The Durham daily globe., 1892-08-13
as REURFS SEES 1T.

| so much OF the mock sentlmenlaIIt1 10
| take hold of them and make fools OF
them. He cites this King case and says
| that he thinks such business should cease.
He wants to know why it is that rich
men can 90 free and that poor men are
! hanged, if guilty Of crime which the
| law SAYS one must be hanged for. lie
saws that it is strange to him that in
free country-in a country proud Of its
institutions and proud of its boasted
freedom and purity-one man could have
the power and she right TO legally set
aside the law.
You see, he continues, may kill you,
and | may be rich. | murder you in
wanton woman, who, for a brief season,
bestowed her bogus smiles upon me. |
am arrested and taken before justice of
the peace and am held over. Being
grave charges and the evidence strong
and the presumption great, ! am sent TO
Jail to await the action of the higher
court. The higher court is convened in
few months and a jury of my peers,
twelve good men and true, sit to hear
the evidence No matter what my de-
fence-except, Of course, that had pro-
vocation; the other fellow had inter
fcred-wOn the gracious heart Of a
painted siren; he tried to steal her
affections, bah and in an
alteration | kill him. Perhaps | had
the case pOstponed-a sick Judge, or
something, you know. After a while
the court meets again, and my victim,
poor devil, his dust is mouldering in the
grave-he is forgotten for the most part {;
the maudlin excitement has died out :;
other and fresher and newer sensations
hold the town in the usual nine days
wonder. | have wealth and have EN-
plOycd the greatest criminal lawyer in
the whole state, or, maybe, in half dozen
states-a great, big. brainy fellow, who
makes a jury quail before his glance
and they feel fattered even to take his
hand, and of course he takes the hand Of
all Of 'em. And the state has a cheap
fellow to prosecute, and the thing pro.
Ceeds. But in spite Of all my money has
dOne-this is of course not always the
case, but it was in the KING case--thc
jury, twelve men upon their Oaths, in
accordance with the evidence adduced,
say that / am guilty. The judge makes
a sentence-that | must hang. Think of
it. a rope must be put around my neck,
and ! must be choked to death. Isn't it
awful? But not for a moment must you
remember that | deserted my wife and
child, decided my property to a gay and
festive widow who afterwards shook me
off and bestowed her favors upon an
other, and |, jealous and wicked, MUIR
dered him because he did that which
wanted to do. No just remember that
my own neck is to be twisted = and shed
your tears. But, alb, forgot to say there
is higher court, and my great big old
lawyer pulling me for thousands, says
will find an error-we shall take this to
the supreme court and let those able
gentlemen hear about your unintentional
murder, of which | have pleaded not
guilty as charged And those wise old
owls sit and hear the case argued and are
informed that similar cases-BrOwn VS..
Johnson, 326, Ohio state; Mills VS.. Smith,
245, Nebraska repOrts-they were cleared,
and the case was identical with those
and no two cases ever were alike. But
so bold, so braZen, so wilful and so hell
ish in its every detail was the crime
which | committed in cold blood, the
wise old Judges, even while they hesi-
make dissent in order to exhibit to the
world the superior intellect and wisdom
which must certainly float about that
court Of last appeal, say that the lower
court is right and the opinion Of the
learned Judge below is affirmed. And
really, says NV lawyer, | will get a new
trial-but that fails and | must hang.
That is, | should because all the law has
been sifted; every resOuIc. has been
exhausted; all the quibbles and quirks
and ;echniCalities have been applied
but that does not save my precious neck
But hold on, my friend, says the great
lawyer, make me a mortgage on all you
have except your wicked soul, and if
succeed ii becomes mine-and | will see
the governor for a pardon. ! will EN-.
ploy wOmen-wOmen' tears are always
strong-and | will get your wife whom
you deserted and treated like dog-I
will have her 80 and cry and plead and
wiring her hands and do high tragedy al
the executive office; you have been
prominent and | will write the great
men; / will have senators come and all
OF them will help me defeat justice and
outrage the law, which says that YOU
shall hang. And he does all that. And
the governor says with lots of abs and
ahems that he finds why there was