Show wac it murder or justifiable homicide le i the 1111 ing of dives on oil tile the night of 0 tho the ad the ibe police has excited a good dual deal of comment and no little fueling feeling that a should bo be brutally shot down in tho the public streets at 8 or 9 in in tho the evening although a criminal is ia an event which gives riso rise to question whether any maws mans tire life is safe I 1 we hid bid hoped thit a full dinv inv esti gation I 1 would voula be had and if no justification dustir appeared that tile guilty parties would bo be named and brought to punishment in another column will ae be found a lemat hable document which put purports ports to bo be tho the verdict of tile the coi Coto nerys illy joiy it is ic le ironi rom the fact that the jilly studiously avoids mentioning any names irom from it it is impossible to learn vi ho r ired fired the tb fatal and although the justification given falls to meet either cither tile legal or gioi ill of tile the case nobody is even con billed suied much less denounced as guilty of a high Is lifo life held so lightly lore here by tho the itice that a jury can look c calmly on nud simile and smile again IN while bile bloody murder walks wall the streets the N ei ci diet says that tile the warden of the instructed the police to arrest the said vil lum div dives dead or aliv alii 0 I 1 who is tho the warden 11 ardell thit lie ile tills thus buea idues his mandate to tile tho to minder petty criminals iq ig tile the public directs T IVIC does lie he obtain this enol oil power over the lives of men committed to his ellar charge c how is it that he bo allows convicts to wall walk out or of his hh guard house without let or hindrance and then issues his rill fill initiations against them 7 strange tiles tales hare I 1 aar CORP come t to 0 our cars as to tho the doings in in that pe a 1 t I 1 na t a r y and out ont of it how is it that cilmi nals or of high and low degree are arc seen scon upon tho tilo streets at night ransack and rob public pill lie ia buildings buil dingi x visit sit their bo homes and go 1 u hither they list ani and when they please and k 11 d when on some bright night they wall walk abroad and come not back again how bow is it that this t I 1 his careful guardian of the peoples interests scads i word ord to the police to bring them bac back q dead or alive to say the least there seems to be gross and wanton neglect on oil the part of that lV warden arden and an assumption of authority which the law does not vest in him or any other under the he broad canopy of heaven lot let the grand jury look into this nl matter atter and on their oaths answer for the life of this petty convict the verdict proceeds to recite that dives on being discovered by the valiant police ran about sixty rods and falling failing to stop when asked to do so tho the captain of police ordered ills his posse to fire upon him and so they lid did dives falling dead in his tracks who we ne w would ask is this captain ot of police who 0 orders aders men shot down like brutes 9 why is his name not given Is it because as v we e have haic board beard intimated the captain of police is none other than the veritable justice himself who was the acting coroner in this very C case is c or wa some other body elected at the last apology for an election to N which aich we e advel ted a few days since we know inow not but ni we e think the jury has rendered a most S strange verdict in a most strange case it will ill not do to say thit that dives ni was as an contla outlaw w a bad min m in a notorious thief an escaped convict I 1 act a man the law does docs not visit death on men for any or all of taise leagon much illovich less does it put arms in the hands of tile the police for such use in such cases case unless all other means of ie ic capture failed tho the killing hilling of dives was not only unnecessary but was wanton mm der there is no evidence that lie he resiA resisted ted the offices offic ceis ets even if lie he had bad only such resistance a as would put them in danged 0 of f their lives would justify the lakim taking ot of life ile he ran it is true and ii who ho would not ivey did the lie police cease pursuit after sixty rods md then commence their deadly work v ork it kiy be as is claimed that society is better oft wilh ith dives dead than m with ith dives div es alive alev e still v N I 1 a protest society nor the lie police nor yet the I 1 vigilant warden of the penitentiary has arly any I 1 ight tills thus to take tahe human life wo we me ate in informed fortne 1 I on good authority that while several orthe of the police bercon were on tile tho lookout it for dives one passed close by him on the public high highway and tile the convict iii intend of arresting himon the spot as was ills his duty lie hu on until lie ho found ills his comrades and then nil all started in pursuit of the victim was the valiant officer aft aid of the crouching and cringing L 1 lun away tint that lie ho failed in ills hia bounden duty until reinforced aind nd is dai dives es tile the v victim of the u unmanly n fe auais as of tile tho cites i 9 verity verily it looks so go but it is said div dives es mas a da man yea but it is tho the duty of tile police to anest ar tet confine and punish desperate men not to shoot tile thein down like dogs with tile the lights before us we ie ale aio constrained constia ined ne d to believe tint there has flag been it a gross autra outrage C committed not so much on oil virlum dives as upon society itself lab when on mr warden gets gab tiled feeding and caring for his prisoners boners or lien for any cause it may be his big interest or NN wish ill to put a convict out 01 of tile the way how bow easy to have the pi paison ison key within rech or loosen a bar and when the poor victim tempted by liberty see seeks IS safety in fil billit flight lit t to 0 ihsle his mandate shoot him on sight the piece pic abent established in this case and winked at by the coroner and jury is open to tile the abuses even if this cise caso be not 0 onu no of them we think the goo good d n name am of the city police demands th thu it this matter be fully investigated and if as they claim they are blameless let it appear in proof As i it t stands now there ii a dark shadow 0 over C r thi this 8 t transaction N which aich more light would either remove or greatly blacken in ill the one case tho the reputation of the police C calls 1118 for light in the other the rights of the community and blood of tho the victim demands it |