The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-21

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stretching $40 out so as to cover
more territory that the average man
who is not policeman, with $170
can do.
MURDERER LANGDON's CASE.
In watching the Langdon murder
case it is not hard for the average Sc
attic man to see that it is taking
practically the same course as did
the Paul Page murder case in this
city some years ago. 1t will be re-
membered that Page murdered
Harry Frazier in a saloon brawl, and
in order to prevent the conviction of
Page, it is said, and said on very
good authority, that thousands Of
dollars were expended among the po-
lice, the sheriff's Office and daily
papers, to, if possible, create senti-
ment in favor Of Page and adverse
to Frazier, which was done, and he
was subsequently acquitted. Now
the daily papers are silent about the
murder Of Shank, and, if his name is
mentioned at all, it is to the effect
that he was quarrelsome man, and
not congeanial even in a gambling
room. On the other hand, Langdon
is being held up as an ideal man, his
word for truth and veracity being
unqueStioned, his good deeds ~
from Chicago to Seattle being print
ed in glaring headlines every night
and morning. The city and county
officials, if they have not been fixed,
such certainly would so appear, for
they have nothing commendatory to
say1of Shank. James Hamilton Lew
is has his $4,000 fee as Langdon's
attorney, Langdon himself is out of
Jail on nominal bail furnished by
the rival gambling houses to that
run by Edward Shank, and, in fact,
everything that would lead to the
acqmttal of Langdon for the foul
and cold.blooded murder he is guilty
of has been well planned and laid up
to date, and all working like charm.
Most people feel and believe that
cowardly murder was committed
when Langdon shot Shank down on
being refused the loan of $50, and
they further believe that the muir
derer should at least get a life SEN
tence in the state peniten-
tiary for his criminal act. Hang
ing is none too good for this man,
but under the circumstances it is
very doubtful whether such could
ever be brought about, and he is. GER
tainly deserving a life sentence.
Under the influence of large sums of
money, however, and under the in
tluence of the ''wide open policy"
which is being run in this city, it is
very apparent that he never will be
convicted for what he deserves, if
convicted at all. It is to the shame
and disgrace of the civilization of
American citizens that such can be
perpretrated with impunity. From
such state of affairs it would appear
that the female cowboy preacher was
not very far off in declaring that
the police Of this city winked at
crime. They not only wink at crime,
but they, if reports be true, have no
objection to aiding and abetting the
committing of crime if the criminal
will only fix the force. Here, evi-
IDENTIFY, are lot Of men who get
their price to see and yet do not see
criminal acts. When a DO
lice detective declares on the
streets that there is no evi-
dence against a man who has will
fully shot down a fellowman and
that the man who did the shooting
should not even be tried in the supe-
rior court for lack of evidence it
looks a good deal as though that that
detective had been fixed.
WANT GAS AT ANY PRICE.
People living in the gas limit of
this city are 'Ehollering" for dollar
gas-and imagine that they are doing
the proper thing; but the persons
living out of the gas limit are suffer
ing for the use of gas and feel that
those living in the gas limit are do
ing them a great injustice when they
so complicate the gas company's af-