Jackson County IL Archives News.....CRIME - Editorial - Dec. 18, 1873 October 16, 1923
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Murphysboro Daily Independent October 16, 1923

    The following editorial under the above heading appeared Dec. 18, 1873.

    The past week has been one of excitement to be long remembered in the
criminal history of Jackson county.  In quick succession our quiet citizens have
been shocked by the report of riots, murders, and sudden deaths.  In times of
epidemics a feeling of awe which pervades the community in which the horrors of
death are "rife in the land," is modified by the acknowledgment of the Supreme
and All Wise Creator of the universes.  But when men will ignore the commands of
the Creator and take laws of the land in their own hands, and with instruments
of destruction to life cause death to assume shapes of horrible murders, death
assumes a different aspect.

    Last Friday dispatches were received, spreading the news throughout the
country that a band of lawless men had set the laws of the country aside and
formed a mod to destroy property, and if necessary, to take the lives of their
brother men, to gratify an imaginary wrong.  The injured feelings of the public
had scarcely been restored to usual smoothness, when it was again disturbed with
the more shocking information flying with the rapidity of thought over the
county, that an old citizen, G. M. BULLINER, living in Williamson county, had
been brutally murdered on Friday morning in open daylight in a large populated
neighborhood of law-abiding citizens, and the unknown murderers permitted to
escape without one shadow of a chance of their apprehension and punishment.  The
funeral requiem had not ceased to reverberate and the sound of the clods on his
coffin yet fresh in the memory of its citizens and friends, when the community
was again brought to a stand still to contemplate the horrors of the murder of a
young man just entering upon the stage of action, in the buoyancy of manhood and
eager to run the great race which he has started so favorably and promising. 
But a few weeks ago he returned from Texas, a state looked upon as a place where
laws are not regarded and life is not safe, to spend a short time visiting his
relatives and friends in a land of law and Christian influence, to be summoned
without warning by the angel of death to appear before his maker.  A murdered
man, but yesterday so full of life and animation, to-day cold in the embrace of
death, "cut down in the bloom of life," not by disease's leveling power, but by
the hands of a fellow man; and a community thrown into excitement of
indignation, scarcely able to control their feelings.  On Saturday our
sympathies were aroused by the death of a girl, Malinda GOLLIHER, by an
accident.  In an unguarded moment she was injured by a fire, and the next day
death relieved her suffering, adding another human soul to the list of victims
hurriedly snatched from the loving embrace of their friends.


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Transcribed by Mary Riseling from grandfather Dr.C. E. RISELING's collection of
old newspapers.

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