Morris tribune., 1907-07-27

mayor Whlioch. in the CONNER
cial and social life Of the Golden Rule
City. In infiictfng punishment Judge
Morris said that the "only effective
remedy which society could employ to
ital was vigorous enforcement Of the
laws to the letter"
Mayor Whitlock, commenting on this
sentence, said it was a hopeful sign Of
higher conception of public duty and
determination on the part of the peo-
pie to hold men high and low equal
before the laws. 1t also showed
more delicate moral sense existing to-
day which recognizes the respectable
and facile crimes of cunning to be
quite as odious as the vulgar and
clumsy crimes of force and violence
and a finer conscience which holds it
to be quite as bad to assault many
helpless men with statute in order
to take away their liberty as to fell
o0a man with slung shot for the same
p7:'Dose.
O. Trust Denies Conspiracy.
The Standard Oil company has en-
tered a general denial to the charges Of
conspiracy, sitting competition and &C
cepting rebates preferred by the feder-
al department of justice In st. Louis
last November. The contention is
made that operations prior to 1899,
when the parent company Of New Jer-
se.T was formed, should not be made
the subject of examination. Specific
denial is made, however, that the COM
pany in 1876 had special rates from
the Erie and New York Central and
that monopoly of pipe lines from
western Pennsylvania enabled it to fix
rates of transportation ON the rail-
road.
Unwritten Law In Maryland.
The acquittal Of Mrs. Mary e. Bowie
and her son, Henry, at La Plata, Md,
of all blame for the admitted murder
of Hubert Posey, the man who had
refused to marry the daughter Of Mrs
Bowie after seducing her, was another
victory for the ''unwritten law" The
verdict was rendered by the jury in
fi-~e minutes after getting the case.
TIE counsel for the defense, Repre-
sentative Mudd, frankly appealed to
t!p higher law, arguing for "the SUI
premacy Of the law indelibly written
on the quick beating heart over the
cold type of the statute book" This
he based upon the fact that the family
is the nucleus and nursery of the COM
moawealth" and that the protection of
the family and the honor of the wo-
men are "a natural and essential fea-
ture of the law In this land"
Ready For the Summing Up.
Sooner than was expected, the state
closed it's rebuttal in the trial Of w. D.
Haywood at Boise for the murder of
Steunenberg and the defense rested,
thus clearing the way for the summing
ur. The state had endeavored to dis
pose Of the alleged personal motive of
Orcill"d against Steunenberg by citing
records to prove that the assassin had
sold his interest in the Hercules mine
before the labor troubles in Idaho DR..
Magee. w. F. Davis and other wit
nesses for the defense were contradict
ed, and charges of perjury were pre-
ferred against Magee. The question Of
Orchards sanity was raised by the
statement that his grandfather was in
sane and given to telling tales Of i'm
aginary crimes.
The MasiII Poisoning Case.
Frederick H. Magill, cashier Of the
Warner National bank of Clinton, Ill,
and his young second wife, Fay Ma.
gill. have given themselves up to the
authorities at San Diego. CAL. volun-
tarilv returning to Illinois to face the
chal.e@ of having poisoned the first
Mrs Iagill last May. The Magill
family are wealthy and expect to make
desperate fight, believing in the
mans innocence, although the state
As said to be In the possession of proof