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Show her life; while he, according to report, re-port, is now in the employ of a San Francisco tea house, at a salary sal-ary of $250 per month. She .is in a position of as deep distress and agongas; a human being well can be; her husband hus-band lies in a untimely grave; the whole community is wrought up over the shocking affair, while the' cause of it all is flying high on-a fat salary, a magnate in social, and business circles. The burning, grinding 'sense of injustice which these facts create, coupled with the full realization (hat the forms and methods of the law know no remedy for them, may well incite'a lynching. The law says that the testimony of a ruined women is not sufficient to even hold Tor trial her betrayer, unless corroborative evidence is. at hand; and if the miscreant who wrecks her life is sufficiently secretive in his methods, he may work his vil-liany vil-liany to his heart's content, and laugh at courts of justice. The "News" is not here advocating advocat-ing lynching; but if such an act is justifiable at all, it is when its victim has, by the method of the serpent, or the violence or the brute, robbed a chaste woman of her honor; and there are many offenses that are much more serious seri-ous than the sending of such a wretch into eternity by the most convenient and expeditious meaus at hand. Deseret News. A women might almost as well be dead as to lose her virtue, and rather than submit to a fiend, she had better kill him. We do not say this as advocating advocat-ing killing, but we consider the woman would be justified in so doing. One Cause for Lynching?. The trial of '-Mrs. Hamilton for the murder for her husband, which is now in progress in this city, brings out in a strong light one of the chief causes of lynchings in this county. The elements of the tragedy are these: Mrs. Hamilton was living happily with her husband hus-band until she met a society man who seduced her. In a lit of remorse re-morse she confessed to her husband. hus-band. A separation ensued which . was followed by a quarrel during which the fatal 6hot was fired. If we liken all this mass of temptation, tem-ptation, remorse and crime to an inverted pyramid, , wo may also liken the seducer to the apex on which it rests. In his corrupt heart the whole of this wickedness and shame and suffering had its origin. His victim stands before the community in which she was reared and loved, degraded, disgraced, dis-graced, abhorred, and on trial for |