East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-03

>HE jurors spent but little time in debating the guilt Rus
and they found To read that the defendant bowed
his head his hands when he heart it, and seemed dazed by
must have been unpleasant The horror ha
sands ones throat upon him. But OF pity for Hecker of
at his plight there in be He
he sowed.
preposterous defense denied any the plausible
had fallen In the Of the state and of his fellow from
whom ne now is aenated and from whom he to depart
he is guilty Of that backe and ndefensble of all crimes
premedated murder Tare the seed he chose for the
field of life and such his harvest He youth who sough
to force the world keep him ease at minimum of exerton
and who chose criminal craft TO become bootegger doe
not necessarily that will in time take human life
but does that such dsrespec for law and authority
moral as well as legal prone to engender Tar more tagran
and sinful violations than those of its inception bootegger
who has slain his pal much wolf turns another
cannot hope bring clean hands clean heart to trial
Hecker did not Bit by bit the evidence against him proved
owker The borrowed revolver the empty hop sack the
session of the dead mans point both to premedtaon
pcon of the other each armed to kill and both holding the law
light regard provided such situation murder hrves u
So damnng and complete the evidence despite the
absence of witnesses of the act itself that Heckers plea of self
who Judged him. He might well drop his head in his hands
lie was man undone by his own vciousnes and his own folly
1t were entirely possible, and permissible, to read
homiy upon this crime and it is wholly
The youths who correspond to Hecker outside OF
prison. would listen others might find but tedious bit OF
moralzng suces that consider Hecker type, ar
his plight that is not uncommon to his kind There was
sufficient evidence at the trial apart from that relating spec
cay to the crime to bery him of those dapper young
nateralss who hold in every convention and who live
as the saying has it. by their wits Their yves are NOR suonor
NAL than abnormal and their development ceases early owl
the shameful nsucency of their and their fixed belief
that trasn morals and habits worth the price of seltre
spect
The legal conflict which waged about cckcrs life would not
been complete without its touch of maudm sentiment
There always those whose consdered pity whose ready
snes await but such drama to find vent Traces Of
this maudinsm found way into print and rang the
changes quite fehgy upon the youth of the defendant the
style of his hair his surprisingly thoughtful manner IN court
and the altogether extraordinary predcament WHICH he
found himself Heckers personality not the issue at any
methe issue murder And in the light of his crime the
personality that sentiment sought bSow him clear
" fictitious
did the defendant for which society
without may be thankful He convicted
crime and cannot but surmse that if there were more
convictions there would be fewer murders After all teSe
quite convincing object leson-Portand Ore
yonan.
The proposed tariff bushel wheat will not
ep the northwest any because the price of wheat is
eguated by the export demand but Chicago spectators may
ind tariff very after tbs wheat has left the
ands of the producer.
claimed that the weather due to the fact the
ain washed all the moisture of the air. in the face of logic
that stripe the who taught his horse to eat saw
lst becomes a back number.
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would be people get to Baker for that cee
-ation if we decent road through the mountains.