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...According to Evelyn's testimony under oath, he summoned her from her bed into a great baronial hall, suddenly drew forth a heavy whip and then began furiously to lash her. He would, and did punish her because she had not come to him as a lily of the fields. Harry Thaw wanted everything and thought he had enough money to get everything-even decency...
...would punish Stanford White, for having been the instrument of his deprivation. They came back to New York and plunged into its high-roaring surf of folly, after which bath he killed...
...involved until he had reasonable grounds for believing in their guilt, and that it would defeat the ends of justice to make known their names. He offered, however, to turn the entire evidence over to a Committee of the House, if that body stood on its Constitutional right to punish its members for disorderly behavior or to expel such members. The Judiciary Committee of the House decided to await the regular course of justice. Meanwhile, the two members involved came forward and identified themselves. John Wesley Langley, Republican of Kentucky, rose on a question of personal privilege and declared...
...shocking revelations at Washington of betrayal of public interest must give profound concern to every lover of our institutions and to every patriotic American regardless of party . . . The duty of the Government is no less to punish those who are guilty than to protect those who are innocent. No attempt to divert attention from the guilty should be permitted...
...There will be immediate, adequate, unshrinking prosecution, criminal and civil, to punish the guilty, and to protect every national interest. In this effort there will be no politics, no partisanship. It will be speedy, it will be just. I am a Republican, but I cannot on that account shield any one because he is a Republican. I am a Republican, but I cannot on that account prosecute any one because he is a Democrat...