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I jrrsr VOL. XIU PRESIDENTS SPEECH Meets With Great Ovations at All Stopping Places. A BIG SPEECtl IN MILWAUKEE. He Addresses the Wisconsin Legislature and Afterwards Speaks to a Much Larger Audience. Milwaukee. Special. ? President Roosevelt was the guest of the Milwaukee Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association at a banquet at the Plankiugton House Friday night, the occasion being the climax of the day. 1'he President sat in the centre of a long table with other guests of honor. At his immediate right, sat United States Senator Quarles, while E. A. VVadhains, president of the Milwaukee Merchants' ami Manufacturers Ast/ae.iation and toastmaster of the oe% r as ion was seated at ills left. After the banquet had been served. Toastmaster VVadhains introduced President Roosevelt who responded to the toast "The President of the United States." The President took occnsion to give hi3 views on the subject of trusts. Mr. Roosevelt's speech in part follows : Mr. Toaslmaster. Gentlemen: I wish to speak to you on the question of th*e control ami regulation of those great corporations which are popularly, although rather vaguely, known as trusts; dealing mostly with what has actually been accomplished in the way of legislation and in the way of enforcement of legislation during the past eighteen mouths, the period covering the two sessions of ihe Fifty-seventh Congress. At the cutset I shqll ask you to remember lliat I do not approach the subject either from the standpoint of those who speak of themselves as anti-trust 3r auti corporation people, n<>r yet from the standpoint of those who are fond of denying the existence of evils in the trusts, or who apparently proreed upon the assumption that if a corporation is large enough it can do wrong. OBSTRUCTION OF F.IG CORPORA TIONS NOT DESIRED. I think I speak for the great majority of the American people when I ?ay that we aro not in the le?i3t tgainst wealth as such, whether Individual or corporate: that we merely ... iu nnv auuse or corporate or combined wealth corrected and remedied; that we do not desire the Abolition or destruction of big corporairons. but. o ntho contrary, recognise 'hem as being in many cases efficient ?conomic instruments, the results of in incvltal le process of economic evolution. and only desire to see them ogu'.atcd an.l controlled so far as may be necessary to subserve the public <ood. We should ho false to the historic principles of our government if we discriminated, either by legislation or administration, either for or j gainst a man of either his wealth or jis poverty. There is no proper place 11 our society cither for the rich man who uses the power conferred by his riches to enable him to oppress and wrong his neighbors, nor yet for the demagogic agitator who, instead of attacking abuses as all abuses should oe attacked wherever found, attracks property, attacks prosperity, attacks men of wealth, as such. wheth?r they he good,or bad. attacks corporations whether'they do well or ill. and seeks, .11 a spirit of ignorant rancor, to overthrow the very foundations upon which rest our national well-being. In consequence of the extraordinary industrial changes of the last halfrentury and notably of the last two or three decandes, changes due mainly to the rapidity and complexity of our industrial growth, ve are confronted with problems which in their present ^hapo were unknown to our forefathers. Our great prosperity with its Accompanying concentration of popu .niun iuju or weaun. its extreme spceiillzation of facilities, ami its development of giant industrial Isadora, has 'irought much good and some evil, Jiid it ic aa foolsh to ignore the good is wilfully to blind ourselves to the svll. REMEDIES FOR A PORTION OF THE EVIL. The evil has been partly in inevltnlde accompaniment of the social changes, and where this is the case it can be wired neither by law or by the administration of the law, the only remedy lying in the alow change o! character and of economic environment. But for a portion of the evil, at least. we think that remedies can he found. We know well the clanger ot false remedies, and we are against all violent, radical and unwise change, But we holleve that by proceeding slowly, yet resolutely, with good sense and moderation, and also with a tlrin dote: mlnation not to l.e swerved from our course either by foolish clamor or by nay base or sinister influence we can accomplish much for the betterment of eruditions. FOItMEK SPEECHES RECALLED. Nearly t to years ago. sneaking at the State Fair in Minnesota. 1 said: "It is. probably true that the large majority of the fortunes that now exist in this country have been amassed not by injuring our people, but n.3 an incident to the conferring of great benefits upon the community, ami this, no matter what may have been the conscious purpose of those amassing them. There is bnt#the scantiest justification fci most of the outcry against the men of wealth as such; and It ought to be unnecessary to state thnt any appca which directly, or Indirectly leads tc .,1 jjii: OR! F suspicion nnd hatred among ourselves, which tends to limit opportunity, and therefore to shut the door of success against poor men of talent, and. finally. which entails the possibility of lawlessness and violence, is an attack upon the fundamental properties of American citizenship. Our interests are at bottom common; in the long run w? go up or go down together. Yet more and more it is evident that the State, and If necessary the nation, has got to possess the rlcht of onnorwIoUn '" control as regurds the great corporations which arc its creatures; particularly as regards the great business combinations which derive a portion of their importance from the existence of some monopolistic tendency. The right should be exercised with caution and self-restraint: but it should exist, so that it may bo invoked if the need arises." I?ast fall in speaking at Cincinnati I said: "The necessary supervision nnd control in which I firmly believe as the only method of eliminating the real evils of the trusts, must come through wisely and cautiously framed legislation, which shall aim in the first place to give deilnlte control to some sovereign over the great corporations, and which shall bo followed, when once this power has been conferred, l.v a system giving to the government the full knowledge which is the essential lor satisfactory action. Then when this knowledge?one of the essential features of which is proper publicity?has been gained, what turther steps of any kind are necessary can be taken with | the confidence born of the possession of power to deal with the subject, and of a thorough knowledge of what should and can be done in the matter. We need additional power, and we need knowledge . . . Such legislation?whether obtainable now or obtainable only after a constitutional amendment?should provide for a reasonable supervision, the most prominent feature of which at first should be publicity; that Is. the making public. both to the government authorities and to the people nt large, the es dcuiiui iucLs in wnteh the public is concerned. This would give us exact knowledge of many points which are now not only in doubt but the subject of fierce controversy. Moreover, the mere fact of the publication would cure some very grave evils, for the light of day is a deterrent to wronkdoing. SUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL SALT COMPANY. In November, 1902. the Attorney General directed that a bill for an injunction be filed in tho United States Circuit Court at San Francisco against the Federal Salt Company?a corporation which had been organized under the laws of an Eastern State, but had I its main office and principal place of j business in California?and against a i number of other companies and pert pons constituting what was known as the salt trust. These injunctions were \ to restrain the execution of certain contracts between the Federal Salt j Company and the other defendants, by which the latter agreed neither to i'uj port. buy. or sell salt, except from and to the Federal Salt Company, and not o engage or assist in the production of salt west of the Mississippi river during the continuance of such conIt roots. As the result of those agreements the price of salt had been advanced about 409 per cent. A tem1 porary injunction order was obtained, which the defendants asked the court I to modify on the prnnml .....i j trust law had no application to coni tracts for purchases and sale3 within a State. The Circuit Court overruled 1 this contention and sustained the ! government's position. This practically J concluded the case, and it is undert stood that in consequence the Federal j Salt Company is about to bo dissolved i and that no further contest will he 1 made. A SUCCESSFUL EFFORT. The above is a brief outline of the I most important steps, legislative and j administrative, taken during the past : eighteen months in the direction of | solivng. so far as at present it scents practicable by national legislation or j administration to solve, what we call j the trust problem. They represent e ! sum of very substantial achievement, j They represent a successful effort to ! devise any apply real remedies; an efI fort which so far succeeded because it was ntade not only with resolute purpose and determination, but also in a spirit of common sense and justice, as far removed as possible front rancor, 1 hysteria, and unworthy demagogic appeal. In the same spirit the laws will continue to he enforced. l\ot only is the legislation recently enacted effective. t.?t i~ ? * m my juugnicni u was tinpract table lo attempt more. Nothing of value is to he attempted from ceaseless agitation for radical and extreme legislation. The people may wisely, and with confidence, await the result? which are reasonably tc be expected from the impartial enforcement of the laws which have recently been placed upon the statute books. Legislation of a general .and Indiscriminate character would be sure to fail, cither because it would involve all interests in a common ruin, or because it wouid i e.ot really reach any evil. We have ndeavorrd to provide a discriminat ing adaptation of the remedy to the real mischief. ALLEGED REMEDIES TOO DRASTIC Many of the alleged remedies advocated are of the unpleasantly drastic type which seeks to destroy the disease . by killing the patient. Others are so Obviously futile that it is somewhat liilficult to treat them seriously or as being advanced in good faith. High i among the latter I place the effort to reach the trust question by means or i the tariff. You can. of course, put a.? . end to the prosperity of the trusts by putting an end to the prosperity of the L nation; but the price for such action . seems high. The alternative is to do I exactly what has been done during the > life of the Congress which has Just 1 mi: ORT MILL, S. C., WEI rlospd?that is. to endeavor, not to de stroy corporations. but to regulate them with a view of doing away with whatever is of evil in them and of making them subserve the public use. The law is not to be administered in the interest of the poor man as such, nor vet in the in^p^es^ of ri.-u .i-. as such, but in the interest of the lawabiding man. rich or poor. We are no more against organizations of capital han against organizations of labor. vVe welcome both. demanding ouiy that each shall dc right and shall remember its duty to the republic. Such a course, we consider not merely a benefit to the poor man. We do no man an injustice when we require him to obey the law. On the contrary, if he is a man whose safety and well-bi ing depend in a peculiar degree upon the existence of the spirit of law an order, we aie rendering him the greatest service when we require him to 1 himself au exemplar of that spirit. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many ATatters of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. Down In Dixie. Apprehension is felt for the fruit crop of North Georgia. Will Harris, the notorious barn burner and all around outlaw, of Charlotte, N. C., was captured in Norfolk, Va. A nephew of Senator Latimer, of South Carolina, shot and seriously wounded his teacher on April 1st. Further argument was heard in the Southern Paeiiic Union Pacific case, at Nashville. Tenn. Richmond (Va.) hanks were tb" fiist to offer bonds for refund under Secretary Shaw's circular. Dr. I'rie, acting Surgeon (leneral of the Navy, received a dispatch from the commander of the receiving ship Franklin at Norfolk, that the cases of diphtheria among the crew was well in hand and there had been no new cases within the last 48 hours. It is proposed to form cotton-mill company at Steplienville. Texas, and Upshur Vincent is interested, lie is now endeavoring to interest capital, and is also desirous of corresponding with manufacturers of cotton-mill machinery. The surviving soldiers who served under Gens. Taylor and Scott in Mexico in 1S46 and 1S47. are invitea i>. ho present at the thirty-seventh national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in San Francisco next August. The pension rolls show that 000 dwell on the Pacific coast. IVu* managers hope to attract nC least 400 of them to the reunion, believing that it will be the last they will ever attend. At The National Cnp'.tal. Associate Justice Alexander 15. i Intrnor. of the District of Columbia Court, will retire May 31. The District Commissioners decided to enforce an anti-expectoration regulation. William Johnson, a negro ex-polisernan. was held for the grand jury, charged with shooting at two policemen. The value of building operations in March was $6t>3.373. At The North. Secretary Root made a speech on tariff revision, before the Home Market Club, of Hoston. Horses attached to a carriage containing Mrs. William MeKinley ran away in Canton, Ohio, but no one was injured. Could interests have purchased an old Pennsylvania charter giving sweeping privileges, which may be used, it is reported, to gut the Wabash into New York. The flood situation has changed little. Greenville, Miss., and Yazoo City being partially under water. One death is reported. The heavy registration for the municipal election in Cincinnati is s?aid to he favorable to the election of M. E. Ingalls, Democrat, for Mayor. A London dispatch says: "Referee Pillsbury has decided the sixth game in the inter-university game chess match in favor of England. This gives the match to the English players." James R. Keene was reported to have called on Union Pacific striking shopmen to nid him in showing that that road controls the Southern Pacific. A verdict of not guilty was rendered in the case of Elmer Collins, accused of wife murder at Georgetown, Del. A London dispatch says that it is officially announced that King Edward and Queen Alexandria will visit Ireland in July, or August, of this year. A meeting of Jewish rabbis was held in New York to devise ways to raise the $500,000 wanted for tlft Isaac M. Wise memorial fund. Importations of leaf tobacco at New York are being closely watched to prevent loss to the Government on duties. Pretty Hard. It la pretty hard for a man to keep on being a pessimist when a beautifu1 woman looks up into his eyes and tell./ him she is just awfully interested in his work.?Chicago Record-Herald. * ll : )NES1)AY, APRIL 8, 1! NO MORE INJUNCTION Judge Adams \Yithdraws His Famous Restraining Order WABASH MEN MAY NOW STRIKE The Court Find* the Statement That the rien Arc Satisfied Is Not to Ih Credited. St. Louis. Special.?'The injun tiou issued March 3, by Judge FInter 15. Adams, of the United States district eourt. at the instance of the Wabash Railroad officials to restrain the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Firemen from ordering a strike on that system, was dissolved Wednesday in a decision handed down by Judge Adams, a week after the hearing of arguments for and against the removal of the legal obstacle. While no one will express an opinion as to the next probable move on either side, remarks dropped indieat' that every effort will be made to effect a settlement and avert a strike. But if a settlement shall not be effected, the understanding seems to he general that a strike is sure to result. At Wabash headquarters it was stated that amicable adjustment of the controversy is hoped lor. The same sentiment was expressed at the hotels, where are quartered the few representatives of the officials of the trainiucnt and firemen now in the city. Counsel for both sides spent the afternoon in conference, but no agreement was reached. Judge Adams announced that court would be in session and retain jurisdiction of the case, if desired, so that in the event of any molestation of or interference with, inter-State commerce or the mail service, all its lawful powers may be invoked to restrain Hie same, with the confident assurance that they will he fearlessly and effectively exercised. The temporary injunction was granted by Judge Adams on allegations made by officials of the Wabash system that, the defendants w -re eonspir ing to interfere with inter-State traffic and in the transmission of United States mails. Judge Ajjatns in his declsion says the provisional restraining order was made without notice to the defendants, under tiie stress of the facts disclosed by the hill and was fully authorized by section 71S, Revised Statutes of the I'nited States, and was Imperatively demanded by the general principles of equity jurisprudence recognized and enforced in many similar cases in the United States and England, and many authorities warranting tne provisional 1 straining order in question in eases of , mspiracies to interfere with inter-rft-.te commerce and otherwise arc cited in sapport of this last proposition. Within the time allowed hv the restraining order the defendants d"lj appeared and file 1 their sworn answer denying the alleged conspiracy in all its phases and particularly denying rny purpose to inter'i with inter-State commerce or the mails of the i'n ?' ; States, and especially denying 11;at th. employs were satisfied with wages and conditions of their service and denying tiie practice of any and nil coercion or false representations to bring about a strike; avering that the only purpose of the present defendants in eon stilting to a strike was to better th< condition of their members who wrrc in the employment of the railroad !>y the exercise of their undoubt- .1 right to peacefully withdraw from such service until such time as their demands of wages .etc.. should be concede 1. The court, after fully considering a'! the proof, finds that the statements ol the complaint to the effect that the employes were satisfied with their wages and conditions of service ar? not supported, irrespective of the question whether the men or the con ..iittee of brotherhood representing them first suggested the increase of wa *e and change of rules, the employer themselves at and for a long time ; . : to the filing of the hill of complain: were dissatisfied with their wage-- and conditions of service, and a real diffe. enec of opinion existed between the railroad and a huge majority of its employes, members of the brother 1UUU3. wun reaper t to their wages end that the defendants as officer and committers of the brotherhoods were fuilv authorized l>oth by reason of their official relation to their members and also by direct written authority to represent tncin in tne clTort to secure higher wages and change conditions of service and the proposed strike insiead of being officially ordered by defendants was .a result of the vote of the employes acting without coercion and directly authorzing the same. The court further finds after a full examination of the evidence that the charge of conspiracy to interfere with the inter-State commerce of the United States or the mail service of the United States, is not sustained. Crew Rescued. Cape Henry. Va.. Special.?The three? masted schooner Benjamin Ru*:s dl, Capt. Cranmer, with lumber from Bogne Inlet. N. C.. for New Hnv n. Conn., went ashore Sunday, one mile south of Creed's Hill life-saving station. Her crow of five men were t.ii; u off in breeches buoy. Her deck load will be taken off. Oifcrs $S0,000. Roston, Special?The Congregational Educational Society received word from Br. Persons, of Chicago, that he had made an offer of $r?9,(K)0 ns c. gift to Rollins College. Winter Park, Fla., provided the college shall raise 000 additional. Rollins College is aided by the Congregational Education Society. 103. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL Flna Ginghams Suggested. Many Southern Cotton Mills are manufacturing ginghams of the lower grade and finding a ready market tor their product. Southern manufacturers of cotton clotha hive il:irtn?- - cent years been developing their tplants towards a better ilass of go > Is generally; in fact. the tendency of tlm Southern cotton-manufacturing industry is iu the direction of finer van-., and cloths. It is now suggested that tine ginghams should not be neglected. One of the leading dry goods trench ants of Columbus, Ua., in writing ol this in the Columbus Fnquirer-Sun, says; "1 should think it would pay on Southern mills to manufacture a high grade of gingham for the home trade. It is almost impossible to buy tin best grades of gingham. By the b grades i mean standard ginghams like Ar.ioskcag, Lancashire. etc. It ia true that some of the Southern mills teak ginghar..'. but none of the best, graib s. Our firm has about stopped buying gingham from any but those milk' whose product is recognized as absolutely standard. The Southern mills try to make a cheap quality, but 1 should think it would pay them tc manufacture a real first-class gingham The prico has advanced to six cents and it is hard to get orders tilled even at that price. 1 am writing now regarding an order that was placed sonic time ago which has not yet beer tilled." Durham Industries. An address delivered before the Durham (N. C.) Chamber of Commerce i>\ Mr. Thor. as 1*. Fuller, a member of tin board of aldermen of Durham, has been published in pamphlet form, am is being circulated in the interest o: Durham's development. Mr. Fuller it his address showed that in the past U years Durham's population has increased from 500Q or 6000 prsons l< about 20.000. the value of real ant personal property from $1 17.">19 t? 20.0*. 1.802. it.-; hanklne cnnitil frnn *50.000 to $303,200. and its cotton-mi) industry from one mill to six. wit! 1O2.0S0 spindles and 21 OS looms, wltl an annual product valued at $2.S01.175 The manufacture of yarns and she** lugs into hosiery and tohaceo bass l>; two o' these plants add $307,000 to th' annual output.. Other industries it t!ie city include four tobacco factories three cii.ar and cheroot factories, om snuff factory, pants factory, rolle flou'dng mill, telephone factory, thrn carriage factories, yarn factory, tw< pinning; mills, furniture factory, mat tress factory, paper-box factory, hoi; bindery, dye works, foundry and ma chip*' shop and two bri k factories, li he past 10 years Lurham's area ha incrc-'-t i ; in one square milt to f ui square mil s. Lumber Notes. The Lot A' I'erkins Lumber c >. o j ft i If port. Miss., has Incvreased it 1 capita! stock from ? 100,000 to $200.0!lC '! he Wit cling Lumber Co. of V an ( s.'lvap.ia lias purchased and will de ; v. ! :> 1070 acrt t i f timber land o: , Cindy's fork of Cheat river. The Southern Line (' ?. of Georgia j with principal office in Savannah, wil i i unM? iin \?-in111 nu?.i Diuuawn tin., to Rrooksvilhp Fla. The T? xas & Pacific l/mibrr Co. In been Incorporated at Qu^on City, Tex. with a capital stock of $10,0(10. Tlx incorporators a.*e S. II. Vaner, A. S fa s and .1. W. Titley. The W. II. Hancock Lumber C\ o rarkadule, Miss., lias been incorporal cd. with a capital stock of $10.00.' Th Incorporators at" IV. 11. Hancock. \V II. Uarksdalc and J. W. Kupeke. The Quiver Lumber Co. at Harks dale. Sunflower county, Miss., h e : been chartered, with a capital sloe! ! of $10,000. The incorporators are R \V. Perry, W. 11. Hancock and vV. , Rarksdaie. 'l'!i Reont Lnmher Co. of Ohio; county. Tennessee, has b< < n chart-Ted with a capital stock of $jr,,000. Tin on irporators are .1. L. FttRlish. II. ' Manning. .1. C. Kimball, Walter (1 j :inil I . II Cnillinon The Southern I'inrt Kumber Co. o Diboll. Angelina county, Texas, liai begun the building of a new plant tin dcr the supervision of Mr. A. W. Cor kins. Tho capacity of the plant wil 1." 123.000 feet of lumber per day. Textile Notes, Merrimack Manufacturing Co. hat received pities and spei ifirations foi it-; additional building at liuntsville Ala., mentioned last month. T"!.o structure will be five stories high 130x '.:?8 feet, to contain 6.">.000 spindle.' and 2000 looms, as was stated. Con inet for ejection has been awarded tr Plynt IP hilng Construction Co. o Palmer. Mass. Marietta (Ga.) Knitting Co.. report ? ! Inst week as having contracted foi Kb,'-horse-power engine and tw itj add!;ional knitting machines, intends to iv. tall more knitting machines during the year. Its present increase o equipment will provide for an outpul rf COO dozen pairs per day. all half, hose. Contmet has also hern awanlofor building materials, and the company will do the construction w <rk .i hn 11. Barnes is tho architect u charge. Henderson (N. C.) Cotton Mills ha. decided to enlarge its plant. It is announced that the addition will b? f.6:;79 feet, with an ell 36x72 feet Number of spindles and looms to b< added not stated as yet. Company now has 15,000 spindles and 216 looms. rQ no. CASE NOW CLOSED. Decision in Burdick Murder Mystery Given Cut SAYS HE MAS KILLED BY PENNELL The Statement Is Hade That the I>eauS Man Should Lie Regarded lnnixar?C * j Until Proven (iullty. Buffalo, Special.?The verdict ru tl'.oHurdick inquest handed down by Judge Murphy Tuesday, while statvas: that the identity of the murderer ?& Edwin H. Hurdick has not been prov^c, practically charges Arthur it. Portcw2L the dead lawyer, with the criiwti. Pennell had a stronger motive than anyone else for putting Hurdick met of the way. Judge Murphy suyvr. ami all the facts brought out by ttie inquest constitute just grounds for tfluct issuance of a warrant against PeimcL'i if he were alive. The verdict fs so?t i ened somewhat so far as it relates tf* Ponnell by the statement that if Itrnnell was alive he would bo -given t5te presumption of innocence anf.u , proven guilty. i In the opinion of Judge Murphy ! Burdlek had no woman guest in his "den" on the night of the murder arti the crime was not tlie work of a bar gl&r. He exonerates Mrs. Gcrtrmlo R. Paine and Miss Hutchison from connection with the crime and in cmnI elusion criticises Mrs. Maria A. IlttlS. f and censures Mrs. Hurdick. the forxst1 or for her attitude toward tno xn thorlties and the Inconsistency of , actions with the theory that she bafil 1 no knowledge of the murder. Judgv Murphy stated this afternoon that ftu? 1 will hold the inquest into the dewu>. of Arthur K. Pennell the latter pari of this week. The story of tho finding of R<zr Bnrdiek's body In the morning ami 1 the events preceding its discovery as related by tho different members of the household is told, and tho dfcH q crepancy In tho testimony of tho ser! vants and Mr. Hull is pointed out. "Where is tho motive for ttv J crime?" asks Judge Murphy, and Hires* he takes up the relations of Mrs. Hvxr. dick and Pennell and says that it i seems that five years ago. on tho wcasion of a visit to New Haven ! the Hurdicks ami Ponnella. Mrs. liurdick "gave the love which belonged to her husband to another. She . Pennell and he apparently became ^ fatuated with her." Iiurdick I :ai*ued >. the truth and a separation followed . hut heeause of love for her childr/sr he took his wife back and forgave the1 1 author of his wrong upon his promLt? to leave Huffaio. "This promise ami' the promise which Mrs. Iiurdick tuaoV ! to her husband." says Judge Murphy "were shamelessly broken." Finn Hi Mr. Iiurdick told her she must lhav^ his house and ho applied for a v?>i voroo from bis wife. Ponnoll, hou.vovxu\ . induced her lv> defend the suit. IJI.ut dick had boon shadowing Penacll and i Mrs. tturdiek and Ponnoll had detectives shadowing Burdick. "So far as appears in the evidence."* says Judge Murphy, "Ponnoll had r*?? succeeded in compromising; lturdirSc . . in any way. Ilurdick, however, had ,-a i lot of evidence, consisting of letters. written by Penned to Mrs. Burdick of such a gushing, lovesick, importuning nature that their pubHentvara : meant complete humiliation and so ; ciai ruin to their author. This of all others," says? the justice, "was the ute tlve strong enough to incite a teperate mind already steeped in wrong I doing, to so foul and cruel a inurdec. 1 i">id he do it? Was he responsible few it? lie had returned from the 1 | man's wife I ho day bofore tho murder. Ho was hrro that night. He was my much excited tho next morning acta, wont and purchased a revolver. Tit*. clerks j>?? sent at the sale state at that time ho did not appear at all like himself." Tho judge tolls of I'ennell's visit hi the Kails oft tho morning of the di? covory of the murder, of his message 5 to his wif to bring tho papers an/! of their failure to return for dinner \ that evening. Continuing, the judge 1 says in one of Kenncll's letters to Mrs. Burdiek there was a threat that he would kill her husband. The eash" lor and bartender of a hotel also tc stilled that he said lie would kill a cer5 tain man and Mrs. I'ennell bail writton Burdiek a warning letter. "I'oo, nell Jiad eoniplete knowledge of th<Burdiek home and considering his rr1 ialions with the family it could have. been an easy natter for him to obI tain a key then to. Altogether these facts would in my opinion constitute* just grounds of suspicion on which a warrant could be issued were lie all'ae.. 1 That would not mean, however, that. he was guilty. He would have* the s right of a trinl." the report continues^ "He ean never bo placed on trial here. i nor can his cage ever be judicially determined. I^t. us he as fair then to * the dead as the law presumes us to ' be to the living. He must he presumed. innocent until proven guilty."