Show THE llever liever TICK HOMICIDE THERE will be general satisfaction over the discharge of george W conkling who shot lmh haver stick in new york on the of march the particulars of the case have appeared in our oun dispatches haverstick Have had induced mr conk lings sister to leave her husband J clement uhler with whom he had been in business partnership th the e husband and wife quarreled the stepped in and seduced the wife from her home and the guilty parties had lived jived together about two yea years ra mr conkling mrs uhlers brother is a US Surveyor and ilves lives at reno beno nevada he went to new york to make a reconciliation if possible between his bis sister and her husband or induce her to leave her para paramour and come and live ilva with him promising her that though unable to provide her with luxuries lie he would make her comfortable she coneen consented ted and on his going to the house where bhe she lived with Have haverstick with whom she had been quarreling an altercation ensued haverstick throwing off his ca coat at and throwing an image imago at conkling when the latter drew a revolver and shot his bis assailant who died in a few ini minutes at the was elicited that Have haverstick had 1 be haved caved with brutality to the woman whom he had seduced and that Con klings klinga deed was done in self defence yet as the verdict ot of the jury was that the deceased came to his death by a wound inflicted by conkling and the shot was fired under great provocation the prisoner was re committed to the tombs however he was admitted to ball bail on his hib case being taken before a judge of the supreme court and when the charge was made against him before the police justice he was acquitted on the ground of justifiable homicide it be by many that the cabo case ought to have been submitted to a jury this no doubt would have bea been more satisfactory in every way the killing of a human being ought not to be ba passed over as of little mo men teven though the evidence cofar all runs against the deceased an and d Is ia such as ti to enlist public sympathy in favoron favo the slayer blayer and it would be better for the accused to be cleared by a jury of hla hib countrymen of any imputation of guilt than to be discharged without a full and fair examination that Have haverstock was worthy of death few parsons persons will attempt to deny and mat that conkling was justl justi fled in slaying his sitters ait tera betrayer most people will admit and if the adulterer or seducer the invader of family honor or the betrayer of 0 maiden confidence and virtue were always in danger of meeting a just reward for his villainy there would be fewer blasted homes and wrecked and shameful lives in the world but the penalties against the dennler dennier of woman should be made adequate by the law and be legally inflicted private vengeance ought not to be necessary it is a poor substitute for legal punishment but it la is better than none noney and while we deplore the need for it here or else where we cannot utter a word of 0 blame when a husband father or brother of a betrayed woman takes the law into his own hands handa and smites the guilty villain unto death if a few of such scoundrels were made to bite bile the dust in these parts the moral atmosphere of thia this i region would in our opinion be much pleaman ter ten to breathe |