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Show CONVICTION OF MAJORS. Wo reproduce Ihu following lei tor riuhlMiH.i iu tho .Sab Ltko Tribune of jusuirday wlueli coui.dns f. oil for tltougin fur people who may dealru lo eiimtlder iho peculiar winkings of cnuris o- jttth!o. Tho leitcrh.iys: Editor Tilluine; To ninny who Itnvo uoi been hllmled with pa-slnn or pre Jiidlue, tho benlenco Ubud upon Young iMorgau, or Majors, appeiiraio bo a 11 tyrant aiiuso of power unjust, nn wu'i r imed, revengeful. Is liu lonlly guilty of a foul iinirdoi? Will not i-omw legal light Inform an IgnuiMUt. public mi this pnlut uud lull us wb it murder U? Alio M'jori Is couvlct-d and sentenced sen-tenced to duai It for ihu crime of stand-lug stand-lug by tho corpit of tills niuidered brother and snooting down thu man whu bad taken bis life. Is a man guilty of minder who rotiiliales anil kids tin. man who is ttisullliig lilin and making him u target for gtln practice? NoW, It Is a well-known fuel that Iho Majors brothers did not do any shooting until niter they were II red Upon by thu otllcers, nnd wun they did ruluru the Uro it was lu gclf-do-fuiibc. Abo Mitjuis did svhai uiuely men out of a hundred would do If In similar clrcuniMuuces, aid count It nn crime at that. What right had thu olllcers to kill a man who ui most wan uply suspected of crime, nrd what rg' t this bt'tto has tp oxoctiiu a man found gtithy of defeudliig hlmelf mid killliig'tho iu'hi who hud .riurtlered ids brpibcr, lu hard to uiidui'8taiid. i If ItilwMn l curroHtlyiTeirHrtl, anil indoi'd admltteU by thn o 01 ears them sely s, Hint they wore po ihniituuh'v ernr' (I and xehrd ihit they scarc-lr knew what they ivt're dtilnp; tit the 'I""' Hrnwn was killed, U It not rtittmutnhh' for us to uppoe lli-it. they theniRolreS nilgltt. have nreldentally bten th" causn of Hniwn'rt tleiithf " ' Indeed, sit great wit their nxche ' nieiit thui after discharging their gun' II never o. cut red to them lo he nl u" in-ffssnry lo reload, but they continued to hiiinmer nwny at the old hflls, and only when the battle whs over and itlipvhnd ri galned their composure, did ' Kiev dlsenver why It wan. that more elfenilve work ha.d not been perforiie'd. Now, Is it not possible, uud even prob-thl , Hint In UiU trener il nielt'.' Drown met his d'Mih tit iluj Into is of these excited men. rather than bv yniiiig illujois. wlin avors that ho never dlscliatged ids gun at all? Tin! litis mailer had nut. boon properly prop-erly Investigated Is beyond gainsay. Why ws It i nt clearly determined at lie puAt-mortetll ex iiiiIiimIIoii of IJiiiwii's limly the ealdaT nf '.he linll-t which caused his tlealhJ It' the bullet cntii" "iu lower iliaii where It entered would It lint at bust show Iho direction in which It. came f i out. mid thus tie tpimino from which of tho contending parries it cauier w w w Now there urn vety fe.w who will say that Mitjors got a fair ami Impartial trial; the mnl that can he Paid for It In Hint It was hut a snperllela.l nffair and iiitwon'hy of tlin men who conducted con-ducted b ami If the sentence nf death Is allowe'd to bo cairied tait, It will nt ii tul iis a Stigma on the uiiino of our fair State. We ought certainly to paun nnd consider con-sider well Iho evidence lu the ease before be-fore we rashly condemn a man to den'li, lest wo ho found guilty of judical judi-cal murder. Trustlmr Hint Urn peoplo nf this Slate wl I not ncntile-co In tins Judicial murder, but will tako aieps lo pi event it, I am t-iiiceruly yoms, J. 1), Ogdoo, Uiali, May 1800. |