The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-18

ION their own soul. believe ~
i capital punishment, most elnpllati-
i caIIy, and would like 10 see the
i guilty ones take what the law
says they should.
i FayOrs Public Defender
i The law, / have learned. +
| very strange thing. Tic a person
i is guilty, It seems to me much
easier to have a lawyer protect
him and set him free. than Tor
an innocent person to be proved
innocent.
4 can't see why they let people
suspected OF crime have private
Il criminal lawyers that they Pay
| immense sums to, to keep them
safe. IL a person is charged with
crime. think he ought to have
| public lawyers who are paid by
| the State, to defend them, just IS
they assign a lawyer to poor per-
son, and just as they assign o
district attorney to convict an In
dicted person.
Anybody that listened to lhes
first proceedings in this Hall-A1ilis
murder case would have lost every
bit of feeling he may have AID
about the dignity OF the law and
the existence Of equal justice for
all. But now, through the I'M
firing activities of Senator Simp-
son. have regained respect for
the law and its officers.
Senator Simpson is a wonderful
man and almost begin to have
d glimmer of hope that he will
bring out some of the truth. Mrs.
the newspapers call her, is one OF
those you can't help but admire,
because they have personality.
Mrs. Gibson q Character
She certainly has nothing to gain
or lose by telling the truth about
what she saw that awful night Of
September 14-no axe at all to
grind. Mrs. Gibson is what you call
"a character She does what she
wants to do in the way she wants
to do it; she has the courage Of
her convictions, and no fear Of any,
body.
She may be eccentric, but she is
certainly sensible and courageous.
She is a good deal of mystery
says she doesn't know where she
was born. only thing it was some
place in the United States; but that
has nothing to do with her honesty.
She may not have education, out
she certainly is intelligent and level
headed. She is hard worker,
minds her own business, looks after
her farm, her house, her husband
and kid (she has a grown son and
a babyl, and has a straightforward
way with her that just gets her
across / can't find any other
words for it.
You can't help liking her. Mrs.
Jane Gibson is about the best illus
tration of what personality is and
what it can do. that ever saw.
A MOtherIy Samaritan
Even though didn't know her
before she testified at the first
hearing four years ago. and still
don't know her except from seeing
her in connection with this case,
there have been many times when
I thought of her more as mothers.
Samaritan.
Mrs. Gibson, under, oath, posi-
lively identified MIR. Carpenter aud
Willie Stevens as people she saw
out there near DeRussey Lane that
terrible night-saw the flashIight on
their faces. She never had met
them and didn't know who they
were. she said at the time she
made the Identification. She also
says she heard woman cry. ''Oh,
Henry."
I am only Charlotte Mills, daugh-
ter of one OF the murder victims,
he mother who stood for all that
vas dear and happy in my life, and
Tor all that the future held. am
1ot lawyer, of course, and my
opinions count for nothing. / am
Interested only in seeing Justice
lone.
TOmOrr0W-Cha Mills ex-
plains the mystery Of her mothers
love letters.
The Big Time Iimited e ! sne.