The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-05-30

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SKA murder - BsHnsngioa cooaiy fn
ihs pas larcf years.
What are se coaaing io' whers ARE
tts oa.neu II the lac who are sup-
ts,ssa "a see lksi ibs laws are erscui'
sssi
~ these sir msrdsrs committed wilh.
ia sneh q bglsf spare ~ nme The per
Feitaior q oas osly has been irisd and
eanyleissi.
These enmss have nod been confined
h any one iocaliy. every section d
ihs county has hsen the scene: two IN
North Bennington. aud one each Ia
MsBrhester. winhAll. RaPeri and
pounhl. h the Pownal ease We be
lisvr shsi al was cone ,hsi could he
done 10 DAD the guilty party.
10 the face u ssst ~ slrpeloas deed
A. this las, il becomes haIA iDr a'eil
70 remember tbe requirements ~ good
cihnenship and await the SLOW process
al The law.
How long will We stand for ihis
spAtby'
Wake up, Manchester Journal.
Ths Joarnel i unduly exercised and
allows iis heat TO rat sway with It's
Judgment or il would never have made
such an unwarrhnted attack on The
Bennington county officers Of the Law
who are and IN the main have been ~
faithful aud bard working public ser.
wants as any in the state. In fact the
Banner is inclined 30 believe that Ben
ningt0n county has had in Henry ).
Wilson Of Arlington The best county
sheriff in the state. even tsiosss ggst
Of the Journals list Of crime. occurred
while Mr.. Wilson was in Office. But
let US look more closely at the Jour
uai's statement.
The six fatalities, which the Journal
calls murders, were thoss Resulting in
the death OF Fred johnson Of Winhsll,
Fred Bartlett Of North Bennington,
Arthur II. Ross Of anywhere at Ru.
pert, William Flynn at Manchester
Center, Thomas Mcclure at pownal,
and Ethel Msbnn at North Benning'
ton. In the strict seass o, the word
not one half Of these were murders,
The death OF Fred Bartlett was the
result OF drunken frolic outside the
county and state. Ii was probably
merely accidental that the body was
returned TO North Bennington. The
officers who investigated the case have
reason 10 believe that the crime was
one Of the crop for which a tough sa-
loon at Walloomsac Is largely repson-
sible. Bennington county Is IN no way
chargeable with the crime or RESPONSE
bic for It's non detection.
ID is absurd TO refer 10 the Flynn
ease as murder. The chances are
that Flynn merely got drunk and fell
on a rock with fatal effects. Only the
Journal and few Others Of strong i'm.
agination can see a murder in il.
The Rupert case was one of man.
slaughter when one thief accidentally
shot another when their gang was be-
ing broken up by the officers. Doc"
Reed, who is supposed 10 have done
the shooting, got away, bat the gang
was dispersed. two were sent to prison
and the state escaped the expense of
trying Reed and boarding him few
years. Surely justice was at least par
TALLY done in this case.
The johnson murder was promptly
taken care Of by the authorities and
the murderer sentenced to prison for
life.
Even the journal admits that all
that was possible was done in the Me-
CURE case in Pownal, This was a
case. too, in which neither the victim
nor his assailants lived in the county
or state. The crime was doubtless COM
mitted by foreign laborers employed
in railroad building and the Benning-
ton county officials found as have
those of other places that perpetrators
of this class are seldom detected.
The sixth and last on the list Is the
Mahan case in which the prompt and
active work OF the states attorney
evoked the cordial and outspoken ap.
proval Of the attorney general. There
was certainly no laxness here for the
self confessed murderer lies in his cell
waiting either the gallows or the asy-
lum.
Thus analysed the Journals six
murders figure down TO three murders
and case OF manslaughter which is
not so startling in population Of 22,-
600 in three years. Moreover in only
one case, the Mcclure murder, has the
perpetrator gotten of scot free, for
Reed who shot Ross is well known and
will be apprehended II he ever shows
up in this part Of the country, while
his pals have already been punished.
II looks to the Banner as though the
Journal is befouling is own county
without reasonable justification, and
ought to be in better business. - Daily
Banner.
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