The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-08

and Ruth Nollard reels and clasps
her hand to her side and would have
fallen but for the supporting arms
of her sister.
Lovingly she is eased down to the
sidewalk and her life blood ebbs
away on the cold rocks while con.
veyance is being secured. Her on.
ly words were that Bud Taylor could
not have done the deed. She soor
became unconscious and died. Two
of the three bullets fired had passed
through her body either one Of
which would have been fatal.
Thus the cowardly assassin accom-
plished his hellish purpose and the
lfeless form of Ruth Nollard was
borne back to that home which, less
than an hour before she had left in
the full flush of young womanhood
and joyous life, and a pail of sorrow
and gloom has settled over the house
hold and the joyous laugh of Ruth
Nollard is hushed and her bounding
step is stilled forever.
Her cowardly assassin, after the
deed was done, dropping his gun and
hat, rushed into an adjoining room
and crawled under a bed hoping to
elude the eyes of searching officers
who were speedily on hand. He
was soon discovered, however, and
hustled to jail. He was not taken
to the Jail however, by the officers
without great deal of difficulty.
He was surrounded by a body of
excited, incensed men who were de-
termined to wreak vengeance then
and there. Only the determined eff
forts of number of policemen who
welded their clubs and revolvers
with will prevented the crowd from
lynching the murderer right there.
1t is probably better as it is. Mis-
souri, has hanging law and does
not seem 10th to use it, and this
young villain will surely have just
ice meted out to him.
The few months that must elapse
before the relentless moose will tight
en- around his neck will not be months
of contentment and unalloyed joy.
He will have time to reflect on the
mistakes of life. And as the vision
of himself dangling at the end of a
rope between heaven and earth must
constantly be before him in his wax
ing hours and in his dreams, all the
happiness he can get out of the
short span yet remaining to him
should not be envied.
His relatives are to be pitied, but
that pity should lave no tendency to
stay the hand of justice. He had
no pity for Ruth Nollard or those
who held her dear.
The laws delays and technicalities
should be set aside in this case when
all the.elements of a cold, calculated,
premeditated murder are present,
and nothing lacking. The rights of
the living demand that this race of
heartless depraved murderers should
be wiped out and no mawkish SEN
should save them or nit
igate the severity of their punish
ment.
When the Free Traders talk about
the advantages which would accrue
to the people of the country through
the adoption of the
Ability policy of Free-Trade
to Buy. because of the oppor-
tunity which would
thus be afforded to them to buy in
the cheapest" market, they over
look the fact that before a country
is able to buy anything it must have
something to sell. If, for any reas-
on, the American people should be
deprived of the opportunity to sell
their own products, manifestly they
would thereby be prevented from OBJ
tanning the wherewithal to buy in
any market, whether cheap or dear.
This principle of trade has been am
ply illustrated whenever we have ex-
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