The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-16
A SOCKDOLAGER FOR NIGHT
RIDING.

The jurors who fixed the RESPONSE
bility for the whipping of Mr.. Hollo-
We'll where il belonged and found
judgment for $4,000 in favor of the
plaintiff struck a smashing blow at the
pastime known as might riding,
says the Courier Journal. Judge Ev-
ans is to be congratulated upon his
conduct of the case. the JURORS are to
be congratulated upon having done
their duty without fear or favor and
the plaintiff Is to DE congratulated
upon having adopted the proper means
for evening scores with his unneigh-
borly neighbors, the unheroic heroes
of a midnight frolic in Caldwell conn
ty and midday fiasco in McCracken.
The alibi testimony submitted TO es-
tablish the innocence of twenty-eight
defendants was, as total, manifestly
a manufactured product. Had there,
been a few honest alibis among the
twenty-eight set up they would have
suffered. like dog Tray. from the CON-
pany in which they were found.
The alibi. which Judge Evans, in
his Instructions, characterized as 'the
most satisfactory defense and the
easiest fabricated" is the eyer-pres-
help-in-time-trouble TO the noun
tain feudst. whose methods are no
less cowardly and whose ethics are the
same as those of his cousin the night
rider. Perjury. where the reward is
present and the chance of punishment
l emOte. is a remarkably cheap COM
modify In any market The late
Judge Hargis could wind his horn at
Jackson and call 100 bully boys from
Quicksand and the Niger Branch of
Frozen who would make an alright
abb TO order las near nature as
could be made for sixpenee.' And
as long as Judge fIargis was regarded
IN the mountains as the court of first
Instance. the circuit court and the
power, as well as the grand
jury and the sheriff, there was never
a lack of alibi witnesses when a men,
Der of the clan was arralgned in court
% answer a murder charge. During
he litigation at Jackson, Cynthiana I
md Winchester which resulted large I
" from the COurier-Journal's crusade
gainst Hargisism. and which brought
bout the destruction of the power of
he murder syndicate at jackson, sell
rg perjury in court and suborning
jerjury out of court became unprofit-
lble and unpopular branches of in
lustry. Notwithstanding the fact that
many OF the guilty escaped and fey !
we're punished sufficiently.
The beginning of the end of night
',ding Is at hand. Considerable liti- !
cation to fix responsibility for the
.rimes committed In the tobacco dis !
riots is TO come in criminal and civil |
,ourts. and no doubt in state asd fed
.ral courts. To the end that the mills |
f the gods, which are slow enough in
my event, shall grind as rapidly as
nay be. and exceedingly fine withal, |
he authorities should, and doubtless |
will. exert every effort to bring to
roper punishment witnesses who
swear false alibis for night riders. a
lew examples of what may be done
20 men who can be procured to aid
N the manufacture of alibis would go
ar toward simplifying prosecutions
ind reducing the expenses of htiga-
ion.
The verdict at Paducah. although a
for the night riders of
Caldwell. was merely a lick and a
promise to the night riders of Ken
lucky. to put a new meaning into an
Did phrase. Persons who have con-
doing any little kindnesses
10 neighbors in the way of appearing
Is alibl witnesses regardless of the
aw and the facts, or who may be APP
preached upon such a matter. would
10 well to reflect that perjury is fell
1ny and stand from under while there
+ yet time.