Show < 1 1v i MALICE No amount of abuse of the late Dal ti ton no blackening of his character can r s hide the fact that hewS most foully ana r i cowardly murdered by a man r presenting pre-senting the power and authority of the a Federal government Whether Dalton I was a good man or ihard cbaracttr whether his relatives were saints or L sinners can cut no figure in the matter of his killing The awful fact stands i y I I 1 oat to the world that Dalton was riding j d 1L 1 along a public street when n ruffian A I Deputy Marshal rushed oat of a house sc nailed him and shot giving the man time neither to surrender ii t resist nor fly Tnis other truth also stands out prominentlyto defeat all attempts Ji 1 at-tempts at the jastiSestion of the I Ii Deputy namely the killing of Dalton j would have been unlawful under any j I circumstance by the otlicer except in t selfdefense The men who are excua jt fag Thompson and trying to break the effect of his terrible deed tell of their 1 own vicious Hearts The life J of a mail IB nothing to them and they can chuckle ltJ I VJ f c ry k over the murder of a fellow creature of j whom they have never heard but who happen lo blong to a religious society I to which they are uuieasonably op pared Men who can hate as those who are defending Thompson and I scandalizing Dalton bate are to be pitied because ot the gall which has I I taken the place of blood in their vein |