Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-06-17
,rhe Governor of Maryland will,

The Governor OF M0fSlttilu VIII, ~
is stated, when he visits Annapolis
next week issue a requisition upon
Governor Mckinney, TO deliver up
Captain Gaskins, of the Virginia Pc
lice Force. Indicted by the grand
Jury of Somerset County orshooting
one Isaac Sterling, he is wanted in
MARYLAND to answer that charge.
The demand will not of course be Ell
tcrtained by the Governor of Virgin
ia for one moment. 1t is so foolish,
unjust aud unreasonable that the
parties wanting the requisition and
The Governor who permits himself to
be used us y tool in asking for it, are
equally entitled only to silent and
profound contempt Considered III
whatever aspect the case may be, no
reason can be found for surrenderins
Cant. Gaskins 10 The Maryland au-
;iorities. That Gaskins shot Ster-
hug is not denied, we believe, but he
had the right TO shoot him He
found him taking ieloniously the oys-
ycrs oil Virginia, he pursued him as a
geIon when he fed, he shot him as u
:cion by virtue Of the authority given
10 him by the State of Virginia, when
all other means OF arrestins him rs Il
;eion had been exhausted. Why then
should he be surrendered TO the
Maryland authorities: Marylanders
say because Sterling was shot
by Gaslins in Maryland waters.
The Marylanders who say so, how
ever. are not the disinterested and
law abiding citizens OF Maryland but
men. who like Sterling steal and car
ry away the oysters from our oyster
beds whenever the opportunity is
presented. On the other hand Vir-
ginians who witnessed the shooting
OF Sterling say it was done in Nir-
GINA waters and will the Governor
of Virginia say, they are not equally
worthy OF belief, by honoring the
reouisition which is asked at his
hands? With the doubt that must
exist in his mind by reason OF the
conflicting testimony presented, can
he surrender citizen Of Virginia to
the bowling mob that asks for him?
The demand made by the Govern
or OF Maryland upon the Governor
of Virginia OF course is Il foolish one,
and no better evidence of the folly
which prompted it need be presented
than the case of Marsh now being
heard in the city OF Richmond. IL
that case the counsel for Marsh say
that by virtue of the compact Of 17e;
he should have been tried in the
State of Maryland and not in Fir,
ginia, and hence tile writ of habeas
corpus under which he is brought
before the court in that city. II
Marylanders for offences committed
in Virginia should be tried in Mary
land, why is not the converse of that
proposition equally true? That
it is not so accepted and acted
upon by Marylanders furnishes an.
other proof of the unfair and unjust
methods resorted to by them to
shield transGressors from the penal
ties for offences committed by them.
The Governor of Virginia will not OF
course honor the requisition and
Marylanders do not expect him to
Go so. Il was asked for, at this time
for another purpose They want the
crabs in our waters and are daily
dcpredating upon us in that respect.
The reqliisiiion asked for they nat.
nrally infer, whether granted or not,
while pending at least, would act as
a check upon the vigilance of Capt.
Gasi<ins and others and enable them
TO plumber us with more security.
Ehe Governor will not homer the
rcGuisition but he should not stop
there. He should refuse TO grant it
il such terms that the members OF
our oyster police force may be as
sureG OF MS support in all their law
fnl acts i'll beating back those who
daily come among us to take and
carry away the property of the Com
lno1wealth