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Show .- MURDER TOOK ANGEL SHAPE OF JUSTIOE. Commenting editorially on tho Langley murder case, in which the nineteen-year-old wife was treated favorably oy?sthe jury and released on $100 bond, which the jurors themselves put up, the Sacramento Sac-ramento Bee says under the above head: i. "Thou shalt not killl" saith the Lord. And witter that commandment, com-mandment, Mrs. Annie Langley of San Francisco is guilty of a crime. So she is under the statutes of the slate of California. But no jurj- will ever convict her of any offense. And let os hope the Christ will look leniently upon her. She is but 19 years of age. She had been married but fifteen months From the very first her husband abused and beat her, while he spent in drink all the money he could force from her. Lately she has been a typewriter in the office of the Langfeld Drug company. Still he drank,i and loafed, and beat her. On Tuesday night, dressed in his best clothes and drunk, he came to their home and ordered his food. It did not suit him. lie abused his wife and threw a protesting woman out of the room; then beat poor Anna and left the house. The next day the wife hunted him up, called him out of a saloon and begged him to try to be a man saying she would do anything for him if he would would work her fingers to the bone for him |