Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — Leseons of the Oxford Lynching. [ARTICLE]

Leseons of the Oxford Lynching.

tAt Delphi last Friday night, in a saloon row, Henry “Spiker shot and fatally wounded James Butler. Spiker Was arrested and bound over to the circuit court. “Col. A. Newton Field”—-we all remember the Colonel, —has been giving “The Spy of Atlanta” toihe long suffer ing people of Rochester. The papers of that town ary not altogether enthusiastic in their commendations of that play. There has been a great deal of complaint for.a long time past in regard to the alleged neglect of the telegraph operator at this place in delivering messages. It is asserted that messages received in tlie, afternoon are often not delivered until the next day, and that, too when the parties to whimi they addressed are well_known--4uid easily to be found. Just how much justice tjiere may be in these complaints we are unable to say; but it is certain that owing to the insufficient, number of wires- upon the telegraph line, that the operator hei«roften finds great difficulty in sending or receiving private messages. /

>l. ).oui=i Glt.-be-Democrat. The Indianapolis Journal makes the recent lynching at Oxford a text for some very pointed criticisms of the legal fraternity. It declares that ofie* of the main reasons why justice has become so uncertain, and' the people are so frequently moved to take the law into their owji hands, is that the lawyers, always stand ready to use their talent and skill in preventing the conviction and punishment of any kind of criminal, on technical grounds/ and by prolonging the proceedings by all the arts of sharp =. and unscrupulous legal practice.