The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-02
THE SUE KINNER CASE,
SHE PRoCUREs BAIL.
Important Remarks of the Court, in
Case,

On Saturday evening Henry Kinner,
Sues brother. and VIM. Renfro and s. B.
Hendron, (painters) her brothers-in-
law and Mr.. Philip Pfaff, (plasterer)
we're accepted as bail for $4,000
for Miss Kinner and she was released. 1t
is not likely that Mr. Kohn is any less
liable to be shot, now, than he was before
bail, for all agree that Sue is so desperate
in regard to this matter that she will be
utterly careless of restraint. 1t is this
that causes many TO think that Mr., Kohn
must have made her some promises which
are unful6lled have wronged her
10 some way, or she would not be so
desperate 10 regard to this matter. He
denies that he ever promised to marry
Der, and declares his belief that the case
is wholly one of blackmail
Judge Peasants occupied about an
hour in reviewing the matter, before fixing
the bail, and had we space we should be
glad to give his words in full. AS it is, we
must content ourselves with a summary OF
the points he touched upon. He said tha
the attorneys on both sides admit that
this is bailable case; that the defense set
up the claim of justification by simply say
ing that 1t was case of seduction-that
defendant had been seduced by the com
planning witness, and that she was iusti-
fed 10 her actions in attempting his life
etc. He said that this was false senti
ment whieh prevailed in the public MUD
generally-the opinion that the person
seduced had the right to take the lite OF
the seducer; that he was of the opinion
that the defendants 10 cases
| of this kind were not the
that there was too much fault on tina. side:
that if they had refused to acquiesce il
the matter and had kept on the right side
nothing guilty would have transpired. He
said that there was nothing, IN his opinion
so loathsome and deserving of punishment as
the cripe of seduction, but punishment
should be according to law. He SAID the
only one who would probably be justified
inusing violence or taking life in such a CASE
would be the injured party. The seducec
is one of the injured parties-but both art
guilty parties. The really injured partie.
would be the father, mother
brother or sister Of the seduced, but he die
not think that they would be justified il
killing the seducer, unless, perhaps, it wa,
done on the spur of the moment and a
the time when the crime (seduction) wa:
transacted; but still, even then, he wa.
in favor of abiding by the common law
for he believed that there we're many inno-
cent persons who had been killed, when.
if the truth was known, they had been one
| of the seduced parties as well as the Sc
ducers. The defendant in this case. il
appeared to him, was attempting to make
a martyr of herself, but he advised her to
stop where she was; that if she had any
| friends they had better advise her to seek
redress in a different way; that he consid
cred her assault on the young man entirely
unjustihable, She may claim, as she does
that the young man forfeited his life on hi.
breaking of certain pledges or promises
but that would not Justify her in taking
his life-and if the attempt which she haC
made to take his life mad proved fatal
even although he may Lave forfeited it.
she would not have been justified
| ohu "ouL0 hdNO bCCu puBiSiltI
accordingly.
In an ordinary of case thu,
kind. where he charge was, as in thi.
case an assault with deadly weapon with
intent to commit murder, he usually fxeC
the bail at $1,000, but it appeared to hin
that this was an unusual case and hi
would fix the bail for her appearance a
court at the January term at $4,000.
In regard to fixing the amount of bail tt
keep the peace, the court said that it wa
admitted that the defendant is poor ant
not able to furnish large amount of bail
but he believed that 81 900 was not to,
much. She had shown determination I,
take the life Of this young man; that if an,
one had made two attempts to take his tn
Judge life, even though that person
was under $4,000 bonds to keep the peac
it would be question with him whethe
he would then allow such person to rul
at liberty, and not kill them on sight; an,
that if he did protect his own life unde
such circumstances, the law would justif
him. This was a pretty severe rebuke t
the rowdyism aud ruffianlsm which has, a
times, prevailed in this city. and prett
fair warning to rufians that they carr,
their life 10 their hands, and the first at
tempt at an attack upon threatened partie
might result in their own death.