.
to find out, II possible, whether or not
private citizons have no rights which
that paper is bound to respect.
] will state that was one Of the ju-
rors who signed verdict Of mot guilty"
IN the ", West case. And knowing what
! do OF the matter ! am proud of the
verdict Although we have been vilified
by the partisan press and BY hired news
mongers, ! never took it upon myself,
nor did any OF the others, to publicly
and explicitly explain.
Eleven OF the jury were from the reg.
ular panel, put there through the .aQen
cy OF q regularly elected Levy Court of
the county, and the one talisman has
since been elected a Levy Court Com
missioner. Is it not an insult to the
majority OF the voters Of the county Of
Kent to tell them that Philomen c. Scot
ten, the Levy Court Commissioner from
West Dover 10 "perjured iar2' Eusry
Eueaiag says he is; yet, every Democrat
OF Kent county favored him with a vote.
not two months ago.
1t is not generally known, except
among Vests friends, but it is a fact.
that much Of the damning gossip in ref
erence to this matter was of the "South-
ern outrage" stripe. manufactured in the
"Landaulet Williams" style. will ex-
plain:
Two doctors in Philadelphia, with
branch Offices all over the country, had
patent Intoxicating gas, for treating
diseases OF the lungs. West was con-
nected with them in selling this gas; he
A>SsSs~ eF VIZ oPR0kdbubs Il6 dtbO uStu III
| too freely himself. 1t, as l believe, and
as was the belief OF the Jury, affected
his brain. believe the negro Turner
made the attack on him, and so did all
the jurors; and we believed further that
his lWest's) actions afterwards were
mainly due to the effects of this gas.
have made it my business to inquire Of
q number Of the ablost physicians in the
county, and the opinion was found uni.
versal that West was temporarily de-
ranged by the use of the gas. But il
the owner OF this patent gas could make
Doctor West out a heartless devil, and
his virtuons and delicate wife q She
| tiend, and the insurance which the prov
ident husband and father had secured
on his life, a motive, then the gas would
be shielded, and they (the gas owners)
could continue to make their 1000 per
cent. upon it. 1t was too great q matter
to allow the life or reputation of one
man to stand in the way Of Money
made rumor and report and circulated
them; money from the source tried to
| do greater things, but failed.
As was one of the Jurors on that case
know whereof speak. There was not
one iota OF evidence Worthy of credit
against him; and the circumstantial evil
dence would bear no tests of common
sense. Rumor and report had made
enough to have hung saint, but there
was none on the witness stand, nor sent
to the jury boz, OF any weight. will
state the facts in reference to the only
apparent important witness ON the part
Of the prosecution: One man swore
t"that ON Monday morning about eight
lo'clock, the day that West killed Turner,
that West was following Turner up and
down the streets Of Dover, and that he
(West) stopped to talk with him (wit-
ness) about that Turner boy being
drunk" and again before nine O clock,
tho same morning. Tarner came up the
street again and West following him /;
West again stopped and talked with the
Witness" 1t was evident that this wit
ness thought his testimony important; /;
SO it would have been, IL TRUE. aY il none
OF the jurors had known the truth; it
would have shown that West was on the
lookout for 13rpsr,,. But one OF our
nnmber knew that. the witness was re-
IvenGefuly nistdkea, for on that very
Monday he Guror) was on the road from
1Hazletville to Camden and raw West in
Hazletville at Mr.. TunnelPs store. nine
miles from Dover, ut about nine O'Clock,
land between II and IA O'Clock he saw
Mr.. Slay and West drive into Camden
from towards Aazletville, and he Guror)
L huoW bhot w COZ ab NV th A(ONCf h1uChi
before l2 o'clock that day; confirming
the statement Of West and nullifying
ithis Important negro's testimony.
i Another witness came ON the stand
one morning, with batch of his sur
Imises; these were taken as evidence,
and the public was thereby mislcd.
But what little ofdirect evidence there
might have been, In it was vitiated by
what happened beneath our window
tho previous evening. This witness
was seen, heard and positively recog'
1nized by several of the jurors, he being
felieitously entertained by negro
woman. After all this was seen and
heard, from our window, that misce.
Igenationist might have snrmised till
he changed to his favorite color without
Ieffect. Much was said, but notproved,
Iabout Turner's inoffensive disposition.
1t was only the Saturday before he lost
his life that saw him with drawn
knife, swearing that he would kill a
man II he could find him, and, from
his manner, l believe he meant what
he said. And from other things which
III kenw Of him, knew him to be a
desperate kcharacter when under the
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