The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-22

somewhat antique type type of which the American America But there is new type of English gen. to speak, with American gentlemen Mr. Ilkley Tray ers however, belonged to that old school which, in its remaining su.vivors all too many: sl look pat
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 This was all that MT Chadwick could be prevailed lowed by more elections from the court-roomL
 No one with heart could fail to sympathize with s sTs hi se f he pleading. but because the men who made them well known to be his personal friends In fact. there was only of the twelve with whom he had not played golf.
 It was certainly an awkward position to be in but plucky fighter, and with all fighters, the he was cornered the better he fought His plea for the of the most striking examples of his forensic eo- quence, an eloquence all the powerful because was entirely free from those rhetorical flowers with dresses Anyone interested read 1t at length in the newspapers of the day. Here 1t is only necessary si,y simple it was forcible. There need to prove the charges against the prisoners they to glory in their crimes relying no doubt on their wealth and position to protect them This growing insosnee and defiance of rich men towards the law American liberty Unhapply, certain famous trials had given the rich good to think that bsn or h sue no parallel since the days of decadent Rome with case not merely of one rich man, but twelve rich men conspiring together to murder; their victims. with enc or two exceptions. being poor men, That here d.nce could doubt Why in every had the mur dered been found with the mysterious letters. those letters meant, he the dstrict-attorney must confess ignorance. Their precise meaning could be of no T 4,3 & Thr practical I al, carried out with diaboliea punctuaity. Murder is always murder There could be excuse for it, no Jean de Forest and MT. Chadwick had made melo- dramatic declarations of what they seemed to con slider justihabe motive-but if such pleas were to be taken seriously, no men would be safe; One might s fs en. o nr in man for the bad it o 0 sand f0I pseu.ritie sw Wa, sw It % had 5een evolved through the isborins ages by the agony and ten of it,
 Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong
 And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresh
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 It had taken centuries of human travail to write the law. The law at last written tables of mperishable stone Let America beware lest it rashly break in pieces those sacred tables of the law-one commandment of which is Thoa skels do 50 murder. Perhaps the law was imperfect. It was still being written in the slow handwriting of Time But written was however mperfectly, and let those who talk of an unwrtten law remember that that the law that prevailed when the prmeva dragons each other in their slime and aboriginal wooed his