Evening star., 1926-08-17

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murder was a dastardly thing and
something ought to he done about it.
But he might have known if he went
after that bunch ,"
And the luncheon clubs meet and
boost Canton as an ideal manufacture
ing city. The good people gather IN
church to hear the word of the gospei.
A young county prosecutor, with MS
eyes turned toward the glories OF
some day becoming Congressman
in Washington. issued statements day
after day to feverish newspaper re-
porters and gave them new leads for
afternoon papers which amounted
only to so much black type.
New Jury Harangued.
Headlines announced with thunder
ing emphasis that a former official
of the AntiSa loon League would he
brought into the case to help the
prosecutor. A judge. conscious of the
crowded courtroom. harangued n
newly grand jury yesterday on
the points Of the law: the eight wom-
en- and seven men who compose 1t
followed his words in self-Conscious
awe as they tried to understand the
weiChty exposition of what the
statute books have to say on Grim
inal libel. freedom of the press. black
mail conspiracy, first and second de-
gree murder, the majesty of the law.
the great land we live in and the
impartiality of justice.
AS he closed his instructions "a
photographer enlisted the services of
the young prosecutor who obligingly
pulled down the shades and asked
the jury to look pleasant while the
flashlight exploded. The smoke
tra lied away on the wings of breeze,
which entered quickly-opened win
dows and f1irted with the unrespon-
sive folds of dirty American flag
draped under a picture of Abraham
Lincoln. The pOnderous machinery
of the law moved forward in Canton
Yesterday month after Mellett had
been placed in the ground.
Canton has given the country a
murder mystery. 1t is not the most
popular variety of mystery. 1t has
provided few thrills for the avid head
line reader. Cantor's murder mystery
goes deeper. 1t is more than an in
cident. 1t bears the markings of an
epoch. 1t is a sign and it points a
warning.
Mellett May Become Martyr.
Don Mellett was a victim. but he
may become a martyr. The forces
which gathered him into his death
are like poison in the veins of a
healthy man. The man knows they
are there. but disregards them. He
hopes to outgrow the ailment; he be-
leves his system will absorb the
germs.
The story of young Mellett's life
in Canton and of his death has been
unfolded by members of his craft
gathered here much in the spirit of
those who would avenge a crime
against their clan. It is the story of
a young man and brave spirit who
loved a fight and whose ideals of the
profession he chose urged him on.
He came to Canton some IS months
ago and took charge of one of the
papers of former Gov. Cox of Ohio,
the Canton Daily News. He wit
messed one city administration thrown
out. He saw the brother of a mayor
indicted and sent to the penitentiary
for malfeasance in office. He saw a
ment and he Immediately set to work
to help him make a clean city of
Canton.
The city itself is a busy manufac-
turing center 1t boasts a popula-
ton of some 10000, of which 40 per
cent are foreign born. There is
large negro colony, a Greek colony,
in which live more Greeks than in
the city of Clevela nd. and one of the
largest panish.Mexican colonies in
the United States.
Known as Bootleg Center.
1t was an open secret that these
foreigners are making Of Canton a
bootleg center. 1t is an open secret.
and one much talked about, that in
the jungle of Canton are men who
control the red liquor concession, the
corn liquor concession and the dope
concession. 1t is an open secret that
these men have protection, that they
buy it from the police and that a new
gambler coming to Canton must get
permission from king gambler in