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PAGE a0OWtS MELVIN BEN J, □. JOHNSONMELVIN JOHNSON,PUBLISHERS.SATURDAY MORNING, JU LY 31, 1915EDITORIAL NOTES.Caroline county, so unfortunate in thefacl that within our borders there occur* red such a horrible crime as that for which Wish Sheppard is soon to die on the gallows, is still to be comforted and congratulated on the celerity and very satisfactory nlanner witb which the shocking event has been met. The efficiency of our Court and our officers in this in. stance, noted so widely in the press, will have a good effect and will not be forgotten for years. Such swiftness of legal justice ought to bring terror enough to the hearts of even such brutish beasts as Wish Sheppard, and it is hoped that such a crime as his will never occur again in Caroline. The circumstanceand publicity of the punishment of the ‘ scaffold ought to be known to every nne of bis type, whose presence in any com-munity is a menace and a curse—a menace and a curse which when known will not be allowed to long remain. The red blood of the Caucasian bas ever demanded the life of the perpetrator for sucb defilement of womanhood, and this is the fiat which’nothing can ever change. But .it is far better for the public when the law can make prompt disposition of such vile cumberers of the earth.immediate and transitor) Nothing is truer than States must some day, w cltement and tumult sha sit in judgment on its ov this crucial period in the Jt will be welt then especially so forthe causlt; in all its highest aspirati if in quiet self-examlnat shall find no serious flan If it is going to be a pe this should be its great a it must be worthy of lt;h confidence of those ar would piomote reconcilia good will. Under such the nation enjoys there is why it should not in due position to offer its neigh' far more valuable to t transitory sympathy some sans crave, demand or woWASHINGTON rChairman McCombs, of the DemoSecretary Redfield, of t of Cammerce, who was a Y., on his vacation, has g to take personal chatge mint’s investigation of th aster. Soliciior Thurmai partment, armed with all laliug to the Eastland, lei the Secretary in seeking it tragedy. President Wit returned to Cornish, N. h communication with Seer about the catastrophe aPresident’s approval. S field will make every effo who, if anyone, was to fc
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Denton Journal
Denton, Maryland, US
Sat, Jul 31, 1915
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