The sun., 1901-09-08
BAN ON THB POSBURGHS.
PITTSFTELD rs STILL TRYING
THAT UNFORTUNATE FAMILY
And umaiiy P,nds Them Guiity. Rsst and
Branch. q Murder o. Any Osd Thing
-Curssus Instance sf Msssachsnetts
Feesing Against Folks Prom Elsewhere.

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70 sill trying the Fosbureh case. notwith-
sanding Judge Stevens pitched IL neck
and crop out Of court sonething over a
month ago. Appeals from Judge Stevens's .
decision have been taken to all the pisces
where Pittsheldian men and women con-
gresste. and In almost every instance the
Judge has been overrlled. new trial
granted and young fosburgh convicted
and sentenced 20 severe pains and penal
.ie. Indo.d ,ha senteno, does not stop
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Win youns rooouisn' .ue s' :,
inc entire fosourgh fanny '"o' ma"
branch, Is brought In guilty and CON
dsmn~d 10 the axtreme penalty Of the law
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INC io..ns"' ionv"s W, 49,
Fosburgh. big and little. was thus inofaIy
iynched at least three times n day. but the
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10 oeep' suien gov ehs' o'iy p'aNs'
up when slight breeze OF discussion is
stirred That happens when some stranger
Inadvertently suee.a,. the bare possibility
,h., ,ht. ,.a,s,J ansc,io,.,. family NOS
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ably did not after Sunnay evening sPeh'
In reading and singing sacred songs get
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fitt held you have got an argument on
your hands In short order
And vet the remarkable action Of Judge
s,ev,n. IN actually Kicking tho cas-. ou,
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Was eNeh iui eusp4hoh i"r - uin"'
Immediately following tho inst stunning
confusion Of the blow. that Judge Stevens
himeeif might be shaky in his Massachusetts,
ancestry; that this extraordinary action
on his part VAS the result of an stavic taint
IN his blood that might involve ancestral
Sonnection With some unrpeaksble Peoria.
T sven Chicago itself for all anybody knew
But not shadow Of proof Of anything OF
this kind could be produced. The Pitts-
held Genealogical Board OF Elderly Hens
of Both SEXES, after minute research. was
forced TO report that their investigation
entirely exonerated Judge Stevens from
any blood connections In the past with
persons of questionable birthplace, and
that, In fact, by collateral branches he
touched the very Mayfowor itself II is
true there was a shady story about him 10
the effect that once In his reckless days
he bad travelled, but even az regards tins
The board felt In justice bound 10 report
that there were extenuating circumstance
6ull Judge Stevens had ANONYMOUSLY
subsidized a Case prepared by a Mas~achu-
sstts Chief of Police, confirmed by an in
dictment from a Massachusetts, Grand
Jury and conducted by q Massachusetts,
District Attorney-a case. too, In which
the accused persons were confessedly Of
origin In some dark hinterland beyond
the Hudson, and who had invaded Massa-
ohuse.ts and disturbed the peace of Pitts
f3eld itself by having burglars and Rctting
murdered Al dead OF night All this rc-
uuircd eyplaration. and another thing
that the evidence which the Chief OF Polica
collected 10 prove that burglars did not
and that her own brother did shoot Mis-
Nav Foeb,rgh was Of n character TO con-
vino, any per.on. not gifted with the Pitts
6eld noint on yiew that the brother did
noi ana thaf bur,lar- Ala do the shootins.
Tbis IN i,self x,ss entiraly irreoular and
needed elnc,dation. The action OF Judge
Stsv.o. 10 many pittsaeldIans ever will
remain n rpystery. No sxti-factory key
,o his r,nd,,ct has he,n produced But
Tor ~. ji,,ie .crcntrici,y ~ the eyideoce
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ana seyerai IN then .s remarkable "a the
ey.,r,sno. it.eH Sne.Lipy of this A GENTLE
hs h.d h.rd a.. s,.,.ment an erplana-
,ion ~ ,he t.iiur. ~ the cyidenoe which
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49, .tr,rIy h'ca,,Ss ,h. chief OF
rsoi,s.. 80 ~. ~ .,on,l.nen Who con-
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raSss,.h ~ 49, ua said he Relieved
a., Tnsh,,rsb bed induced them 10 'let up'
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