| Show aw i 1 OF 0 THE FARCE T s I 1 trial of vo 01 thompson for 1 1 etarl for january ath 1 1 venire is fora for a jury T 19 lt 1 on 04 tho the iB baste exhibited f MB 40 two ma RA occasions ioas ina in 1944 its aaa N there is only ape cne reabon ri aBon or it ii app apparent to tha public mind that is the deedre that the whole bubines sim may be settled by persons selected from a certain class of the com ar y wf K any aby by C p t k 11 0 bethe IQ bo telf be e WA ey acl irl labors for he term lerio W I 1 t d that hat b eject the ne will em dueled 0 air S u az iced by at oe be p picked ou out t fw a PW purpose 8 so 0 W with tit jury would have ao to alpe case unless it wag set oat for the vr trio arm by the arrangement now e the will be selected elected on the same same principle as we the and thu the reason fo for the peculiar uliah aste may be easily t if I 1 it to is com momy believed t jape te whole thing will prove alarce a farce evary pry possible means WUL be em natii d to plear clear the assassin in a th the wa eyes of the rabid antl anti IM M irmon class whose sentiments are mouthed by ta tribune be has kihei a mormon and as is therefore ther eiore elore a hero to be aided in his trial by the whole force of gentile that sympathy and gentile money that includes included the support of every official who will be engaged in the investigation vesti gation tiou into the charge that help is called for by the paper that oat j justifies the orline I 1 tile the defense is foreshadowed foreshadower fore shadowed through t ho same organ it is 16 claimed that the territorial statutes class as felonies all crimes punishable hAule with penitentiary tent teat iary Jary imprisonment also that dalton was escaping from arrest and as the law makes homicide justifiable jus tillable when in betak ing felons who have been rescued or lia have e escaped or in arresting P persons erious charged with felony and ile elti from justice it is ars argued rued anat Tho avys NA as legally justified in killing in dulton the callacy of such a plea W will id be seen on a moments critical examination the territorial statutes do not punish me e offense w with th which dalton was a uy by imprisonment in the penitentiary tent ut ary iary they do not make his al acts any offense at all the law which he wah wab accused of offending is a statute of the united states blates and it defines the offense as a misdemeanor dewe apor therefore it is not k a felony either actually or by implication neither the territorial alaouie nar the edmunds act makes akes unlawful cohabitation punishable m with wilh penitentiary imprisonment that that it is not a felony even if it were so ao punishable is made certain by its designation as a misdemeanor baere lore fore chat subterfuge tails lails in th the beginning it IL is when arresting felons that under certain circumstances officers ficera of axe aire justified just lUci in committing homicide A felon ia one convicted of felony E B M moalton MD alton was neither convicted nor even charged with telony therefore ther elore that i plea is id apt enable and even when felons are escaping or hee flee jug from froin justice fie ae act of the officer wust bo be necessarily done id in order 10 to justify homicide this thia was k learly clearly nut not me case in the shooting ngat at faro Parow waa gu NO 0 o ollices ills has the right to call calla a man to halt anti immediately shoot win him in the back as eyewitnesses eye ec witnesses testily hompson homp sog did when he killed dalton jt AL is argued that just so soon as it that a marshal commits a felony it be uses any force in the ie arrest oi of a man indicted under the edmunds law those guilty will merey merely I 1 atu laugh gh when a warrant is to them eui 11 A verdict son san vrigil establish hsuch nou nonsense gense it iiii Uh ply put into effect that which is already esta established Wished by law namely that officers have no right to kill persona person charged with a simple misdemeanor whether they are escaping or not there has never been a case 04 0 u unlawful n resistance to arrest under the edmunds law since its enforcement and there is no cause to anticipate any unless by the verdict of a packed I 1 lury ury it is established contrary to and in ae flance of law that a deputy har marshal may shoot at persons persona accused of a misdemeanor when it Is quite likely that citizens will prepare LO defend themselves against official ast there will be trouble in the laud land that no well weil disposed man anan or woman desires to see it is asserted that the mormons cormons will do their utmost to convict ol thompson th on therefore it is claimed that th the gentiles entile all must see that he be has every advantage und erthe law if this is not cool and impudent in the face of ane facts what can be designated by those terms the whole in waiter abler will be la gentile hands bands judge jury a attorneys op ays eys all aalthe the officers and attaches of the court art and all engaged in the defense will be gentiles 11 what more could any an ly ag gentile murderer derer ask or i iny any apol t for official elal assassination demand deman d r and jet me support aud influence of the whole gentile element in ia the territory is I 1 s solicited as necessary to 10 the gentile gent le cause A fair trial Is all that we can now how ask tor for but this the public do not expects pe ato the rhe indictment found by the friends of the murderer murder cr and the course taken take to 9 secure secure a trial before a jury 0 of f the mild kind described do bot encourage e the anticipation that j ustice justice will claim its own so the people sim simply ply whit wait for the finish of the f aaice a 1 e e 1 w which aich they be ber leive willbe will be the thenna t i n a le leot of the terrible tragedy at parowan Pa Fa rowan |
