Show worse than the new now orleans affair seattle post i I 1 discussion of the grand jury report on the new orleans mase massacre acre has recalled a judicial fulmination on one bt bf I 1 the moat most horrible exhibitions of 0 1 popular frenzy that has ever been witnessed in the united stated states this deed of mob violence vio lencs occurred in st louis louls mo fifty six years ago hammond sheriff of the county was mu murdered r by a negro hora horn be he wag was conveying to jail fhe the negro waa was ca captured and lodged in jail and there waa was no room for doubt that justice would be epe speedily edily meted oot out to him hut but the sherler had been noted for hla his kindness ot of i I 1 heart and for or bla his humane humans treatment ai of prisoners committed to tile charge I 1 and in all ecta was exceedingly popular beloved to an extent that rarely falls to the lot of a public official these facts coupled with a common prejudice against negro criminate criminals and with the further tact fact that the people had been wen but recently alarmed by bv the famous abr threatened L t bened r negro levolt ander the leadoff lead of J john ohna A murrell SI arrell caused the populace to be in tensely excited and furious I 1 therefore aa as in the ne new orleans I 1 case that attacked the jail in overwhelming wh numbers meeting wee tingas as might be expected but flight reale residence tence from the subordinates ordinates of the murdered sheriff and seizing the negro they took him out upon a common at that time west of the city but now in the heart of the fashionable residence district and tins tying him to a tree deliberately roasted him over a slow w fire which from tram tima time to time w was a a quen ched in order that his agonies es I 1 in might ight be b prolonged this barbarous 1 act was approve approvingly angly witnessed by tho thousands wands ot men women and chil dren many macy of them 0 of f the tile beat beest society I 1 on em paneling the next grand I 1 thereafter the ju judge dge of the st louis I 1 criminal court reter to the affair i I 1 lu I 1 I 1 I 1 in bla his charge has thus drew the distinction in his hs mind between acts of individual violence aid and those ol 01 a mob alft 41 lf on the other 01 her bund hand bald said dads janlee iLaw leM the destruction of the murderer of JI ammond was the act as I 1 have said of the many of the multitude in the ordinary y souse of 0 these word ncik t the he act 0 of numerable and ascertainable malefactors bat but of 0 congregated gre green gated ted thousand thousands seized upon and impelled by that mysterious metaphysical and almost electric frenzy which aich in all ages and nations has hurried on the infinite multitude to deeds of death and destruction then I 1 aay sat act not at all in the matter the cabe then your juns juris action hc tion it is beyond tho the reach of human law i this although the individuals who lit it the ahe faeta and from time to time subdued the flames were not only 1 numerable and ascertainable but I 1 wera gerein in fact few in number cumber and well known Com comparios oK the emphatic ja lagUia gulizo ep of this charse charge under buch such with ith the gua guarded crded and qualified terms in which the kew new orleans grand jury referred to the acts of men who were disguised and perhaps not recognizable and the two d documents Q indicate a very decided ad va acet in official regard tor for tho the pro printies prie i ldes ties itis pretty sate safe to say that no con not even tammany hall would woud in this day and generation invest with the judicial ermine a person entertaining tho the ideas advanced by judda lawless or it by chance chanc there ethere debould ild be a judge entertaining guch such it ia Is pretty C certain ertain that he would not care to utter them this TWO jc charge bare shows that civilization has his made headway |