The Hunt for 'Stone'

There is a feeling throughout the County that a greater effort should be made to capture Stone, the murderer of Hopkins, on Thanksgiving day. A reward should be offered for him, dead or alive. It is now stated on pretty good authority that certain parties in that vicinity aided and abetted Stone in his murderous attack on Hopkins. If such is the case, they should be arrested and punished. This community cannot afford to lose its reputation for hunting out and punishing villains and murderers, and Stone and his gang are good subjects to practice on. The officers have been vigilant and diligent, but it would seem that a good detective should be set to work to get at the bottom facts of this terrible crime in which a good citizen was wronged, and then shot down in his tracks by a man whose hands have heretofore been stained with human blood, if reports concerning him are true. Stone is a bad man, and should be caught and hung, if not by law, by the people, who are greater than the law. This same Stone was indicted at the last term of the Grand Jury for flourishing a revolver in an angry and threatening manner, in a crowd, but the petit jury acquitted him, thus turning him loose on the community to shoot and kill whenever his murderous temper prompted him to do so, and the result has been as stated above. No pains or expense should be spared to capture this slayer of his fellow man.