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The following charge OF Judge
Cautrill, of Frankfort, KY, to the
grand jury is perhaps the most re-
markable deliverance that has eyer
eminated from the bench.
We print it slmost...entire because
IL will be read with interest, and it
treats Of matters that are Of national
importance:
I'VE meet under peculiar and la
mentable circumstances" said the
court; "crime has run rampant, not
only in Kentucky, but throughout the
country, and to-day the hearts of the
the whole people are rent by grief and
prayers are going up all over the cOun-
try for the stricken president. 1t is
sad to contemplate such state of
affairs. 1t has always been my wish
aud my prayer that this country be
relieved OF such conditions; As to the
cause of such conditions, | cannot
conceive. but the grand and petit
j uries are more to blame than all
other causes combined.
al recognize the weakness of law
yers and juries, but there is no excuse
Cor the failure of grand and petit
Iuries. When they are assembled by
themselves free from all influences,
free To decide all cases according to
law, there can be no excusesfor turn
ing red-hsnded murdererssloose upon
the country. When they stand only
in the presence OF their God, they
have no excuse for a dereliction of
duty. As rule I would cast no re-
Fiction upon the grand or petit juries
Of this district, because they are COM
posed OF the best of men. / want TO
bear testimony to the faithfulness as a
rule 81 these jurors.
Justice often miscsrries because
ust before converting OflIthe grand
juries parties having knowledge of
crime wilfully evadeI the process of
the court.
The only way TO protect sOcie ty,"
said the court at another point, land
the children who live aster,lyou, is TO
maintain the law. This people is at the
present time bowed down with un-
speskable grief, the head Of the nation
has been ruthlessly shot down. No
fsir-minded mau OF any political faith
can but wish that the day shall speed
sly come when such acts shall be im-
possible.
THE GOEBEL TRAGEDY.
1T has not been two years since
this grand old commonwealth was
shaken from center 10 circumference
10y n similar tragedy. On Capital
SDusre one of the leading citizens of
your state was shot down in a similar
manner.
lit l. deplorable and humiliating TO
have 20 admit that there were certain
elements in Kentucky that, if they
did not openly approve the act, they
were willing TO excuse il and shield
the criminal, whoever he might be.
Continuing, Judge Cantrill said:
AT that time there was no public
meeting upon the part of the
people who are proposing to de-
nOunce anarchy and snsrchism. The
pulpits a. a rule set up no supplication
e. the Throne Of Grace that the life OF
William Goebel be spared to this
commonwealth. If there were any
expressions or indication as to the
feelings of the pulpit the same pulpits
an Kentucky who are now fulminat-
ing their thunder bolts against anar-
chists and anarchism, which is all
right and which i spprove) at that