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Show .TRUTHS. A little over a year ago a colored H man named Voss was shot down and H killed in tliis city by one of his race, H named Day. The slayer was, after H the usual delays ;nd preliminaries, H brought to trial and promptly found H guilty of murder in the first degree H without recommendation and sen- H tenced to death. The usual appeal H followed, which was dismissed, and H the invariable petition to the pardon H board followed, this also resulting in H failure. Then began the preparations H for execution, coincidently with the H work of tin sentimentalists, who are H alwrys in evidence on such occasions H seeking to undo the work of the law H and thwart the ends of justice. Day's H crime is. entitled to be classed among B those which in the criminal caJcndir, H arc h.cadcd "infamous," because un- H provoked and wholly without war- H rant, the victim having been a most H exemplary man, highly respected not H only by his own people but by all H who knew him educated ar.d pro- H grcssivc to a considerable dfcgrex. H To say that capital punishment docs M society no good in the long run and H might profitably be dispensed with M altogether may bj true, but apart M from the proposition; wc have a law M and it should be impartially enforced. M However, after letting such malcfac- - M tors as that brae: of double mhr- M dqrers, Botha and Shocklcy, escape, M it seems almost idle to inveigh M against anything in the pardoning M line; if they did not deserve death, M nobody ever did or docs. M o M |