The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-12-16
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The killing Of young hr9 Smith
at Jesup on satardz another of
those tragedies tha I6ck human ma
tnsf and m Av a thing 70 toy
with. The k OF a human being,
in any othe hion other than that
prescfinxs lie law r. any awful.
thingl Sing that 5orders onto bar
bar Hbgass Ii, When a peace Off
esa 5shersfi charged with the en-
forcemenit Of the law. man who
above all others. is expected to live
up TO the letter Of the law. when he
'invades the camp of crime and shoots
10 Kill, then in the name Of justice
what is to be expected Of the citizen
in the private walks Of life?
According 80 the testimony adduced
at the coroner's trial OF the case,
Lyons. the sheriff. was The aggression,
the coward and the cur. Young Smith
had vouchsafed declaration to pro-
tect good woman's name. He had
resented an insult to a wife and a
mother. and for that deed HI was con-
demned to death, by a peace officer
The News calls upon Judge Parker
of the superior court Of the Bruins
wick circuit, to call an extra session
Of the grand jury o. Wayne county TO
look to this case and bring in an in
dictmen.; ii calls upon him to call a
special session OF the superior court
Of Wayne county, give these murderers
speedy trial, ana on conviction, it
begs him 10 place the sentence upon
them at once
| This IS a heInous offense. The Off
GERS Of the law, forgetting their COM
mission. have committed a great crime
against the peace, against the order,
and against the dignity Of the state
and an outraged people are crying for
swift and certain vengeance
II the law must be made thing
to toss about as a football, then. WEB
and good, but If 1t is to be respected
| and honored, then It must be yindi
Gated j.. 1t must raise its voice againsf
1.-THE effort TO strange It. it must refuse
10 render succor TO those who violate
ii while marching through the world
lin its embellishments. Its only an,
bition ought to be to hold even the
scales of Justice and mete out the pu@-
est article of that kind it can find.
Crime is 100 much in the increase
to subserve the best interest OF a
great people Criminal aud civil law
is being outraged. aff over the country
and the man with q gam and the man
with a bribe arc rapidly growing to he
kindred spirits.
Its time 70 call halt It's time to
show 10 the world that CRIME cannot
reign supreme and that law and order
must prevail, In the SPECIFIC case, the
illllfng 81 Young Smith, it seems that
very brave and noble young man
surrendered his life 10 the assassin's
gun, forsooth because he protected
the virtue antA the reputation of a
good woman He had not been salts
fled 10 resi- under certain conditions
existing. where the murderer had
/ heaped insults and injury upon a
mother Of children. and he volun-
teered his service in her honor
For that deed he was condemned to
death by coward compact, made be-
tween henchmen on the one side and
men of official position on the other
| What travesty
We hope that Judge Parker will see
Ethis critical situation and seeing il
Will bring all of the judiciary machin-
| cry at his command into play in or
der to. see that justice is done to th'
| living and the dead in this case
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