The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-03
Woman Charq-
ed with Killing
SiiaS Lord In
Equinunk Row
Will M AXE Ef-
fort to Get Out
Of JaiI...-.Hear. j
ing THURSDAY
i'm Chambers.
Both Well.

There are no developments of any
great consequence in the cases
against Sam Reed and Leona Lord,
in Jail for killing Silas E. Lord of
Equinunk, the aged farmer Reed
attacked with a hoe on July 12.
Thursday afternoon at 2 Judge
Searle is to hear Leona Lords pc
tition for a writ of habeas corpus
that was presented last Thursday by
the woman's counsel, w. H. Lee and
Frank P. Kimble. This hearing
however, will be in chambers.
District Attorney Simons does not
like to have the newspapers print
a lot of speculation and conjecture
about the affair at Equinunk and
it's outcome. He feels, undoubted-
ly, that the more newspaper stor-
les the more difficulty about getting
a suitable jury. The lawyers for
Sam and Leona, too, do not, 1t ap-
pears, like to be questioned about
the case. They are glad that Sheriff
Braman decided soon after the ar
rival of the man and woman at the
Jail not to permit any newspaper
cameras to be pointed in their di-
rection
Reed, it is understood, is not quite
so broken down by the thought of
the tragedy as he was when, one
week ago last Sunday night, the
news of Sike Lords death was
broken to him by the sheriff. Fol
days he cried and moaned agoniz.
ingly He is calmer now. Mrs
Lord, on the other hand, is
not quite so buoyant as on the day
when, escorted by Constable James
w. Hartford and Oakley Tyner, she
passed Reeds cell door with the
words, Cheer up, Sammy; I've
come to stay with you"
Both Reed and Mrs. Lord protest
that they never meant to kill Sike;
that neither of them thought the
blows he got on the morning of July
IL could result fatally.
Both are in reasonably good
health, though the close confine
ment naturally depresses then
noticeably. The grand jury meets
Oct. 10.
There is much sympathy on the
part of his friends for MillarC
Lord, who has never been in trouble
before He is devoted to his moth
er and seems to think that in pick
ing up hoe to defend him agains
William, who had him down in the
ditch and was pounding him, she
did what any good mother would
have done for her boy.
"A man who won't defend himsel
when another man tackles him,
Millard has frequently said, lis NJ
citizen at all, to my thinking"
He has a wife and two childreI
and has been married eight years
He is an industrious fellow of abou
80 and owns a home in Equinunk
On What Charge Can They B'
Tried?
The following is a disinteresteC
lawyers opinion of the nature of thu
charge against Sam and Leona:
The recent homicide at Equinunl
has naturally given rise to mucl
discussion respecting the degree o
the crime in law, and the guilt o
the parties concerned in the acts o
violence that led to death.
At common law, murder, as de
fined by Sir Edward Coke, wa
when a person of sound memor,
and discretion unlawfully killetl
any reasonable creature in being, an
under the Kings peace, with malic
aforethought, either express or i'm
piled"
There were no degrees OF muI
der; but lower degree of homicid
was manslaughter, which is define
by Blackstone as "the unlawful kill
ing of another without malice, e1
press or implied; which may be eth
er voluntarily, upon a sudden heat
or involuntarily, but in the commits
sion of some unlawful act" Bot
murder and manslaughter were pun
ishable with death.
This was the law in Pennsylvani
until April 22, 1894, when it was en-
acted by the legislature that "a
murder which shall be perpetrate
INAa