| Show OFFICIAL MURDER AT PAROWAN today to DAY dault it Is 15 OUT our painful duty to chronicle a tragedy that was enacted in the usually quiet and peaceful town of parowan carowan Pa rowan iron Co county finty A united states deputy marshal named thompson shot and killed a young man named edward M dalton against whom an indictment had bad been found for unlawful cohabitation the particulars tic ulars of the bloody affair are necessarily meagre assuming them to be correct the officer who did the killing committed a murder it does not appear that young dalton was in the custody castad y of the marshal and the offense for which he had bad been indicted is a misdemeanor lu in this connection the following legal authorities define the crime that has been committed there is a very broad dihins tion between forcible opposition to an arrest and attempt attempting in to flee from it in cases 0 of I 1 misdemeanor rp there is no rule of law wit takes away f aroa rom a man wf flees from an attempted arrest the right to 10 defend his life AU an officer in such cases is not justified in shooting at st a person whom he is attempting to arrest because he will not stop criminal law boccal of pal see sec mere words spoken will not constitute an arrest there must be something by wa way of physical restraint 1 blows bishops criminal procedure see sec 1 in cases of a felony when called to the defendant should stop but if he be does not the officer is justified ia 14 shooting at him but if a misdemeanor he has no right to take this extreme measure ibid see sec generally speaking speak ingin 1 10 misdemeanors it will be murder to kill the par party ac casal A tor for flying f from rom arrest t though on h h he I 1 cannot be overtaken aul and tho though I 1 ah xh there be a warrant to apprehend h him im 2 bishops criminal Crim iaal law sec this murder is but the culmination of a series of the most revolting outrages perpetrated by U S deputy mars marshals hals in the course of the cruel crusade conducted conduct eA against a long lone suffering people during the last two years pistols have been drawn flourished and pointed at old men sua boys a against te a whom no crime was even a alleged ged they have been thus threatened and bullied and their lives jeopardized when in the exercise of their freedom they were about to leave some locality where the officers were searching tor for persons whose custody they desired this murder is also the natural outgrowth of the hit highhanded and infamous course ta taken en by numbers of federal officials toward 1 I mormons cormons Mor mons 11 their conduct has inspired some of the lower grade of the same saine ilk with the idea that they could i perpetrate ler any species ot of outrage upon the people with impunity the news of odthe the murder marder has created intense indignation among tha th citizens of tins this locality no wonder that it should have ouch euch an effect upon the people who have been ex 61 aspe raid by a adries aeries of outrages deachin reaching k nearly to the point of murler ler for a considerable zane effle that has been almost past endurance well might many y of of them exclaim as they have f frequently bently dooe done wit when en shall there b 09 an end to io such villainous pro ceedie nd how long snail shall we be compelled to suffer them |
