The weekly Arizona miner., 1882-09-01
STAGE ROBBERIES.

That WIS terrible scene enacted at
 Globe few days since. Lt the hour of two
 o,clock in the night three men who were en-
 gagged in the planning and murderlng oi the
 ernress messengers and robbing the express
 rompany. were marched 10 the solemn toll
 mo of the bell to a tree on the main street
 of the town and. two of them were hung
 The other who was not present at the mur-
 der vax remanded to the jail to await the
 process of law.
 While mob violence is alwaysto be depfe-
 ..,.d i, xould seem that there vas no
 other way of protection against the ravages
 of these bandits w5th which Arizona IS hlled
 to repletion. They are class of imPeeu-
 nious. lazy wretch&s who have no occupation
 -i.s.-.~3-Ss.--s..s.-das -dasiEs ang---Ihey are
 in life. Life with them Is n mere matter of
 existence. While there is no earthly or
 heavenly reason wEy they should live at all,
 they seem to think 1t even more necessary
 for them to live than for honest people. Too
 lazy to work they undertake to live by their
 wits instead of their labor. When theft and
 fhe gaming table f.l them as a means of support they have recourse to violence and robbery. They intest the highway, and at the uuzsle of pistol force the unarned | traveller to deliver up his money and his vsluables
 Such class of trutes have no right to sympathy, and are not entitled really to the
 l. ,o 1 derers. In most csses murders are the re- result of personal fpeds often instigsted by intoricstion and committed III the heat of passion. HighwayrS, on the contrary, is deliberately planned in cold blood, and when the coach is ordered 10 halt in the darkness the windows are instantly filed with the glaring mouths of fire arms loaded to the muzzles and thrust into the faces of unofending and defonseless victims. Wom- en and children are terrified almost to the verge of insanity. The ruffiaBs stand ready to murder every one of the inmates of the stage upon the least attempt at defense by any one who may prefer to fight rather to T be pi'isged of his money.
 These demons thus place themselves out T side of every decent rule of eelf-protection l that society has established for it's own se- [ curisy They are simply brutes, and are to a be treated as such. They should be hunted Ii fown ss beasts of prey in the mountains, md should be shot down or hanged without mercy. This would seem to bo the only t' method of striking terror to the hearts of II uch men, Still we do not countenance nob violence. And while in the Globe e! ynching the outraged community did hang q he two actual murdvrers, We are glad they al displayed the coolness of temper 10 remand A he accomplice to tke action of the law. as Our authorities are not wanting in ,ispo- n Itlon or ability to enforce the law. But gi nch nefarious outrages are done under cover the darkness. Their preparations for '" scape are well laid, and the work i4 usually al one m some locality difficult of access, and 'ii ie mountain gorges with which they are Ii' erfectly familiar furnish admirable avenues GU escape, 30 that their capture IS matter pr extreme difficulty. OurGovernor prompt tic sued proclamation of reward for the sp- stt -ehension of the Black Canyon robbers us Id all Slll be done that can b. t0 ferret ont m Id punish these fendish invaders of the cal ibiic peace and safety. Let them be hunt vIe down like the wild beasts that they are cor ld lei the vengeance he swift and sum eas "ry Let 1T he by due process of lsw. if pssIble tui l,t R r. a9-.e