Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-03
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STATE NEWS.

The New York Legislature nas le
galized the investing OF savings
banks of that States funds 10 pur-
chasing Louisiana State bonds. Coy
ernor Hall requested this willis or
his trip to New York Coz the DUR
pose Of selling the bonds.
Facts lately uncovered in The Of.
fort to produce evidence that would
dlsprove the now probably proved
contention Of Walters that the child
is not the Dunbars, and UPON which
%unrebutted defense Governor Brewer
justifiably bases is right to .efuse
extradition until more conclusive re-
futing evidence is brought forward, s
connect Walters With. the possession
OF three boys, ant with completely in
the killing Of 6 negro about ten years
ago near Sandersville. Miss. The hi.
name attitude % Governor Brewer in
this very trying case is indeed indi-
cative Of an altman Governor OF
Mississippi. That Tie guiltless should
be punished by revengueful mobs is
at least eXplainable, but the hasten
Ing Of q man out OF q State where JUS.
tice is more possible, because of the
foreienness of the victim, into the
home State of the child, where an
aroused people may in .heis madness
punish the innocent, because mac
men must have sacrifices, would in.
deed be most unholy, anG the Cover
nor who would do othex than Gov
efIlor Brewer did would be morally,
if not legally. held for The murder OF
such an accused man OF woman. The
method Of T%ailroading men to prison,
or ever to the gallows, who nave
neither friends nor money, is an en-
blem of q barbarous people, and in
civilized States such methods should
not exist. There is g cowardice at
tached to This kind of manhandling.
The defenselessness OF the prisoner is
alone the reason for this oppression.
Governor Brewer deserves praise fo-
his protection OF the rights OF this
one individual. The disclosed facts
are not all against the kidnapper. Had
the mar besa sent Immediately to
Opelousas without opportunity Tor de.
tense being given, who knows but that
his body may have hung in hor-
ror from a telegraph post or pierced
with holes and lay in the fields the
food Of carrion crows and buzzards.
And what q feeling would have hung
over that city, il in The future, they
should learn their mistake and know
that they had killed an innocent man.N
Nature haunts the .eyildoex with the
sight Of the evil he has done.
A break In the levee in front OF
the Travellt plantation, eight miles be.
low Melville. La, on the Atchafalaya
River, occurred. flooding portions OF
Pointe Coupee and Iberville Parishes.
Through investigation it has been
found that the child now in the pos
session OF che Dunbars, while it may
not be theirs, is not also the child OF
Julia Anderson, whom Walters claim
ed was the mother. The anderson
woman makes s. gworr statement,
claiming her child was unsecured, that
her child borne no marks.
The oil steamer Gutthei! sunk along
SIDE OF the Standard Oil Company's
docks at Baton Rouge. She was from
Tampico. Mexico, recently, with 26,OOG
barrels Of crude oil. She was YET un-
loaded. The oil went dowr with the
sunken steamer.
The levee at the lower END OF Lake
John, near Gibson's landing. fiji
seen miles below Waterproof, La.
broke, and water is pouring through
O 3,000-foot break and flooding the
swamps. The ievee at the
point where it broke was considered
and sc called in The report Of
q recent inspection.
Last week the New Orleans Custom
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