The daily sentinel., 1912-02-06
HARTNETT'S CASE
OUGHT To Be PROBED
lContinued from Page 1.l

>
not having lights, and for the fool
hardness of the driver. He fined
them So and let them 20. Col,rin
at that time was sober, or at least
showed no effects Of liquor, accord
ing to Donovan kalisch, according
to the sane person, was perfectly So
Der. And, II is said that Edgar, poor
boy. was trying to make Milo Brown
and Herman Hoffman behave. What
made Marshal Donovan resign2 Was
he onscience-stricken2 1t also seems
odd that person sober then and
without more liquor could become as
Supplied later ON as George claims
Milo Brown claims that his mind
was a complete blank after this Pali-
sade incident, yet George says that
he returned to Clifton only on ac-
count of Milo's and Edgar's plea to
find an imaginary article dropped by
them. believe they wished to re-
turn to find Edgar's hat, which was
lost near Palisade.
1t is queer, too. that Brown. with
his mind a complete blank after the
arrest, as he says. should have rec
/ ognized Herman Kalisch and cried
out, Take us home, Herman" More
than likely a boy, under the same
| condition as he was, would have call
| ed on his friend. George Coltrin. be-
cause Milo had been with George
since the afternoon Under no con-
siderations whatever would or could a
sane person believe that Brown at
tempted to help Hartnett in the man
ner described in Tuesdays Sentinel.
Brown must certainly have been "A
Hercules TO have torn Hartnett' S
heavy overcoat in an effort to save
him.
George Coltrin's story of telling a
! rancher to phone to the garage for
another car, would not stand the
/ glare of daylight, Il is impossible.
/ Does any one for a moment suppose
that George Coltrin. going at such a
mad rate of speed as he was. could
/ or would slow down and stop long
enough to tell a farmer about the
/ loss of his companions, and to ask
\ him to phone for aid? IL George
| did stop, don't you know that he
/ would of his own accord or upon the
/ advice of the said farmer, return and
] find his companions. He most assur-
edly would have unless he was mer-
ciless brute. Why didn't George
/ think up this story to tell on the wit
ness stand on Monday. instead of on
/ Tuesday Why didn't the farmer ma
| terialize? He surely had nothing to
lose by showing up? If he phoned
why wasn't he humane enough to stay
by the dying boy and his companions
until aid arrived?
The garage received call; at least
kalisch testified so. Who the person
was that called, should have been
! found out, This mysterious brute
should be searched out There Is
something rotten here. The whole
thing is a crime calling to Heaven for
vengeance. Do not misunderstood
me. | do not mean that the boys
downright, deliberately killed Ed gar,
and that by confessing. they would
/ bring him back to life. No, | don't
mean that. But | believed that
George Coltrin. Milo Brown, Her.
man kallsch and Herman Hoffman
/ know far more than they told on
the witness stand. or wish to tell
] Edgar is gone forever. Nothing
can bring him back. But ! truly be-
lieve that if his lips now silent in
/ death could only speak they would
/ tell a tale. which would not cor
roborate with one told by his social
| ed friends
The Sentinel is the authority for
| the statement that both Coltrin and
/ Brown are shocked beyond measure
Mt the tragic result of their ride and
are heartbroken over the death of
I hai rOspnunfnn hrA1-n.