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.'j • • . ■ • * ...CHARITON, IOWA.Wednesday, May I9lh, 1875.MORE MOB LAW.A MAN IX STOIIY COUNTY IJBUTAII.Y '•? MUKDKBICI) IIY A MOW.The State Jier/lster of the 11 Lh inst. contained the. particulars of the hanging of a man in Story county by a mob. It was a brutal, fiend ish and disgraceful nITair,that should call, for the stoniest possible measures from the authorities. Wo condense the following as giving something of a history of the affair: Early Sunday morning, (May Oth) coroner, Mr. C. , P. Pol inson,\vas notified that Mr. George N. Kirkman had been hanged by a mob, at his residence, in Indian township, the night previous. The Coroner cm-paimellc.l a jury and repaired to the scene of the tragedy ami proceeded to hold an inquest. They found the body badly bruised and mangled,murdering him in the uttercst. cold blood and ferocity, without phanco of defciise—a ' cowardice which shames manhood*and mankind, and. puts a stignia and infamy upon our State nnd our people, which not even the prompt arrest, conviction, and punishment of tho twenty .murderers can cither efface, palliate, or excuse.Only one thing in decency remains. That is, for the State to unite with Story county in forrct-ting out those Vigilantes, arresting, and punishing them. Gov. Carpenter may be expected to display at once to tho last degree of its powerthe strong arm of the State. As an Executive of a State in whilt;which mob law and mob murder have risen so defiantly and so alarmingly, he has a plain duty to perform which lie is not the mail to shirk.Join H \ lrtliPi* on War and the Chiu c'scs,The Poston Globe publishes thefollowing letter of Mr. John G.Whittier, written to his friend, liev.•J. 15. Miles, P. P., general secretaryof the association for the reformand codification of the law of nations :\ . ........... 1.1 til. ?»re
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Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa, US
Wed, May 19, 1875
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