Show THAT BOGUS LETTER IN the pretended trial of W thompson for killing E M dalton one ene gleason formerly a deputy marshal exhibited as a witness for the defense a letter purporting to have been sent to him bl b dalton warning gleason to come heeled when he attempted his arrest if the prosecution had bees conducted with a genuine desire to prosecute the authenticity of that letter would have been put to the test it would have been determined whether the communication was genuine whether it was in daltons dalfons Dal tons handwriting hand writing whether the alleged warning was not utterly improbable in view of daltons dalfons Dal tons well known and frequently expressed intention not to resist arrest but the course of the official prosecutor in pleading fur for the defense instead of the prosecution showed how bow much of a trial was in progress the he pretended letter passed without question q estion it atia is the common opinion that the communication was not from dalton at a all but that it was manufactured as an excuse for tt the e murder if it was believed to ee be genuine there is no doubt that evidence would have been adduced that thatis it was in the hand writ ig of the deput ys victim it was a matter of general understanding that thai mr dalton had returned led from arizona whither he had previously fled with the avowed purpose of facing it out and taking the consequences of the charge against him chehad he bad repeatedly dic declared lared he be would not avoid akrep arrest the p purported letter was contrary tor his character fracter and declarations alq to he bogus As for gleasona gleasons Glea sons 14 testimony iby no importance is attached to that by the people of the south he is regarded there as a brute and unprincipled ruf filan his word there is 18 not worth a cent ills his unsupported statement goes for nothing so with thomp sons testimony in his bis own behalf A murderer will generally ue lie to save himself from punishment he swore that dalton had a 0 boy on the horse in front of him and that he be pulled up ul shortly and put the boy to the ground and that the horse had got on the lope before the fired yot not another witness testified to the story about the boy on the horse the falsehood was emphatically contradicted by colllns collins W dark clark who was close cloie to dalton when he was shot the object of thompsons Thomp sons apparent perjury was to co make it appear that tile the dime ime was longer thin than as testified between his bis call to halt and toe firing of the shot hit his claim that the gun went off accidentally or by inadvertence was also emphatically dis proved by a cloud of witnesses who saw him take deliberate aim at his victim the statements of those two ex deputies are therefore without value except to show their character and how much their word is worth we would not believe either of them on oath bonx 0 opinion pi nion about the letter coin coincides cide with that of the public it if it is still claimed to be genuine let jet it be compared with letters in the known and acknowledged handwriting of dalton let those who are familiar with his writing pronounce upon it and let disinterested ted persons make a fair comparison compa rigon and a just decision of f course this would not now affect the result but jr ic would have a bearing upon the plea of justification set u up for the murderer and adopted by t the e prosecutor who defended him from the legal consequences of his cowardly and bloodthirsty act we believe the letter to be a forgery and it will be so considered bythe public unless some proofs of its authenticity are produced its fabrication and acceptance in evidence without a test of its genuineness were steps in the direction of tile the whole course coarse pursued in this most shameful perversion and prostitution of justice |