The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-25

driven from her yard; thai
her husband, who had returned from Cairo
where he had been on an excursion, was a
witness to this quarrel, and had taken up hel
side of it just as Burklow reached his owl
house. She admits that her husband wa!
at the time under the influence of LIQUOR
and while in that condition, volunteered
the statement that he was an ugly man anG
often made it very uncomfortable for her
When Burklow learned the nature of the
quarrel, Mrs. Wagner continued II say, he
told his wife to "go into the house, that she
would be the ruin of him YETI After this
Wagner and Burklow got INTO hot words
and at this point Mrs. Wagner gives the i'm.
portant information that her husband left
his door where he had been standing and ran
Burklow, who had got outside his gate,
back through the gate, which Eulklow
pinned behind him, and ITO his house.
closing the door of this also. She says she
could not say whether or not her husband
had a club N his hand when he
did this, or whether he sub.
cequently used threats against Burkbw's
life, but she does say that Burklow lived in
dread o. him, and was straid to give hin
fair show" Mrs. Burklow, whom the
law did not permit to testify in court and
Burklow himself says that Wagner, dlring
this row, did threaten to take his life when
he got good chance" MsW. further says
that both parties watched each othu until
late in the night. Mrs, Burk ow says the
same thing, and Burklow confirms t. Be-
SECS this Burklow was told on the day of
the qual.el by man named Leach, now
living at Sanborn, Indiana, to be on his
guard against Wagner, and that Wagner had
threatened TO use him up the first
he had. Tbs VT
ness also, for some reason, was not
heard at the trial. Durklow and Wagner,
it should be borne in mind, were working
in the same mill. Wagner was the first
to reach his post the next morning after tn.
quarrel. Burklow followed, armed with Fl
pistol, having in his mind a recollection OF
the events of the night before. He went to'
the mill, and shot and killed Wagner, but
just what transpired few minutes before
this no living soul but Burklow knows
and his statement can have no effect upor
the matter. 1t has already been published
and, of course, is favorable to himself.
Now. it will be seen from Mrs
Wagner's statement, which is
new testimony: G) that her hus-
band returned from Cairo under
the influence Of liquor; ~ that he took up
her quarrel with Mrs. Burklow; 90 that
this led Burklow into the quarrel; a. that
Wagner ran Burklow from the space separ-
ating thor houses into the house of the
latter, who pinned the gate and closed his
loor behind him; % that both parties
watched each other through portion Of the
hight; 90 that Burklow lived in dread Of |
Wagner, and was afraid to give him a
air show" O. that according to Mrs.
Burklow and Burklow, Wagner, in that
quarrel, threatened Burklow's life; 81 that
before this Leach, an absent witness, also
told Burklow that Wagner had threatened
his life.
This, it should be remembered, is all
new evidence. 1t establishes what WIS not
proved on the frial-a proyocation to the
ieed-and places Burklow outside the pale
Of that class of murdercrs which the law,
finding guilty, hangs. 1t was not suf.
ficient justification to take life,
but no jury in the light Of these facts,
would condemn him TO death. 1t is said
that BurklOw was not a good citizen Adj
mittcd. But that fact alone should not be
permitted to decide this case Besides. it
might bc said that Wagner was a danger.
Gus character when under the influence Of
liquor and this assertion can be established
by irrefragible proof. In the town Of Bar
low, Kentucky, where he was raised, he
bears bad reputation, and terminated his
career there by shooting at his father.in.
law. His first wife is still living, and vas
divorced from him.
Public sentiment in Jackson, John on,
Union. Pulaski and Alexander counties il
against the execution Of the sentence Of the
law upon Burklow. In johnson county,
where he was tried, between six and
seven hundred Of the best people signed a
pptition IN Governor Cullom nra yinv far "A