Show MARTINS ACQUITTAL amazement t the faces of people who ki knew evv the facts of 0 poor john burtons tone elating slaying as they read eliat martin ie acquitted the verdict of the jury must stand it is la ian that it t shall so stand inviolable martin is i innocent of alt all offence so says the jury and eo so must the public say payer or bo be mulct ia in damages for slander or libel but the plain facts ought to be remembered some time if they of record people mill aill look back in amazement at tins this barbarous mode of jury jarv trial even as we look back in in astonishment thit that th it men in a darker ago age should have been acquitted of criminal charge simply because in personal et encounter counter in the linte lists they could overcome their accusers wo say now a how could our forefathers be so stupid As if lill skill with ill the tile lance or vigor with the tile bat battle tle ax wore ore any ony proof of honor or virtue A few decades hence our defendants mil will pay say what fools those old fossils were ere who thought themselves therose hes so m vise ise As if the verdict of twelve men picked up at random unused to weighs el hiew hm evidence were w ere any proof of tho the fads fats V I 1 alfred II 11 martin shot and killed john 11 II burton va without any apparent inciting cause or provocation on the night ahe hc day of may blay 1837 1897 lurton burton was a 1 oung young man of talent and high repute Nill without sout a known enemy on earth iio lie had a wife and babies to whom lie was ten deily defly devoted he ile was moral sober soter methodic methodical il and in n many respects a model on the fatal night at a late hour martin met him and Lin eying him bun to be engaged enji aped in some unlawful or di dishonorable le pursuit drove lim him to a livery stable at the point of a pistol there martin required burton to hold up his hands threatening at the time to kill him and almost while whilo a bystander b slander was vouching for burton burtons s respect respectability ability I 1 I 1 and begging martin not to sh shoot oot ho he discharged his pistol and burton ton fell tell dead this was not murder it was not even manslaughter it was a lawful and proper action so tim jury says but if jhb and similar lanes eases do Y not prompt the pt illic to v wipe ipe the infernal jury byster off the face of the land then the american public deserves to have justice utice continue to go lame and lilt as well as blind WHILE READ of the love teat feast between the czar and the kaiser reported this morning one may his admiration by considering the I 1 following ol lowing aman the many proofs of the str ined relations of germany ermany and russia is the fact that on the frontier pa patronized largely by soldiers often duplay ly placards saying hero llero no prussians are served vilh ith meat or drink and many of the shops whops in the laro large itus siau cities announce that no aerman brinan foods goods are sold there bradstreet Biad street bas an important note not e on the Thebo foreign reign corner in in iia tin the domestic corner ol 01 tho fume article ia is the slurp sharp corner that jaus your thumb 0 lien you are up op oain a 0 pot ot of deviled hAD |