The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-27
WITNESSES BuLLDozED.



Otis cambeIi and Charlie kirkpatrick.
Who Were Summoned to Testify
IN the Carl Miller Case, Warned
TO ~Slip Out"
The case of the state of Kansas VS.
Carl Miller, brought under the prohibi-
tory law and assigned for hearing
Monday, was continued by Justice
Bachelor till Monday afternoon upon
the afiidavits of S. Ella Bell and Lucin-
dia Campbell. The former being first
duly sworn upon oath, says
that she had conversation
with Otis Campbell on Saturday morn
ing. IN which he said, in re-
ferring TO his and Kirkpatrick's connec-
ton as witnesses in behalf of the state
in certain liquor prosecutions, that they
had been threatened by the defendants
and their friends; that the same parties
had made threats against Mr.. Bell, who
has been active IN assisting the prosecu-
ton; that the whisky interest had made
up purse of about $500, to which some
of the most prominent mOnied men of
the town had contributed; that the
movement to defeat the prosecutions
was backed up by some OF the most in
fluential citizens of Emporia; that the
temperance people had not done
anything SO far. and that It
would be too late for them to
do anything after a man had his skull
cracked with brick; that Kirkpatrick
had already gone and that he-Campbell
should also leave.
Mrs. Campbell, the mother of Otis
Campbell. said, being first duly sworn
that on Saturday morning her son Otis
came to their home apparently much
agitated and frightened, got small
quantity of clothing, and told his
mother, the afflant, that he had not done
anything, but that he had TO skip"
and thereupon went away, and that she
had not seen him since.
As the witnesses had both been en-
ployed in this city for over year and
had given the gentleman for whom they
had been working no intimaiion of their
intention TO leave, it is reasonable to
suppose that their departure was
due 70 the cause set forth in the afflda-
Wits OF Mrs. Bell and Mrs Campbell.
If anything were wanting to show
forth the infamous character of the
liquor traffic It is furnished in this case.
What would the alleged good citizens
who cOndone the persistent violation of
the prohibitory law and sympathize
with the whiskey-vender think of a COM
munity in which witnesses against horse
thieves, burglars, hOuse-burners and
man-slayers could be run off with the
view ofdefeating the ends of justice with
out arousing to action every man who
is an advocate of civil order and the en-
forcement of those laws which insure
safety to life and property? And yet
here is an open and fragrant violation of
just as sufficient cause for alarm as if
the men who have combined to protect
the offenders against the liquor law
had united and employed similar means
to break down any other regulation on
the statute book. The enOrmity of the
act is counterbalanced by the simple re-
deeming feature that it reveals, in all OF
its moral deformity, the true character
of the element whose interests it has
sought to protect by resort to measures
which will array against it in solid pha-
lanx every man woman and child who
honor the traditions of Kansas as too
sacred legacy to be dishOnored and
profaned by whisky thugs and bull
dozers. The state which twenty years
| ago grappled with the miniOns of the
slave power and proved the victorious
baltic field of liberty for all men did not
emerge victorious from its warfare with
the lawless hordes which poured in upon
her from Missouri TO be vanquished by
the foes which have arisen within her
own borders to menace her pc ace and
sully her fair name.