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Herring. Herring.
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50 Quarters do do
50 Quintal CODFISH, cheap for cash or trade.
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HE Subscriber now offers to the trade,
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NEARLY ALL OUR
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March 3, 1886.
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LETTERS VO THE EDI ran. |
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The Prisoner Gillis.
Sin,—I see by the letiers of ‘‘Upton” and of ‘‘ The Public’ in THe Examiner, and of ‘‘ Justice” in the Patriot, that those whozs duty itis to see that the laws are duly and properly administered, come in for a brimming measure of animadversion and stricture. ‘ndeed, some of these writers have so far presumed on the leni- ency of the Crown in their freedom of speech, as to leave it doubtful whether or not, in other countries, the Department of Justice would tolerate with impunity im putations of a like nature. In Russia I would not care to characterize the solemn acts of the Ozar as ‘‘ seriorvs blunders,” unless [ were prepared to experience for a period the severity of the weather in Siberia. Berlin would soon grow too hot for any one who wonld dare to speak thus rashly of the Chancellor.
But to return to the substance of these letters. Those writers would have the world believe that they represent and embody the views of all the citizens of Charlottetown, and, by implication, of alj the people of the Island. But I know better. Iam well aware that public opi- nion is somewhat divided as to the guilt of the prisoner, but lam able to state from reliable sources that the greater portion at least of the citizenss of “harlottetown view with favor the intervention of His Excellency ; and, asfar asthe country is concerned, it breathes more freely since the commutarion, because we, living at a distance from the capital, and viewing things dispassionately, never considered the evidence conclusive enough to hang on. This need not be construed into a reflection on the administration of justice in our fair Island home, for we based our conclusions and judgments not on the evidence, pure and simple, as elicited at the trial, but as verified subsequently by actual facts. This it was that induced the Counsel for the defence to petition the Governor-Gan- eral for a reprieve to examine more fully into the case of their client. Their repre- sentations were considered, I must sup- pose, strong enough to avert the death penalty, and not strong enough to establish his innocence; hence the commutation The ability of this firm is so well established that the public always have every confidence in the skill with which they manage cases entrusted to them. The issue shows how successfully they handled this appareatly forlorn case.
Now the writers referred to clamored loudly for an ‘‘explanation.” Upton start- {ed the cry the day after the the commute- tion bécame public, and it is still being kept up. Fair play is bonnie play. We are being regaled ad nauseam with this sort of inflammatory literature, and we see nothing to be gained by the publication of it. It will not attain its pretended aim,and most likely will lead to the unearthing of hatchets that have been buried. Every medal has two sides, We have bad pre- sented and obtruded before us the worst side of the prisoner. Our newly found zealots for justice look in vaio for a re- deeming trait in his character, and they accordingly present the mutilated, dis- figured side of this medal, but with a new scratch on it every time. You will allow me, Sir, to tarn over this medal, They urge that no one outside of prisons or re- formatories can be found to utter a good word in his behalf. This is absolutely false; and I say it for the special benefit of the gentleman ‘‘who would not kick a man when he is down.” No, not he. How- ever, | am not desirous to have you infer that I seek to palliate any one’s misdeeds, not even Gillis.’ But I wish it to be un- derstood that all that has been written and said, aad blabbed about the prisoner, if put onthe market would not realizs—in its own way—the present value of the bank- rupt stock of the old Bank of P. E. I. It must all be taken at an immense discount.
The legitimate conclusion i draw from such letters is that they evince, not so much a well-grounded fear that justice bas miscarried by an evasion of the law, as— and I say it with shame—a thirst for blood. ‘Tis the story of the Quaker’s dog. He wanted to have him destroyed. The means he adopted was to give him a bad name. He cries out mad dog. Forthwith a crowd assembles, and the canine is despatched. Poor Gillis comes in for a share of the same kind of treatment. But it can be satisfactorily demonstrated that the name is worse by far than the prisoner deserves. We all know when the public tongue gets fixed on an individual what a hare it makes of him. So frightfully does it mutilate, that one loses his personality because no longer recognizable. ‘To give one instance
only the other day the Patriot announced,
with a flourish of trumpets, that a second murder was chargeable to the prisoner.
And the world swallowed the sugar-coated pill. But it was only one of the many ont- rageous fabrications gotten up to damage the prisoner. We are not satisfied with the indifferent amende the Patriot made a day or two after, in an obscure paragraph with- |
drawing the charge ; and the writers | am | reviewing should have noticed this one-
sided affair, if their ideas of justice were really based on the eternal, immutable laws of God.
The prisoner worked with many persons in Eastern King’s when a boy, and they} readily testify to his good qualities. Pre- cocious youths generally evince some symp- | toms of depravity, but the young Gillis| was never known to possess any of the! make-up of the embryo desperado. The) following certificate represents him when | more properly speaking he was ‘‘on his) own hook.” It is favorable, and possesses | all the weight that must be aitached to the | evidence of a disinterested party, and one | whuse probity is beyond suspicion:
I hereby certify that I knew Alexander Gillis as
a fisherman in Gloucester, Mass., for a period of six or seven years—my acquaintance with him |
there havi imeerer in 1871. During three or four years [ mes aa. or oftener,when we made shurt tri the remutuder of the time
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I met him less frequently, say every two months. We were both fishermen, and one of our trips we were ship mates. Thus my knowledge of him is established without a doubt. I know jmore of him by far than his namesake from Merriton, Ont.
I now deliberately andjunhesitatingly assert,not- withstanding the damaging reports to the con- trary that have been sent abroad, that during his stay in Gloucester, he was, upto the time of his arrest, a well-behaved young man, and attended regularly to his business, fishing winter and summer. He was of an affable, kind and obliging disposition. We did not want to become ac- quainted with a better fellow of his class.
‘True, sometimes he did drink freely—all fisher- men generally do—yet he was not recognized as a drunkard. His arrest took all his mates by sur prise, and filled them with regret. The current opinion then,wasand [ still hold it, that it was not for highway robbery he was co! nmitted, but for simple theft, or perhaps larceny. Even simple theft, under certain circumstances, is severely punished in some seaport towns.
After his release, he was arrested a second time. This offence was for appropriating some junk rope, a pretty common offence among fisher- men, and one they have recourse to, to raise the wind,
I for one can never believe the prisoner is capable of committing all the outrageous crimes laid at his door.
To my knowledge he never broke out of prison, but the world knows that his good conduc’ shortened his term of imprisonment,
JaMES D, McINTYRE
Fairfield, Lot 47, March 23, 1886,
I could furaish similar certificates of good behavior. but this will suffice. In face of this document, many of the base imputa- tions attributed to the prisoner fall to the ground, and when the public mind is en- tirely disengaged from the prejudices that have been stirred up, truth will dissipate the dark clouds that have gathered around him. I don’t pretend that this vindication will make him a martyr of oppressed and injured innocence. No; we all know he led latterly an irregular life; but we kuow there isa yawning chasm between misde- meanors and murder, He is guilty, un- doubtedly, of some crimes, but he is ** net so bad as painted.” He is guilty of seduc- tion. Unfortunately for society, Gillis is not the only offender on that point, and others do worse. He is known to have been long-fingered. Yes, bunt others do that kind of thing on a larger and more magnificent scale in the world of commerce. His name has been mentioned with bated breath in connection with other dark and foul deeds. On enquiry they might turn out as baseless as the redoubtable Vance- boro cate.
Your correspondents demand au “ expla- nation ’ for the commutation. I have yet to learn that the Governor-General is in any way responsible for his acts to irrespon- sible writers. I have also further to learn that:Counsel are held accountable at the bar of public opinion for the defence of their clients. It isa well known fact that but for new supervening evidence the law would have taken its course, Not likely the Messrs. Peters would stultify them- selves, or be wiliing parties to the prostitu- tion of their high profession, by approach- ing the Governor-General on the matter, unless there was some weight, aflording grounds for favorable results, in the new evidence adduced. It is altogether a mis- taken idea that the public have a right to know what actuated His Excellency in the exercise of his prerogative of mercy. True, in political cases, as Riel’s, Parliament can call for papers, but in a civil case of this kind it will require more weight than attaches to the drivel of anonymous writers to get more information than is vouchsafed in the official document from the Secretary of State.
I myself could say much in connection with this matter, but the trial papers are a sealed book and cannot be opened. Ac- cording to British criminal laws, once a prisouer is sentenced he is debarred the privilege of a new trial, properly so called. A reprieve can be obtained, aad an enquiry ordered to verify the new evidence. But it takes place in private. The public, the jury and the reporter are excluded. Since there are so many interested in the evidence given in this trial, and since no good can possibly accrue from an examination of them, it is prudent, and in the interests of well-ordered society to leave severely slone what might prove to bo a hornet’s nest.
Why cannot your correspondents have the common sense and decency to leave the management of things to the persons specially intrusted with them? Is the Minister of Justice to be dragged into this controversy with impunity ? Is this speaking disrespectfully of superiors and of persons in high places, a thing to be countenanced, even under plea of outraged justice? Be- fore now, decisions in this Island itself have been rendered in criminal cases, in which the people, as a body, judging from the reported statements of the trials, did not concur, and yet they acquiesced in them without a murmur. The present case must, forsooth, be seized to inspire young and thoughtless pens with stupid thiretings after justice to the disgust of the better-thinking portion of the community.
I for one do not consider Gillis the irre- ‘¢claimable wretch, hardened criminal, cold- bleoded desperado, incarnate fiend some would have us imagine he is ; and to my mind he has not been proven guilty of the murder of Callaghan. But he has been made the scapegoat of the community’s sins long enough. Some other person must
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now be hanted up as the _ incen- idiary of the Georgetown Courthouse, las the tramp whose movements were
‘chronicled in your issue of the 20th, &c, It will thus be found that our nervously- inclined citizena wil! still have reason to continue their watchfulness even after the redoubtable Gillis will have left our shores,
However, let him go in peace, and let his example be a warning to parents to exercise continuously over their children that |supervision by which they are assured they faithfully discharge all their duties to Church and State. This would effectually relegate murders and high crimes to other climes. Yours, &., VINDEX. Black Bush, Lot 45, 27th March, ’86.
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