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of the candidates are correct.In this election it will not take many spurious tickets to change the result, and finally remember that “eternal vigilance is the price of victory.tioranyreclt;moithoCORRE6POH DEN €E.Editor Patbiot : At the request of many friends I will give an account of the part played by W. B. Walls, in the case of the State of Indiana vs. Samuel L Duncan, for the murder of John Beal, on the 23d day of June, 1873, in the county of Boone and State of Indianarydisiporasphaihesio:cursonblethoqult;thenoito 1haian]neshalha)to * taxthedrsIf i veaanlt;thethein ’« the preW. B. WALLS AS A PBOSECUTNG ATTORNEY.Who will vote for him when it is so generally believed that he sold himself^and the State in the Duncan case? Section 17, of Article 1, of our State Constitution is as follow s:“Offenses other than murder or I in e treason shall be bailable by sufficient | ha surities, murder or treason shall not be bailable when the proof is evident or presumption strong.On the day above mentioned, Samuel I. Duncan, in cold blood, murdered John Beal, an old man, near Lebanon, Ind.The evidence in thi» case was overwhelming against Duncan before the Coroner’s July, and they found that Beal came to his death by blows inflicted with a piece of timber in the hands of Duncan. Duncan was arrested and taken before a Justice of the Peace, and the proof was so lar; evident and the presumption so Bo strong, that there was but one means onlt; of escape possible, and that was, get $81 him admitted to bail so that he might s. ■ flee his country and escape the just iff? punishment that awaited him for the ehi crime of murder. amThe council for the defendant aB waived an examination and moved \y] the court to admit him to bail. The ho! Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, W. B. pa Walla, stood by and did not inform to the Justice that it would be a viola- we tion of the constitution to bail him, at but admitted and consented that it tipwas a L' Liable case, and the guilty 0jmurderer was admitted to bail in the small sum of $1,200.The proof against Walls is evident tyand the presumption strong, he knew tb«that murder was not bailable, he alsoknew that a bond given in such acase would be null and void and ygcould not be collected•nlt;After Duncan was admitted to bail, anlt; he of course had no bad feelings to do] ward Walls, his prosecutor, but em yOX ployed Walls to go home with him ab( to take the acknowledgment of some deeds. Duncan on the same day that he was admitted to bail, told me (the Constable in the case) that he (Duncan) was to pay Walls a fee in the ease, and that Walls had done a good thing for him, (Duncan). Duncan also told Marshal Dill the samething. In a few days, Duncan fled to parts unknown. The term of court came on and the Grand Jury found a bill against him for murder in the first degree, but of course there was no Duncan here to try.What security will the public have should such a man as Walls be elected. There is no office more important to the public than Prosecuting Attorney, and the recipiant of it ahould be a above reproach.W M Ti vwr,a -enanlt;muwocasmolowPeiBaytermefutpO£retelelt;hasancof i Jut 1amBothii
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Lebanon Patriot
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 09, 1873
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NA, 24 Feb 2019
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