People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — JUSTICE OUTRAGED. [ARTICLE]

JUSTICE OUTRAGED.

ABETTORS SEEK TO COVER UP HIDEOUS SKELETON.’ Gristly Civilization Shonld Merer Criticise Other Anarchists—The Killing o* that Washington Boy end the Punishment. To show the servile iniquity of the public press under the control of the plutocratic press association we have another sublimely infamous illustration. A woman—a young, beautiful, wealthy woman—murders a colored boy in cold blood and deliberate manner. She fires twice to do the deed. The judge and court conspire and suborn for her escape. A time is privately set for the court to adjudicate one whole half hour before the known time of opening—think of it! A half hour is time enough to go through the farce. And then the testimony shows the facts—the Amazon confesses to “homicide,” the judge sweetly flatters the millionaire’s daughter—as published last week—and ssoo—a fine—ye Gods, think of it—is paid for a murder. Now look at the old party press, either silent or palliating. There is not 'a finer-grained gentleman on the republican press of New York than Mr. Ayers, of the Chronicle. Note the heartless remark with which that journal tosses aside this grievous wrong against humanity—as flippant as the silken-vestured female. It coldly speaks of the penalty for accidentally shooting a colored boy. “Accidental,” when it took two shots to kill, alter she had brought a weapon for the purpose. A life for a pear, stolen perchance, in a land where republican and democratic thieves of millions go unpunished. The moral is that “society” doesn’t recognize that that little Sunday-school colored boy had any rights which a white judge was bound to respect. The white tigress had to plug him twice to make the “accident” more emphatic. The New York “People” says: “Equality before the law/’ as practiced in the capitalist state, has been again graphically illustrated. Elizabeth Flagler, the daughter of one of our legalized cut-throats, Gen. Flagler, shot twice and killed a boy, Ernest Green, in Washington. Thereupon the judge, and the whole machinery of the court, sets about to free the culprit. Already a coroner’s jury had tried to “vindicate” her. The popular outcry that followed caused her to be indicted. But this was only a pretense, as subsequent events showed. Last Tuesday, at an unusually early hour, the court met, evidently by appointment with the culprit. She pleaded guilty to involuntary homicide, and was forthwith sentenced to three hours imprisonment and a fine of SSOO. The fine, the report says, was paid on the spot in ten crisp SSO bills, and the “convict” rode oft to jail, where she remained three hours in pleasant chat with a friend and the .matron, and then rode home to celebrate her “triumph”—the triumph of the vicious class that dominates this nation. While Miss Flagler was lunching, the distressed mother of the boy was seen and asked what she thought of the “trial?” She answered, sobbing: “It isn’t for poor colored folks to say what should be done. I only know that I loved my boy, and that he is gone. If he had been a bad boy I would raise my hands and say, it was better thus. But he was a good boy, and I looked forward to his future with great pride and joy. Then came this woman’s shot. And I am told that she is free —that she paid the law some money and sat in the jail parlor.”—East and West.