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s H * « I CD » S3 W P O P I ft rt I I D QQ i CD H Q* P • (»■* • .i r-J-*0 • ^ i 8) CB lt;CD • © »1 » Q(P *lt;© ®PT. L. Marshall spent 14 years of his life on a locomoti ve engine. When he sees a train moving he knows itp rate of speed. He says the train that threw Chevalier into the air and finally dropped his mangled corpse onto the ground, sixty feet from the place where the engine struck him, was running at the rate of 30 miles per hour.Mr. John Dillon, at the paper mill, saw all the sickening details of the assassination. He says the train was moving at the rate of 20 to 25 miles per hour.There is no lack of testimony, if testimony is what is wanted, bat it seems in this case that the more testimony the people have the worse off they are.The officers seem to be like the bear hunter who abandoned the trail because it was getting utoo dam fresh.” It is net evidence that is wanted, bat i an officer to set in motion the machinery of the criminal law. Enforce the law and teach a lot of reckless and irresponsible trainmen that as-! sassination is an expensive pastimeand manslaughter a diversion thathas to be atoned for.The public seem to be bound hand * and foot. The railroads buy members [ of the legislature in the capital asj sheep are bought in the shambles, j Judiciary and state and county offi-| cials are silenced with passes, and the j citizens apparently thinking the case | is hopeless, look on in apathy.I Chevalier is a good old French! name. It reminds one of a little! French history that it would be well ! enough to look at just at this time.! Everybody knows it by heart. Mon-j seigeur the Marquis, in his coach and ! four horses went whirling by the pub-j lie fountain and the wheels crushed Ithe life out of Gaspard’s child. Gas-| pard was do vn in the mud and wet j howling over his dead child like a wild animal. Monseigneur the Marquis threw Gaspard a~ coin and inquired of the postillion if the horses j were injured. He threw another to | Defarge, and when this last one was J thrown back into the coach, Monseig-j neur the Marquis called the people J “dogs” and the people stood as cow-| ed and silent as the peeple of Law-j rence stand in the presence of the omnipotent corporation whose whirling drive wheels tossed into eternity a citizen of Lawrence, the old man. Chevalier. There is another truth that must be mentioned. Madam Defarge stood by silently knitting into her embroidery, in invisible characters the long roll that was checked off In the fatefnl and fatal days of the French revolution. * *
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Lawrence Weekly Record
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Fri, Jul 03, 1891
Page 5
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Lawrence P.
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