The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-26

Mayor Whitlock. in the CONNER
cial and social life of the Golden Rule
City. In inficting punishment Judge
Morris said that the "Only effective
remedy which society could employ to
prevent unlawful combinations of cap
tal was a vigorous enforcement of the
laws to the letter.
Mayor Whtlock, commenting on this
sentence, said it was hopeful sign of
higher conception of public duty and
a determination on the part of the peo-
pie to hold men high and low equal
before the laws. 1t also showed Il
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 q 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
one man with slunG shot for the same
purpose.
Oil Trust Denies Conspiracy.
The Standard Oil company has en-
tered q general denial to the charges of
conspiracy, sitting competition and ac-
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-
sey 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 a monopoly of pipe lines from
western Pennsylvania enabled 1t 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
The counsel for the defense, Repre-
sentative Mudd, frankly appealed to
the higher law, arguing for "the su.
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
Il hot Ia Nf
the family and the honor of the wo-
men are "a natural and essential fea-
ture of the law I'm this land"
Ready. For the Summing Up.
Sooner than was expected, the state
closed Its 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
up. The state had endeavored to dis
pose Of the alleged personal motive of
Orchard 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. Il. Davis and other wit
nesses for the defense were contradict
ed, and charges of perjury We're 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 MasilI Poisoning Case.
Frederick II. 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, Call. volun-
tarily returning to Illinois to face the
charge of having poisoned the first
Mrs. Magill last May. The Magill
family are wealthy and expect to make
desperate fight believing In the
mans innocence, although the state
Is said to be In the possession of proof