Show FALSE AND ungrateful IN THE examination before commissioner norrell on Thursday Mra cornelia H paddock complained of the newspapers of this city with one exception stating that they had been opposed to her family because of her writings this is evidence that the witness is as little influenced by gratitude as truth the criminalities of her boy now committed for two plain cases of burglary are notorious in the community and have been borne with patiently and at the fathers father s request the papers referred to have in times past suppressed the publication of damaging facts which actually appeared feared in the sheet excepted we have refrained from mentioning many things that have been called to our attention concerning the author of the anti imor mon slush which a too confiding publisher has issued from the press we have kept quiet upon many dom damaging aging facts concerning the family that might have been given to the public in hi the regular course of news it is ia not true that for any cause the paddocks have been singled out for attack either by theoress the press or the officers instead they have been treated with ox a forbearance that has almost ceased to be a virtue s theu the utmost leniency possible has been shown to the boy who was hidden from the officers and a portion of whose plunder was received into the house of his parents his u utterly vile and depraved conduct was condoned by sending him to the insane asylum because there was then no reformatory in which he could be placed and out of kindness to the parents who now seek to shield him him and ungratefully spit out venom against the forbearing he has bas been dealt with gently and mercifully the course pursued by the paddocks in the latest development of natural depravity in their wayward son will neither help him nor create for them any respect in this comin community unity their own testimony proves that they were shielding him from the officers and that this was attempted by violence when an officer with a warrant is assailed with a loaded cane ane and movements are made to impress him with the idea that firearms will be used in addition he is justified jn in law and by the instinct of preservation self in using force to defend his own person the idea that a policeman may be abused threatened and assaulted with impunity is absurd the officers were in the rightful exercise of their calling when obstructed ted by paddock and if this had been another kind of case and the officer had bad been a deputy marshal in all probability there would have bave been a death instead of a knockdown it must be remembered that when burglaries repeatedly occur blame to is at once attached to the police if they do not discover the criminals young paddock was was known to have recently committed two A portion of the booty was found in his parents house they endeavored to conceal him and then his father tried to forcibly prevent his arrest js Is this persecution has it anything to do with the rubbish written by the woman to make money and pander to ignorant ign drant brej prejudice udice common prudence and common decency would have suggested silence instead of self exposure sympathy may be felt for persons who have ungovernable and lawless lawlees children but such feelings will be obliterated by furious it attempts tempts to divert attention from crime with false attacks on the merciful the paddocks should burt court as bittle publicity as possible |