THE FAIRBUEN CASE.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 85, 29 April 1882, Page 99

THE FAIRBUEN CASE.

It would be improper, while the case against Fairburn is sub judice, to publish anything that is likely to seriously prejudice either the prosecution or defence, but we have been shown docuruentSj and statements have been communicated to us which put a very different aspect on the case from that which was disclosed in the depositions taken before the Justices at Albertland, and which appear to a great extent to justify their action. Some of the letters written by ITairburn to the Grittos family are of such a character that they are not only unfit for publication, but cannot even be described, and we think the Rev. Mr G-ittos was not without grounds for the exceedingly terse and forcible terms in which he referred to the defendant. With a full knowledge of the circumstances of this very extraordinary case, we cannot help regretting that the Rev. Grittos did not, at a much earlier stage of the affair, take such proceedings as would have averted the present predicament, and saved him and his family from the possibility of having their domestic affairs exposed to the vulgar gaze of a public court. His sacred calling, however, disinclined him from adopting those timely measures which ninety-nine out of every hundred men in like circumstances would have promptly had recourse to. For the present we refrain from further comment, but we shall have a good deal to say about it at a more fitting juncture.