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Show LAST MURDER AT HIGHLAND BOY DISTRICT The last murder in the Highland Boy district occurred a few. weeks ago when a guard, recently discharged from the Salt Lake police, in connection connec-tion with the shooting of a returned soldier who had gone to the rescue of a woman, shot and killed John Morgan, Mor-gan, a miner of that place. This murder came about when Morgan Mor-gan went to the place of Caddie Staker to follect a bill. In this matter mat-ter a controversy arose and the officer offi-cer took a hand and struck Morgan. A fight ensued and Morgan - was too much for the guard, and when he saw that he was going to be worsted he whipped out a pistol and shot Morgan, who died some weeks lated from the wound. ' The murderer has been released without punishment because he bad only killed a man who was causing a woman some trouble. At the hearing In Salt Lake things were patched over so that as little trouble as possible would , result from the matter. ' It seems that it is not much of a crime to kill a man if he is molesting a house ol this kind. While it was cold murder and under the law one of the most serious crimes in the whole category it is passed up with the view of the matter that the less said the better. Human life is very cheap when some decide that It should be that way and those who ordinarily cry out for law enforcement and the upholding of the government have folded their hands and allowed the whole scandal to be closed with as little formality as possible, thus bringing the law into general contempt. It's not so bad to kill an ordinary man If you have the right element behind be-hind you and you can have the whole thing hushed up if you use wisdom in the matter of who you serve. So let It be with Morgan. He was in line to be killed and he passed away at the hands of a man who is said to be a go-getter go-getter in the line of shooting things up, but he was on the side that . protects pro-tects in such killings and so he is safe from the rigors of the law. Getting off so easy it may not be , long before he will take another obance. It is said that after a killer gets started he likes the game and If he Is properly protected he can put away a great number and get away with It and the more he kills the better he likes it. Were all the facts in this case brought out in court It might be that the man was Justified in the killing, but for the protection of the public the case ought to have been tried In the district court and all the facts presented pre-sented to the Jury. That would have had a better effect on the public, but under the system In operation gunmen must be protected. So let it be forgotten. |
