The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-01
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To the Editor:
see from the Decatur news dis
patches that the grand jury at the
insistence of the Anti-Saloon
League is about to indict Mr.. Gill
liom.
1t will be a travesty on justice
to indict him alone. The jury should
indict Dr. Rayl, DR.. Wizard, and Mr..
Gilliom for giving the whisky, also
Miss Gilliom, and Harry johnson,
the other patient for taking the
whisky, even If it did save their
lives. No one has a right to be
saved from the grave if the Shu-
maker Wright bone dry law is vio-
lated in the attempt.
The Decatur hospital should be
padlocked for year for possessing
whisky Illegally. For a hospital to
possess half pint of whisky and
use it to save only two lives is a
blot upon the fair name Of Bone
Dry Indiana, where man has to
search half a day to find even half
pint Of whisky.
suppose after the bone dry law /.
went into effect this, half pint Of
whisky had been overlooked by its
owner; hence, the reason for its
existence in this dry State!
OF course. the bone dry law is
not intended to disturb the Illicit
moonshiners and bootleggers in and
around Decatur who are supplying
oooze to people for miles and miles
around. 1t is intended only to pre-
vent whisky from being given to
sick people when the doctors are
grabbing the last straw to help
them.
II another patients life is saved
by whisky, Indiana win have the
reputation Of being a wet State. 1t
is such a law-abiding State that it
Will be a shame for even helpless =
SICK people to get the State into
disrepute.
Shumaker was about ready to give
us his job, thinking the State was
pone dry, when up popped Gilliom, :
the doctors and two patients and a
half pint of whisky, causing him
ana the w. G. T. U. to start another
dry crusade.
a U. N. JONES.
Elkhart, Ind.
70 the Editor:
l would reduce Ruth Snvder's
sentence to life nprisonment--he
whole life-not part of it, but all.
She may repent during that time
and gain the kingdom of heaven.
Some one might say, how can a
murderer enter the kingdom of
heaven, for the good book saws a
murderer shall not enter the king
dom of heaven2 Then you read
further and it says, if you remain a
murderer you can not enter, but if
you confess your sins before the
Father and he forgives you and you
are converted and stay converted.
you have chance, the same as
Moses.
He murdered a man and covered
him up with sand on desert. He
was forgiven and the good book
reads that an angel and the devil
both claimed him, but the power of Z
God was the greatest and he was
taken into heaven. He is still there.
The executioner of Ruth Snyder
is just as guilty as she is, accord
ing to the Bible, and always will be
guilty as long as he stays on the Job.
He can quit it and be redeemed
through repentance only.
do not believe in capital punish-
ment. A READER,
To the Editor:
A few days ago you had an article
in your paper requesting petitions
on capital punishment, the electric q
chair or hanging.
don't believe in it. 1 think
solitary confinement would be far
better. The fellow who presses the
electric button or Springs the trap
is nothing more than a murderer
himself and he will have to answer
for it some time. If they had soil
tary confinement instead, the pris-
oner would die sooner or later.
Often you read where an inno-
cent person pays with his life for
crime he never committed. IF
he had been in solitary confinement
he could be pardoned and the right
person put in his place.
I think if this subject were
brought before the public through
the papers in a way which thew
could fully understand, it could be
completely banished from our laws.
and in its place have solitary con-
finement Instead of capital punisll-
ment.
If this letter will help to Danish
the electric chair and the hang
mans moose, I am glad to have
written it.
ROBERT HERON.