Show THE FORT DOUGLAS HOMICIDE elsewhere Elee where in NEWS will be found the result of the coroner la inquest which was instituted ot at fort douglas regarding the killing of the ex golater Le leonard buard the jurys curyto finding considered as a piece of nou non com literature of a legal stripe is is a masterpiece that is it tells everything that th the people knew beota but fails to enlighten them or the theoffice rt of thie the Is law 4 asto to the degree 1 ot of culpi brilty br bi mhd whether in n fact I 1 there hero is 16 any it at all it reads like a boroo recital of facts crytz tallying tall king in a suggestion suggest lon of somi josfin iff cati oo 00 for the authors of the killing the killing of at a civilian by a soldier ls is it at any time a subject of inquiry inq ulry and determination in with well understood rules it is necessary that this principle be kept in full view nall all the hinr time lest once losing sight eight of it it may escape us altogether the president of the united states Is com mander in chief of the army and nay navy and the governor of each state is the head of its militia system it would be impossible possible Ini for our institutions to put pdt t forth plamer plainer or mure more decisively that tha the civil dowl dominates lites the military aown power ther in fact the latter le is the caw crea ture attire not tha the peter peer and least of bill all WN the mik master of the former there can caa be no commissions hold held by an ah army office sive save such as aim bear the seal adif and to boirie uda iab with the authority of civic sovet even itt in time of war or otnes violence the highest hibb est ranking officer celt kiy may abt disobey orders from the duly dul constituted government boenit headquarters white being answerable thereto the freto for ali AR he d this illustrates the relation sh ehla p sufficiently how greatly la is the taking of life when the only p pre is a technical violation af or some rule the extreme penalty pe fialty pit for which could not bp be more than a lew dalip imprisonment at the matl and when to it all is added the fact that mhd offender could be arrested ar t d and ej nd held h e I 1 d with but very little trouble or delay thus lervick leav iBB such punishment 99 might be meet and proper to the authorities c constituted for fok that e it assumes a phase that ordinary language does nf t fit ft seems to be all at once and in one vesly transaction insubordination usurpation and murder we would riot not vre prejudge judge any case nor contribute cop contribute tribute toward a defendant la embarrassment by creating or assisting to create prejudice against him but when a rule of governmental conduct llovet ie overturned when a principle upon which all things else relating to the government are baad is set met aside and through such action a man not amenable to the extent of severe punishment by either the civil or military power is shot p de death aab it is not then the case came of thi the actors altogether it is our caie case it Is tb the case of everybody interested Interest dd in in the preservation of peace and order |