The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-02
AND WE CALL THIS JUSTICE

A woman living on a rancn neal
Enaville, in Shoshone county, recent
ly shot her husbands head off. The
husband, a brutal Finlander who had
served term In the penitentiary fol
shooting the arm off Of another Fin
and shooting and killing another OF
his countrymen, had beaten his wife
almost into insensibility, had beaten
her face into ~ unrecognizable pulp,
had bitten her nose entirely off, and
when she broke away from him and
ran into room where there was a
high power loaded gun, he followed
her with a knife in his hands. She
siezed the gun and blew his head en-
tirely off when he was but few feet
from her.
The woman was arrested and thrown
into jail and the press dispatches an
nounced that "a charge of murder will
be filed against her as soon as pos
sib1e" We suppose some damphool
prosecuting attorney will want to put
the state and the county to a lot OF
expense by trying to convict this wo-
man of murder Any sane man knows
that no jury would find her guilty
but that makes no difference to the
average prosecuting attorney in a
small county. He wants to make
a record" and try cases and "get con
victions" and too often he does not
care whether the person convicted is
really guilty of moral wrong, if he
can fasten on the victim a conviction
of technical" guilt
We wonder what the attorney who
would prosecute this woman for mur-
der would have had her do. Would |
he have had her submit to being
murdered by her brute of a husband:
Then the prosecuting attorney would
have wanted to prosecute the hus-
band for murder, after the wife had
been killed. 1t appears that one of
these people had to die If the wo-
man had not killed her husband he
would have killed her Surely she
had right to protect herself and it
is better, since one must die, that it
be the brute who had already killed
'ne man and MANNED another and
was trying to murder his wife.
Duty" does not require the prose- :
,ution of this poor woman and COM
non sense and Justice would favor
pleasing her and giving her Will
,w's pension. To prosecute her 4
would be rank injustice which no
rood citizen would favor.
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hools to colleges outside of Idaho "a
an does almost any other state. 1t S5ii7
considered inadvisable to send its 83i]
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, reason why and provide the rem
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izen OF Idaho. He contributed to 86
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coterminous with the boundaries ~
idaho. 1t is a service to public
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