Show AND arlid way WHY NOT years AGO I 1 THE execution of john D lee took place nearly twenty years after the crime which he expiated with wi alth his ire was perpetrated the question la is pertinent and E suggests itself wily why was he pot not tried convicted and punished many vears years ago the answer ia Is plain iain lain and simple because no proper propof et ennas ennes qa were made ito 16 tha bend tend jy the officers of the law duning during all that long interim of nearly two decades deca des deg excepting in ln rg regard dlo to tho the proceedings I 1 m which resulted in the tho consummating event of yesterday march larch 23 yby wily were not judicious steps taken earlier to j judicially investigate the whole affair and aal ferret out und and punish the real cri criminale crimi minah naim because C such sucu did not appe appan alpar ar to be the int lat intention edtion of the federal officials whose business bus ines lues k it was to look jook after such things during nearly all of those twenty year years one th thought lit and one thought aio alo alone 11 seemed eeme hofft to be uppermost in the m minds ands of those officers who controlled ont rolled judicial action in oils connection and that orle one thought was how the despen responsibility 51 I 1 of ille the whole affair could be bei e effectually saddled upon the leading authorities of the church Ch of f jesus christ of latter saddie baddie day saints Saint a if they then could nol noc saddie saddle it there they dl did id not care to saddle it anywhere if that could not be done nothing was desired to be done if that could have been dohe done it would have been done years ago but it never was wms done dont i because it could not be done it nevel will be done because it can not be done the innocent can never W proved guilty because such a it thing ian ItZ impossibility possibility it is i a contradiction in terms it is not possible because it would be bb a contrad contradiction leXion in ln fact facts which never can be |