All Killers Think Their Actions Justified, Says Editor, Aug. 31, 1925

It is not believable that any technicalities that any astute lawyer can inject will be used in the forthcoming trial. Undoubtedly, Mr. W.B. Cole will willingly face a trial on what he is bound to feel fully justifies his action, and he is not the sort of man who would allow chicanery to interpose to thwart a complete administration of justice.

--Rockingham Post Dispatch

The public will learn with interest, when the trial is held, what it is that has been referred to so often in Rockingham dispatches as “justifying,” in the sight of Cole and his friends, the “deep damnation of the taking off” of young Ormand. What is meant no doubt is the “excuse” that will be urged. No assassin ever killed without feeling that he was “justified,” but society is entitled to protection, no matter what the one who takes human life may think.

From the editorial page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Aug. 31, 1925

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