THE DAWN OF NEW ERA.
VoL 11, No. 52
Where Ought Law Cases to Be Tried? And How? And By Whom?
DEADERS of The Jeffersonian know, that
* I have never had anything to say about
law-cases that were pending in the courts.
A person accused of crime ought to be tried
by the men who are set apart by the law for
that purpose. He ought to be tried at the
place pointed out by the law. He ought
to be tried in the manner set forth in the
Code.
Y e Georgians did not act as though we had
any business trying Nan Patterson, Harry
iThaw, Albert T. Patrick, or Police-Lieuten
ant Becker.
We left New York to handle her own cases.
Y e assumed that New Yorkers knew all
about them, and knew how to try them.
We assumed that the sworn jurors, and the
sworn judges of New York were honest, com
petent, and conscientious.
Ye would have taken it as an insult to our
own intelligence, and a gross affront to the
people and the courts of New York, had we
gone to prostituting our newspapers for or
against Patrick, Becker, and Thaw.
• We would have laughed to scorn the propo
sition that we Georgians go to holding mass
meetings to influence the lawful, responsible
authorities of New York.
.The Jeffersonian didn’t have anything to
say about the Frank case, until after the At
lanta Journal had published its outrageous
editorial, endeavoring to intimidate Judge
Ben Hill and the Supreme Court, in the. dis
charge of their duty.
' The extra-ordinary motion for new trial
was then pending, it was a contempt of court
for the Atlanta Journal to publish that edito
rial.
