Daily Republican., 1889-11-26

Del, as second class mall matter.
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 30; 1889.
some years ago, case was tried
before court in q neighboring city
n which there was practicoiy no de
tense. and when the learned Judge
charged the jury he gave them 10 un
ierstand that he did not consider Il
necessary for them 10 leave the box.
They, however. expressed a desire to
retire. and were out fully two hours,
when they returned with a verdict OF
iot guilty. The Judge, land every one
elso WAS sstounded, and the former,
litter asAinfi the clerk If he had heard
fright said: well, gentlemen,
have been taught ever since was a
pmall boy that the Almighty knew
everything, but from this verdict
Am led to believe that even He does
not know what the findings OF a Jury
will be-" Although there may be
lone who may think that this remark
iavors someW hat OF blssphemy, it is
nevertheless true, and every session OF
pur court verities it. At the Septem-
Der term white man was tried for
HE murder of colored man, and
although 1t was shown clearly that he
pursued his victim, making repeated
lhrusts at him with q date pick. and
That the colored man was doing all in
pie power to escape, the jury which
Tried the case said that he was not
guilty OF any crime In numbering him
We said then that had the case been
reversed and the colored man been the
slayer, he would have been fortunate
j he had escaped the ga.lowt. That
this is true is shown in the case of
GEORGE Ii. Williams, colored man,
whose trial for the killing of a white
boy named Welter L. Wright ended
yesterday. In this case the prisoner
was a kettle drummer in drum
corps, employed to march around the
streets TO advertise picnic that was
70 take place the next day. Contrary
10 the better judgment of some OF the
membeis, they were induced 10 march
down Jackson street to Second, and
when at Fourth street were stoned bv
gang oil men and boys They, how
aver, marched on 10 Second and
turned up Monroe, where they were
again assaulted. The shower Of stones
became so heavy when the band was
about Third street that they were
obliged to stop playing, some of the
htes being knocked out of the hands
Of the players. AT Fourth street the
band was compelled 10 break ranks
and Zee for their lives, when some one.
whom the trial of Sewel Hall clearly
showed was not member of the drum
corps, discharged pistol into the
crowd, woundiug small boy.
This incensed the ASSISTANTS and
they pursued the members OF the corps
put Monroe street, shouting Catch
Ihe SINS of D." "Rill the niggers -
BIC. At Sixth street man was sur.
rounded with maddened crowd and
ne drew a revolver and fired, uniorlu.
mattel y killing one boy and wounding
another. There was, however, but
pne witness who testified positively
hat the prisoner was the man that
bred the fatal shot, but even If he was
the crime under the circumstances
could not be anything beyond man
daughter, ard this fact, we think, was
brought out very clearly by the charge
Of the honored Chief Justice. Still, In
The face OF the testimony, and contrary
10 the law as we understand il as laid
down by the Chief Justice, this model
Jury, because the man had a skin
larker than their own, rendered YER
dict which II carried into effect will
consign him to the scaiiold. Is this
Justice II it is God help us from ever
experiencing any of 1t,
From what we know of the case.
We believe that the prisoner is the man
that fired the shots which killed
Wright and wounded Malouey, and
we think he should be punished, as an
example to others to learn them that
men will not be found guiltless who
walk our streets with reyolyers in their
pockets, which hey use for shooting
down others, who possibly were not
offending. A verdict of manslaugh ter
with a sentence OF five years impiison-
ment would have satisfied the ends of
Justice, but when jury, In the face
Of the facts as presented to them by the
evidence goes beyond that, and rem
hers verdict OF the highest crime
known TO the law, merely because a
man has skin a few shades darker
than their own, 1t is not only travesty
Of justice, but an outrage on the COM
munity which should be rebuked by
The Court setting aside the verdict and
granting new trial.
THERE has been another episode of
the pistol business at the tax collec.
tors office. There are several yer.