Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-06
RETRIBUTI0N.

Justice is slow, but sure. This trpth II
again illustrated IN the fate Of many OF
the men who were responsible for the
disgrace and torture OF Captain prey-
fis, Vance Thompson, IN a contrlbu-
| ton TO the Success Magazine gives
some OF the gruesome facts. II Will be
| remembered that Lenercier- Picard,
| Henry and Felix Faure We're cut off
from the land OF the living by Jlntimely
deaths. But the lisa OF such departures
il long one, Captain Attel, who
claimed to have heard Dreyfus avow
his guilt to I4cbrun- Renault tbe day OF
his degradation, was found dead" In
q railway train. his corpse blue and al
ready oh the way TO decompos iticn.
though his Journey had lasted but an
hour. This pretended confession, which
Drcyfus never made, d'Attel conhded
to his friend. Chaulin-Serviniere \
member of the Chamber of Deputies;
now the deputy took train one day 10
visit his home; an hour later he was
found dead" on the railway tracks
between two stations. And Rocher of
the prison guards, who also claimed to
have heard Dreyius Ray: Il am guilty,
but am not tho only one!" died, and
to this day no one knows where or Row.
The project Barretne was summoned to
Paris by his government chief; he was
found dead" In his compartment when
the train arrived at the Care ST. la
care Laurenceau, project OF the
North. was called to Paris to give evil
dence regarding the spy system on the
German frontier; there was no accident
on the journey. the next day he was
found dead" in his room at the Hotel
Terminus Lorimier, one of Henry's
most tireless agents OF forgery and
crime, was found dead"--hanged in
lonely barn; another Guenee, was
found dead" ON the floor OF his room in
Paris, Then there was Munier; his
part In the conspiracy had been 10 falsi-
fy the meaning OF a cryptic telegram
sent By Panizzardt TO the italian gov
ernment. so that 1t affirmed the guilt Of
Dreytus; and MunIer was found dead"
in a railway train.
A similar fate has oVertaken many
of those who were prominent in the
acts Of violence by which the Latter
day Saints In the carly days OF The
Church We're slain or driven into exile.
According to some notes on the subject
contained in the Historical Record,
published by Andrew Jensen, Dennison.
a doctor who assisted to mob the
Prophet Joseph in Hiram, Ohio. in 1882
died IN the penitentiary and Head, an
other of the aSsassins OF the Prophet
ment OF conscience ever Afterwards.
He frequently declared that he saw the
two martyrs before him. or tho par
Elephants in the massacre at Haun's
mill II is known that many led a life OF
misery. Some died In disgrace and
shame. Some We're smitten with terri
bic diseases and others were assassin
sted The Colonel who commanded
he mob at the massacre was shot in
the street one evening. He died the
next day In great agony. Another lead
or of that mob probably drank himself
TO death. His aged mother also be-
came a drunkard and died in AFFECT
poverty
History, we think, conveys the lesson
to every thoughtful observer OF events.
that rotributiou Is sure to overtalse
evil doers, 1t is true that divine justice
often postpones to eternity the anal set
tlement of human accounts. but 1t is
equally true that retribution sometimes
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