Show TiE fJIlm 10mCIJ enllo or 101101 Ihnl h hc QueHon 1 mion DIMOCIUT In your issue of the Id Inslanl an article appears headed t U II McUndos Acrion of the iill more Homicide Conlradicted in which ho leeks lo make out that willful and malicious falsehoods have been resorted I to Let us FCC Charge ITho man Speed was not a Gentile etc Iiuiiir shows lhat ho was baptised at thu ago of 8 jears or thereabouts according lo custom hut that I c7 ho diet I fo subsequently 1 I aimialo with them When ppokon to on tho subject sub-ject ho said lie did not know an 1 did I not care Now how much of asaintwasho Tho lan H H Mcliride w as brought up In tho church ho is an elder of tho same according lo Iho i books jet ho signs himself holln tl tI5 self A jcnlllo Dcmocr it f If tho other was not a Ocnllle by what traces ol reasoning can his writer bo one Cliargo 2Tho murderer w as not lieu ben Mclindo but Hciibcn A McBride Granted It was want of knowledge Initials being seldom used except when signing ono s name therefore not general gener-al v known Charge 1 ido Awake seeks to heap odium upon him bj resorting to newspaper scandal l cognizant too of Iho fact that the 31Ise not able to reply I Wide Awake Is not cognizant of the lads inability did not know his age Tlio writer admits tho language used Where is tho scandal resorted to except in Iho act itself Does n le become odious simplj i In being i published I lire lt bfrui r g spcctivo i of its trulh or I If RO what wretches theso editors and publish cis aro Let us abolish them at once Wo can Ihell sit down m blissful lyio ranco of tho weal or woe of tho world and I retreat into tlio barbaric past Chargo 4 Truth perverted in relation rela-tion to fapecd and tlio father of the ny oung lad I tallies substantial with Iho statement of tho dung man as well as that of tho coroners jurj onl It is not so length IIo also elenies the slate mcnt that Mr Mclindo wn found In Ins brothers stable that ho surrendered nl his brothers house At what place ho surrendered maj nevei bo known for certain Thoso who itched the1 pro recdmgs saj ho was met h tho sheriff coming from Iho stable if such it ell bo called towards tho house Upon tho whole there is lot a fact in relation to tho murder of the man Speed nor tho cause that provoked i conlra dieted I docs not seem possible that tho mal whose sicnaturo it bears could have penned i It looks moro lko tr > mg to keep the maier before Iho public in order to keep up the excitement against tho murderer or trung to bring out other Irregularities of tho past lifo of McBride Steps to that end aro being taken bj those inlcicslcd in proving his past character They will bo as interested in that as his friends aro to prove Ins Mrtucs at the trial Wido Awake has no personal pique in tho matter and has only aimed to tell tho truth and tint will bo told w ithout fear or favor VIC Aw VKI IlriMonr April 14th 1880 |