Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-06-02
D~lSGRACEFULLY. DONE.
THE SABBATH BROKEN AND HORSES
DRIVEN TO DEATH.
Laddonia Outraged by Drunken Rowdies
from Mexico---The End Not Yet.

from Mexico--The End Not Yet.
1t often becomes our painful duty
as a journalist of this century, and as
the manager of a paper published for
the people nov on earth, to chronicle
events which we should prefer to
keep from the public. We have
often said, and still repeat it.: we
publish the news and express our
opinions without fear or favor. If
you don't want to see it in the LEDGER
don't do it. AS long as a matter is
private or domestic, we have no bus
mess with it; but when a community
has been Outraged-as was the case
last Sunday-then it is the duty of a
newspaper that pretends to have an
opinion, and to be a moulder of
public sentiment, and a protector of
the interests Of a community, to
come to the front and handle the
matter without gloves, even though
we have friends implicated.
AS most of our readers have heard,
Or as they a CLEAN from our Lad
donna correspondent, Laddonia had
a church dedication last Sunday, and
there were other parties there from
Mexico besides Rev. J. G. Maple,
who was supposed to be the attrac-
ton of the day.
Some of Mexico's young men, who
do not always attend either church or
Sunday School at home, must have
have had an idea that DR.. Maple was
going to preach an extraordinary
sermon, for they made arrangements
to ride eighteen miles to hear him,
taking ladies with them. This crowd
of young people had not gotten out
of the corporate limits of Mexico
pciOlC lltil DctiltlOI DcCOtu HOt lilat
of a chronic church goer. The spirit
was with them, but in a liquid state.
They sang, but their song was not a
psalm. They exhorted and preached
the Scripture that says, ''who spares
the rod, spoils the horse" On
reaching Laddonia, they proceeded
at once to take the town. We have
neither the room nor the desire to
. picture the many playful antics exc
cuted for the benefit of the people OF
Laddonia. Some of the parties ran
their horses on to Farber as advance
agents Of the grand circus which
remained at Laddonia. A little race
:. under the main tent was INDUCED in,
# and Miss Calbreath, OF this city, who
p was riding with "~Frenchy,' was
thrown from the buggy as they turned
q corner ''too quick" She he'd one
arm and her head badly bruised up
"Another boss" was then brought in
and the circus went On. But we viii
} not dwell. Suffice to say that Lad
Il donia was outraged and Mexico scan.
dalized by a lot Of drunken rowdies
y We do not claim that all of the boys
&c were drunk in fact, we know the,
were not. We do not mean to say
e that all of the boys took part in thu
e circus-we know they did not. W,
don't mean to say that all of the boy.
# drove their horses to death-we know
they dId not. But W. do mean t
say that Edw. Stasey, Carroll Gillian
Jacob May, and last, but not least
John La Bonte, alias ''Frenchy,'
alias we do not know what else, hav,
been arrested for their conduct OF
:, that day. These parties were ar
rested under section 1909, vol. |
revised statutes of Missouri, which
d makes the ''cruelly driving of horses
:. or the abandoning Of them to die
&C., a misdemeanor. Section 1644
makes this otfense punishable will
c not more than a year in Jail, and no
more than a 81, 900 fine, Or with both
We do also know that Edw. Stasey i:
= charged with having driven a flint
horse in good health till it actually
y fell stone dead in the Shafts; tina
he treated his horse in a manne tina
would haye been u%nbecoming to
y, savage of Tartary that he a~ctuall.
beat and drove his horse till it feI
dead. We have read of horses bein,
driven to death in a race for money
" or in a race for life after a physician
y but never such a case of cruelty a
this is alleged to be. The horse be
as longed to Clark & Miller, and, W
to learn, it has been paid for. Caro-
Gillian is charged with having t
s. leave Ills DOlSC DCUiuu, ~ having w
n come too tired to walk. 1t has sine
been brought in, but we do not kno'
to what extent it is injured. 1t ais
. belonged to Clark & Miller. Jacc
y May had one of K. r. Cunningham
horses, which he is charged with ha'
ing cruelty driven. He settled a
AT bills for damages. The parties me
Oh toned above are comparatively your
SIS boys, and for this reason, at leas
should be dealt with as light as poss
it. BILE, considering the offense. But '
m do know that John La Bonte,
it "Frency," is not young that he is
great stout fellow, who should blu
an every time he eve again meets
a horse, and should always in the I
tie ture be forced to ride behind q CO