Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-16
JUSTICE OUTRAGED.
ABETToRS SEEK TO COVER UP
HlDEOUS SKELETON.
GrlstIy Civilization Should Never Criti-
else other Anarchists-The killing of
that Washington Boy and the Punish
ment.

To show the servile iniquity Of the
public press under the control Of the
plutocratic press association we have
another sublimely infamous illustra-
ton.
A woman-a young, beautiful.
wealthy woman-murders a colored
boy in cold blood and deliberate man.
ner. She fires twice to do the deed.
The Judge and court conspire and
suborn for her escape. A time is pri-
vately set for the court to adjudicate
one whole half hour before the known
time Of opening-think of it! A half
hour is time enough to go through the
farce.
And then the testimony shows the
facts-the Amazon confesses to "homi-
eide" the Judge sweetly flatters the
millionaire's daughter-as published
last week-and $5OO-a fine-ye Gods.
think Of it's paid for murder.
Now look at the old party press.
either silent or palliating. There is
not a finer-grained gentleman on tho
republican press of New York than Mr..
Ayers, of the Chronicle. Note tho
heartless remark with which that
journal losses aside this grievous wrong
against humanity-as flippant as tho
silken-vestured female. It coldly
speaks of the penalty for accidentally
shooting colored boy.
Accidental" when it took two shots
to kill, after she had brought weapon
for the purpose. A life for a pear,
stolen perchance, in a land where re-
publican and democratic thieves of mill
lions go unpublished. The moral is
that society" doesn't recognize that
that little Sunday-school colored boy
had any rights which white judge was
bound to respect.
The white tigress had to plug him
twice TO make the accident" more en-
phatic. The New York People" says:
Equality before the law" as prac-
ticed in the capitalist state, has been
again graphically illustrated. Eliza
beth Flagler, the daughter of one of our
legalized cut-throats, Gen. Flagler shot
twice and killed boy, Ernest Green,
in Washington. Thereupon the judge.
and the whole machinery of the court,
sets about to free the culprit. Already
a coroner's jury had tried to "vindi1ate"
her. The popular cutlery that followed
caused her to be indicted. But this
was only a pretense. as subsequent
events showed. Last Tuesday, at an
unusually early hour, the court net,
evidently by appointment with the cul-
prit. She pleaded guilty to involun-
tary homicide, and was forthwith sem
fenced to three hours imprisonment
and a fine of $500. The fine, the report
says, was paid on the spot in ten crisp
$50 bills, and the Convict" rode off to
Jail, where she remained three hours in
pleasant chat with friend and the ma
iron. and then rode home to celebrate
her "triumph"-the triumph of the
vicious class that dominates this ma
ton.
While Miss Flagler was lunching, the
distressed mother of the boy was seen
and asked what she thought of the
"trial?" She answered, sobbing:
ut isn't for poor colored folks to say
what should be done. only know
that loved my boy, and that he is gone.
II he had been bad boy l would raise
my hands and say, it was better thus.
But he was a good boy, and looked for
ward to his future with great pride and
Joy. Then came this woman's shot.
And am told that she is free-that she
paid the law some money and sat in the
Jail parlor. East and West.
Money Question.