| Show The statement o one of the chief wit nosriCB Inc one of the political murder cases of Kentucky that all he testified to was false Is not e very strange Mr William E Curtis o the Chicago Record Rec-ord has been vlaltlng Kentucky nnd invcsUeatlnK the conditions In that State Among other things he Invest gated was the recyit trial of the man I accused of the murder of Goebel After showing tho utter partisan character i char-acter ofthose trials he aayg The most wjnieil lawyers In Kentucky I + tell me that the proceedings In all three CASeS are without pr nillf for partisanship by the court and the jurj In the history rfr American Jurisprudence and thaithe 1 Dreyfus is Int cane H Limo only ono within the present century that can be quoted In the I Manic connection Tho proceedings horntvt Judge Canlrlll at Georgetown remind them more of tho Spanish Inquisition I than anything In modern criminal proso utnl The Juries that convlctd these I ihrco men were not drawn from time reKu 1m panol although sixty names rClu nlhoush wore left i in the wheel but were summoned lef Monally by tho Sheriff from among hlx jjcrccnal acquaintances monB thu Stntf Jar neECMIntlon have prepared and I published a statement of the case ad y t < I 7i dreoscd to the members of tho American Bar association and lawyers throughout the United States setting forth the vucta I Is a terrible arraignment of the Kentucky Ken-tucky Judiciary but they tell me hero that there h3 little public excitement over tho convictions bucaUBc Ier body know l thut tho Court of Appeals will overrule the judgments und net aside thu entire proceedings That Js an arraignment which we I have never seen equaled in this country coun-try None of us will have any right hereafter to speak scornfully of the partisanship or the casteshlp of the I Dreyfus trial I we have In the midst of our own country In a Slate proud of Its history a State that for years has claimed that its people were models I that Its men represented the hlghcnt honor the finest chivalry the noblest courage of any State in the Union even as Its women were the fairest and Its horses the finest and to have an indictment indict-ment like that put upon the very courts of the State those courts to which are submitted the lives and the fortunes of the men of Kentucky Is a record so shameful 1 that Ken tuckhans generally ought to either establish its untrulh or ought to have a social revolution and place their Slate once more on a respectable basis |
