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NOT AHSIKIMJ.The rapid succession of murder* aud the delays aud uncertainties of the visitation of penalties upon the guilty, j 11 Chicago, have been productive of an unsatisfactory state of popular feeling In that city. There have been some grounds for the feeling that the courts seem to he running for the benefit of the murderous scoundrels rather than for the protection of innocent people. This contempt for the proceeding of the courts lias been Intensified by the absurd, we might say, the infamous praetheof letting criminals go on easy bail and shutting innocent witnesses up in filthy cells with human devils. This practice Is an insult to the agt* in which we live, and an outrage upon its victims.This state of feeling was rendered still more dangerous by two simultaneous events in Chicago on Monday evening—the granting of a supers* de-(ts in the case of Rafferty for the murder of policeman O'Mera, condemned to l c hung on the fourth of October, and the wanton, unprovoked murder of the young man James McWilliams, a compositor in the Tim*8 office, by a set of murderous villains, whoare undoubtedly well known to the city police, and who ought long since to have been put in away to earn an honest living out of range of tlielr innocent victims.However censurable may be the spirit that justifies tHe rapid proceed lugs in Judge Lynch's court, the causes that Und to the actions in that court can not he neglected with impunity. If the fault is in the laws, let them be obliterated; if in the court-, let them take seasonable warning
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Bloomington Weekly Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Wed, Oct 02, 1872
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