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secret, ami that is rbjht according to the Iron Valley Reporter! Away with such sickly sentimentalism. True, iu the case of murder, the victim caunot be restored. But is the object of punishment nothing more than restitution? Is it not also to terrify evil doersâr Is it not also to protect society? By assisting to conceal a murder, vve assi-t in turning murderers loose upon society, and to that extent, lend our influence against the satety of society from their crimes. By concealing one murder, we may contribute our influence to the perpetration of a dozen murders, lly concealiug one murder, we may in addition, awaken the suspicion that somebody else than the guilty one committed the deed, and lend our influence to the arrest, trial, condemnation, and execution of a person entirely innocent of murder, or any other crime. Concealing a murder, after the tact, is no trifling offense. If there is no law to punish such an offence in Ohio, Ohio with all her law has one too few. Moses.
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Canal Dover Dover Weekly Argus
Canal Dover, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 23, 1880
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