| Show FRED 110 PT The person above named contributes contri-butes a leiuthy letter to the J Marshal 111 Messenger and our contemporary of this city I i morning republishes it entire without comment com-ment knowing as it must that the production is one of the moat ludi cronsly false that ever appealed < I even in its columns To eay that tliei syntax is vile would be doing it too i I I much honor that the statements I contained in It do not harmonize Is disclosed before a quarter of a column is disposed of and that it is a batch of execrable falsehocdf i from erd to end the sole tendency of whih is the making of Hopts j prosecution a Mormon outrage Is 1 perhaps the Tribunes only reason for printing the great mass of nonsensical non-sensical stuff at all i Hopt refers to Sheriff Turner as a man who has been accorded more privileges than an emperor says that the legislature appropriated to him Turner 2700 to be used lot the purpose of obtaining lying witnesses wit-nesses etc when the facts are f that the Sheriff obtained from the I Territory a thousand dollars less than stated and that amount was simply reimbursement for sums r actually expended in his official capacity cap-acity in hunting down and endeavoring endeav-oring to bring to justice one of the J I vilest murderers of modern times 1 And then the production of young Turners stall in court is attributed tothe deceaseds father and further on he refers to the cowardly means employed and the prostitution of law and jastice 1 t t Probably nowhere else in the world s i h t i would such an anomaly be possible f as the triple conviction of a murderer ° N 1 niL I mur-derer by impartial and mixed juries I k i I the prosecution conducted by men I fIN it whose social and political sentiments I IT if senti-ments decidedly against those of the principal prosecuting witness a i t j i I verdict of guilty be squarely ob 1 tained on each occasion and the t author of the crime be permitted to 1 i I use the columns of a journal oft of-t general circulation without protest J or comment on its part to make I r j H 1I himself appeal the victim of a community I t1 munity which never injured him in pi f fi j I Jlj it1 any way and whose only desire so piW lid E far as he is concerned is the vindi i 11 W I t I I I cation of the law l Can any sane person believe that t tl if Hopt had been a Mormon he t I would be alive today Will anyone f i I any-one have the temerity to assert that I j a Mormon was ever convicted of a 1 I crime according to the forms of law r I and did not pay the penalty or that a unanimously Mormon jury I 4 ever convicted a Gentile of murder t We think not This is not saying b that he owes his life to the fact of Diu his being a Gen tile by any means i but it certainly disposes of his assertions as-sertions to the effect that the Mormons t Mor-mons as such arc or ever have been in the position in which he endeavors en-deavors to place them His letter is j t t less grammatical and pointed than I I f the avigage Tribune editorial ont i on-t Utah affairs but is nearly as Eenei > t ble and truthful its conclusions The man who owes his existence to a mistaken idea of the law on the s part of law executors and expounders tw4 r expound-ers has thesame right to be heard = L1 in his own behalf tbat the one who 5I has been unfairly convicted ha 4 and it is no reflection en any newspaper news-paper to print his statement I The paper also has the right to subjoin its opinions on the subject and if it fails to do BO and the matter is of some consequence 1 conse-quence the presumption remains that it concurs While such a deduction t 1 de-duction places our cotemporary in avery J a-very unfavorable position before the Jt public it can hardly be claimed that F q it does not merit it and more It is F j a piece of rank folly to permit such r a question as the tenure of a murderers h mur-derers life to enter Into the consideration consid-eration of a profound political prob < a lorn and those who are not only t + willing to do so but actually flo itS S a ll show either a degree of malice l i which is to be abhorred or a condi r rIL I I tion of iKnorance such as is deplorable deplor-able if not pernicious Let Hopt live or die surviveor perish by fair or foul means he should have no words ofreproach for Mormon Jew or Gentile for the verdict in cnch of his three trials was exactly with the and tqnarely in accordance sworn facts presented by the witnesses wit-nesses He has lived too long and the world can get along without him |
