Mr. Gus Parker started last Friday morning with his wife to the hospital at Bryson City, hoping that a noted surgeon there could do something for Mrs. Parker. Her internal sufferings are excruciating, and cannot possibly be borne much longer. Oh, how our sympathies go out to the afflicted.
Mr. J.M. Barnes is sick—an abscess in the head causing him much suffering. Mrs. Barnes has been confined to her bed for some weeks now, and does not seem to mend much.
Lawyer McCall was in Marble on the 16th.
Mr. Folger, pastor in charge of the Murphy circuit, preached in Marble Baptist Church last Sunday night to a not large by interested congregation. Perhaps being before a strange congregation, he was a little rash in reproving some young boys for what he thought was inattention. Mr. Folger will preach regularly here second Sunday nights. He had with him his lifetime friend, Mr. Dockery, drummer, who followed him with a fine and instructive address.
They brought Mrs. Gus Parker home from the hospital last Sunday night. Doctors could do nothing—they offer no hope. Her sufferings are terrible. Morphine has no effect on her.
Mr. Geo. M. Kinsey from Andrews was on our streets Tuesday.
Your correspondent is pleased with the lawyers’ recommendations to the county commissioners: That they build the new court house of Cherokee marble; that they build large and roomy—meeting the future demands; that they build beautifully, gracefully, as well as for convenience and comfort and use. May we hope, too that they will build with due regards to the court-room’s acoustics? By all means, Mr. Commissioner; build us a court room in which we can hear understandingly—something we could not do in the old building.
What is this, Mr. Editor, we see and hear so much about in North Carolina wanting to repeal our capital punishment laws, and about personal disbelief in capital punishment any-way? In spite of capital punishment, crime conditions with us are bad. With the death penalty removed would come increased murders and criminal assaults, etc., bring many fold terrors to our people.
The desire of so many people to save arch criminals form legal death punishment and their indifference to the fate of the criminal’s victim, is hard to understand. Just why some men and women have heart-pity for the murderer, fore the rapist, and no care for the victim is un-knowable to those of us who stand for law enforcement. Why will or how can men and women make heroes of murderers and of brutes who do worse than murder to women? So many Jurors object to themselves because they oppose capital punishment. They never stop to ask themselves, is their objections just sentiment, or sound reasoning. They do not stop to see if there are not law-destroyers and breakers-down of respect for law.
From page 3 of The Cherokee Scout, Friday, Feb. 19, 1926
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