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CGr* Keeny is to be hung in Visalia 011 the Ttli of March, for the munbr of Levi Yk teller. Tile Deltait ft is to his case as follows:i here is a feeling in the community that the wrong man had Inn sentence commuted for the niunh r of Levi 1 letcher. Il Hart participated in the murdi r (and there seems hut litth doubt that the linding of the jury was correct) it was without provocation and tor a most groveling purpose. On the onitrai v, keeny had been deeply wrong* d. His family bad blt;cii broken up and his childn n disgraced, if we give him credit for being a man of line t ling wo will have no occasion to wondlt; r that even lift itself hadbecome a burden. We cannot excuse murd« r ; but there is a class of wrongs which almost universally male wrecks of the men who endure them ; and if the law can make insanity of drunkenness, one would think it no greater stretch of construction to accord something to the state of a man’s mind who receives the jeer of having a bastard thrust upon him forsupport.
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Bakersfield Kern County Weekly Courier
Bakersfield, California, US
Sat, Jan 25, 1873
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