| Show BRING OUT THAT LETTER ALL the stories telegraphed to the east by 0 J hollister about the murdered man dalton in order to justify the assassin thompson have been proven false and slanderous nothing but vile defamation of the dead except the assert assertion iop that he had bad written a letter of warning to the notorious deputy gleason not to corae cope tor for him unless he came armed and intimating that he would meet with a warm reception it is quite likely that gleason gleaso n may have claimed to have received such a communication but bat this is no evidence that the claim is true the general belief is that the story was manufactured fac cured for the occasion being grouped with other wilful fabrications fur su so despicable a purpose god and coming from such a source it is not entitled to much credence it is one of those allegations alie nations that cannot be disproved by i a simple negative but on the other hand it may be fairly discredited and ranked with the other assertions of hollister now proven to be false until some evidence that it is true is advanced by those who have uttered it what the would like is the production of the alleged letter or let bertrom ter dalton to gleason Glea aon it has bem bea published that the deceased decea sent repeated repealed communications of defiance it claimed c that thal they wert all destroyed declaimed except one ona well let that one if it exists be produced and fairly examined as to its genuineness we snare share toe the incredulity of daltons dalfons Dal tons friends in relation to the matter simply iSi publishing what may inay be pretended te is the dalton letter the claim Is 13 now whittled down to one purported communication will not be evidence at all concocted correspondence has appeared too often in the organ t that hat apologizes for the murder to nave dave any r weight with a discerning public the alleged letter must be submitted to those familiar with the murdered mans man Is handwriting or r the pretence predence pre tence will be utterly in vain we loin join in the demand for the production and test of the alleged letter from dalton and failing that we shall retain our belief that like the rest of the slanders upon the dead man lathered by hollister and imposed on the country by telegraph the story was deliberately libera tely made up to blacken bla ciren the victim and whitewash the assassin |
