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Show 5 fn THE OUTRAGE ON MR. DICKSON. ! l The Church papers are busy just now . trying to make the public believe that , the dastardly assault committed on Mon- ( J ; - day night on the person of U. S. District i j Attorney Dickson was the sole work of (j5 "a hot-lieaded youth of sixteen years" , ,( !' Hugh Cannon and that he alone should I be held responsible for it. If our memory I .;j I ,. serves us, these same Church papers, a I ;; ; ' little while back, also tried to make the : ' public believe that Deputy Marshal Col-Ij' Col-Ij' . I'm maliciously corraled "a widely-known I j and universally respected young man" !;; named McMurrin in the Social Hall alley-I alley-I 1 way, and there "foully murdered" him. Ill They lied like horse-thieves then ; they ; j are repeating the dose now. J , It is conceded by all who have watched I the course of Mr. Dickson while dis- -j charging his duties here as Prosecuting ; Attorney, that he is one of the most able ' i ' lawyers that ever appeared in the courts i of Utah. That being so, and having had ! . striking ocular demonstration of the circumstances cir-cumstances attending the carrying out of I the brutal work, is it probable that he has I so lost the head which those wretches were so anxious to enlarge or to completely. ' . knock off his shoulders,' it makes no difference which that he recklessly charges this man and that man with : j having entered into a conspiracy to inur- !der him? Hardly. Mr. Dickson, we opine, has a pretty clear idea of the nature na-ture and amount of evidence needed to j fasten upon the guilty parties the crime if, with which he charges them, and in , f j view of the fact that he does allege va ' j conspiracy to murder him, we are inclined ' I to believe that he knows better what he ,, is talking about than do the characterless i scribes of the Church press, even suppos- ; ! - ihg them to be honest and truthful in what they say. The matter will shortly receive the at- ' tention of the courts, and in the mean- ( ; time the Church papers wifl doubtless follow in the path marked out by the illustrious Ananias, regardless of what j facts may be patent to everybody who cares to look them in the face. |