Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-05-23
The ocor;,tsl last "Wednesday of Congress.

The acquittal last Wednesday of Congress.
man Philip B. Thompson, tried at Harrodsburg,
KY, for killing Walter 81. Davis, will net
surprise any one familiar with the history of
trials of this kind. The law does not recog.
nize betrayal of wife as any justification of
the killing of the betrayer by the wronged
husband. In criminal jurisprudence such kill
ing is murder. But in these cases juries usual
" pay little regard TO the law of the land.
they make their own will the law. A jury is
ssldom known to convict husband for slay-
lag the man who has destroyed his home. In
almost every instance the verdict is acquittal
The result of the Harrodsburg trial sis but an
other illustration of this fact.
Miss Lizzie A. Hays, of Middlesex town.
ship gave birth to an illegitimate child on
Tuesday night of last week and was seized with
commissions next day, and died. On the Mon
day previous she made information before Esq.
Barr, of Adams twp, charging one George
Maui, of Allegheny City, letter-carrier, with
being the father of her child. Maui Twas arrest
ed by Detective Kramer, brought to this coun-
ty and put under $500 bail for appearance at
next Quarter Sessions. Before dying the girl
is said to have stated that Maui seduced her
under promise of marriage, that he was to have
married her last November and that her we'd
ding clothes were ready, but that he married
another girl in the city. The child is living
and is doing well.
II NAV interest the borrowers in the Build
ing & Loan Association, of this town. to know
that the protest sent en- the non-borrowers
against the granting of new charter under the
act f'79 as desired by the majority OF the as
sociaticn alleges that the resolution was no.
adopted by the association lat regular meet
ing of said association" that the vote was
cira roce," that "the certificate was fraudulent
and was gotten up by portion OF the stock
holders of said association at an irregular meet
ing," ETC., "and the evident purpose thereof IL
to unlawfully deprive the subscribers and
others-owners of stock in said association, out
of their respective share or proportion OF the
earnings, profits and accumulations OF SAID as
ISOLATION" The word immense should have
preceded the words earnings" profits"
and Accommodations" and such statements as
these should surely open the eyes of the bor-
rowers of the association as to what they have
to deal with. The protest also states that the
value of each share of stock for the year ending
February %, 1888. was $l634S, as per state
ment annexed. This fictitious value OF each
share was gotten at by adding the face value Oh
all the mortgages held by the association, ssz,-
400 to the real assets of the association at that
time over estimat ted at s., ,l64.7S, making S9s,-
5647S in all and dividing that sum by the
number of shares in force at that time, 6o9'
We don't know who invented the idea, Dut
who ever did ought to be decorated with a
leather medal. The real value of each share Is
the installment value, at that time S91.25 with
what the law allows, 6 per cent. interest for
middle time, added, or as long as the assocla-
ton is voluntarily paying 10 per cent, with III
per cent. added. This association should have
gone under the act of '79, two years and more
ago, when the 10 per cent minimum premium
was wiped out, the taking off of which or rather
the fact of its ever being in the bylaws perpe-
trated a fraud upon the borrowers previous to
that date. No money should have been loaned
after that, but it was, and the borrowers since
have had an unfair advantage of the others
The first borrowers, however, have finally
walked up to the fact that they are being
swindled, they have put temporary stop to the
business and if we mistake not, it will stay
stopped.