Show UNLAWFUL KILLING that lynching lunching lyn ching at a D batur illinois on saturday was one of those bious of outraged society that do not generally spend their force until the object ot A it is kno known wn to be destroyed beyond the reach of hit blis pursuers they illustrate with exactness how weak ani nj flimsy flimey Is lathe the barrier which civil bation has baa erected between the human of today and of the age when clad in skins and armed with weapons fashioned ione dout out of rooks rocks he went forth to destroy without discrimination awl ani without mercy itoney it only needs a sudden and violent shock to the sensuous nature to cause the veneering of en lightened restraint which has been growing about the race for so many ages to droboff drop off as an unfastened cavak and nd the animal part to exercise lull full sway that the victim of the mobsy vengeance deserved all he got is neit ler ier here nor there he claimed to the last that he was innocent and as there was no direct proof to the contrary it is possible that he be was but the probabilities loan lean the other way of course all ail this matters tuat not A gang of madmen in possession of the object of their frenzy are not the proper persons persona to determine that question quest ionn anu elven even if it were determined beyond all peradventure they have no right to execute a judgment especial y one formed in il defiance of ane law it is gratifying to note that governor altgeld realizes the gravity of cf the offense and is not clis Olo posed to deal with it in a mild in mannered a u ered way the authority of the state has baa teen been set at defiance in order that a murder might be committed and le be cannot afford to do it less as than exhaust if necessary necea sary bis big off official loial authority and the commonwealths commonweal thys power in bringing the guilty to justice and the guilt of me wretch upon whom they exercised kneir unlawful vengeance is not defensive matter it in the least such outrages are becoming common and tor for the sake of society in general as a means ol of restraints restrain tas well as a vindication ot of the laws the perpetrators should be brought to a full atonement A man was wag recently acquitted of the charge of murder in one ut of the courts of orthis this territory the jury lound that ne ine was insane at the time he be committed the ottense offense sod thus forever placed him beyond any pun that the laws of man cau can inflict and it if be was really insane or it ii the jury j oary however mistakenly rn sti kealy had bad clause cause to believe tram froim the evidence that he was not responsible at the time their act was just and proper he was not in sane at the trial though and on his examination shortly after was shown to be not only souni but tolerably bright alao a short time before the killing he be was not altogether it 11 at all unbalanced and thui ugly as such conclusion clu islon may be it looks very much as if the refuge of those charged with homicide tia its I 1 been successfully stu lly resorted to once more we can understand readily enough that insanity insani tv is as often paroxysmal and momentary affect ilig the strongest and best ot of winds minds as it is organic or resulting result inu through a mental strain or great ue de prep slon sion of that the passions are sometimes the master maiter of the situation and the person but their slave all of which in at be duly considered in any such case but in the one apo ren of the wrath engendered seems to have grown gradually to have been nursed to some extent because the defendant had bad been robbed it if this was a fact ind and we have no reason to doubt it it was not sufficient justification for killing either with or without the operation of law Tota kea a mand life to save prop property pirty from him which he unlawfully seeks when there is no other safe or ready means la Is Justi justifiable flAble sometimes but to brood over losses and finally seek reek to get evens even by killing the robber is another adother matter altogether it is ie a dangerous thing for the community which excuses it a dangerous thing for the whole human family |