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 MARK TWAIN

Szczspanik. By the French precedent, it is plain that we must abide by the finding of the court.&quot;

&quot;But Szczepanik is still alive.&quot;

&quot;So is Dreyfus.&quot;

In the end it was found impossible to ignore or get around the French precedent. There could be but one result: Clayton was delivered over to the executioner. It made an immense excitement; the state rose as one man and clamored for Clayton s pardon and re-trial. The governor issued the par don, but the Supreme Court was in duty bound to annul it, and did so, and poor Clayton was hanged yesterday. The city is draped in black, and, indeed, the like may be said of the state. All America is vocal with scorn of &quot;French justice,&quot; and of the malignant little soldiers who invented it and inflicted it upon the other Christian lands.

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