Show AS BLACK AS THE infamy of the murder committed by deputy marshal thompson is 18 only equalled equal led by that of bis apologists the organ of slander and hate which js is engaged daily in li beling ithe mor mons and stirring up anger against them joins hollister HoU ister in defaming the character of the murdered dalton in order to divert attention from the guilt of the asnass assassin in tribune mud mua li is thrown throw at his vic tift also charges charged against other mormons Mor mons are put forth as though their wrongdoing wrong doing even even it if as alleged were any justification justin cation for the crime of the bloodthirsty deputy all the falsehoods that adapts at lying may heap upon the name mame of the dead will not mitigate the enormity of the deed of the living li it only serves to show the blackness of their hearts and the deep dyed villainy that status their mendacious souls it Is plain to all ato read their desperate fabrications to screen the ass that they applaud the deed in secret and consider T thomp p sons bloody work amm if not 0 praiseworthy nothing more shame e tul ul than this slander of the dead by telegraph sad and tribune has appeared in print for a long time the apologist for murder says according to the statutes of th this is territory made by mormon Mor mons 81 a homicide is excusable when cammi committed eted by an officer In attempting to arrest a man charged with an offense able by imprisonment in the penitentiary if the killing is necess necessity iry to prevent the escape of i the be accused T the be statutes of the ter territory aitor provide nothing of the kind the tra une tal fal it pretends to quote when endeavoring to make a point against a mormon or n favor of an anti 1 mormon birg here Is the provision dision homicide is S when committed toy public officers when necessarily committed in re taking felons who have been rescued or escaped or committed in arresting persons charged with felony land who are fleeing from justice or insist ing such arkeat 11 Coni compiled piled laws p Wefa ave italicized italicised sed certain words to emphasize the difference between their import and odthe the tribunes n perversion verti iou dalton was not accused of felony felon either at the time of the shooting or his alleged escape from previous p arrest lie helas was not then fleeing from justice at all whether he was so fleeing jor or riot not the statute does I 1 not justify the officer aw killing him it was nat not done aone necessarily in any ease aas e there is no me law ot of god or man that gives color of justification abr the deed and no one but the creatures who arenow trying to laud the murderer and defame his victim is so lost to common decency as to endeavor to palliate the crime and try to defeat the claims of Jus justice justabe tibe 1 the tribune says it was district attorney dickson who urged the examination of the case by the present grand jury at beaver when itis it is understood that abat the murderer selected that grand jury and that ot ottber them went out to meet him to take him from his mormon captors the announcement by th the organ eorgan that speaks sadak s for mr dickson will not shed much glory upon his official braw the whole business is abominable |