Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-10-10
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a long editorial article on
the subject Of "The manner In which
the laws are administered in the JUS
tees Courts Of the county"-chargtng
gross abuses upon the officers, and in
which Is cited as an illustration the
case of "a. Beal, an honest-looking,
industrious, and conscientious man.
who complained to the Enterprise edi-
tor how he had been wronged In the
Justices Court here In Gold Hill. The
Enterprise, through sympathy for him,
took up his case under the impression
that what he said was all true-but at
the same time it expressed a desire TO
hear what could be- said in reply. A.
the article in question implied consld-
cradle wrong-doing to our local town
ship officers, we have been to some
trouble to find out who this u Beai
Is, and has been, In order to show him
I'D In q rather different light, and az
cording to his merits, from the position
he is represented to be in by tho Enter
prise. The following extract from that
paper says:
Lat winter sickness compelled him to be-
come an inmate OF the County Hospital FOR some
weeks. Recovering. bat still weak. no engaged
10 work for his board with a women keeping u
iod~ing house In Gold Hill. HE purpose was
20 remiin there until he had regained strength
,uf1cient to enable him to do q full day work.
He was there but q short time when the mouse
In which he was employed burned. vs. or
three days AFTER he len for Carson IN ssaren oI
employment, and finally found It In Wasnoe
county, where he has since remained. Atew
DAYS AGO ne visited Gold Hill for the purpose OF
collecting . small sum duo him, and learned
upon his arrival there that . charge OF larceny
and arson had been preferred against him some
time before By the woman for whom no had
worked for his board. and that the officers had
been looking for him. Amazed at this discovery,
he promptly called upon the woman Tor an ex,
pltnation. aud on leaving the house Was arrested
By Marshal Harkin and taken 70 tne ek.uP
While there he says the officer abused him most
shamefully. BE denounced him as a thiei and
incendlary, threatened him with personal VIC
lence, and said he ought TO be turned over 10
a-vigilancc committee to DO hanged. me pris-
oner deposited one hundred ard nifty dollars 10.
ul1 AlSO W w w NSS
him, and was permitted to depart. Last
Wednesday a hearing was had, and as there
was no evidence against him, he was oil course
acquitted.
The woman who kept the boarding
house, referred to in the first sentence
Of the above extract, informs us that
Beal came to her house last March.
poor and penniless, and that he board
ell there, working part Of the time for
his board, until the fore part Of June,
when he again went to the County
Hospital, where he remained only
about a week, when he again returned
to her house, and agreed to do "chores"
for his board. While thus staying ut
her house, sundry articles Of household
goods disappeared. and circumstances
have since tended to convince the wo-
man that Beal was the person who took
them. I'VE have this information from
the woman herself.) On the afternoon
of the 18th Of June, this nan Beal and
two young men twho were afterwards
incarcerated in the county Jail for
grand larceny were seen to enter a va
cant house adjoining Mrs. Emerson's
boarding-house-but for what purpose
no one knew, two neighbors having
seen them 90 In and come out. Be.
tween 12 and l o'clock that night, Beal
and the same young men were seen to-
gether ut q certain dance house on
South C street, and the two young
men accompanied Beal towards the
Divide, as far as the Chaplin House.
About 9 O'Clock that morning an III
cendlary set fire to the vacant house
adjoining Mrs. Emerson's boarding
house-and among the first and most
active persons seen to carry out blan-
kets, pilow-cases, and other articles
belonging to Mrs. Emerson, was this
man Beal-but no: one article Of which
did he afterwards deliver to the owner.
Quite q little quantity Of jewelry also
disappeared at this fire, in the hustle
and excitement of the hour-which
Mrs. Emerson says she believes was
taken by this man and plumber
and theft seemed to be the motive
Of the incendlary, whoever he was.
Beal left Gold Hill in a day or two
and went to Carson. We are informed
by a couple Of detectives that while he
boarded at Mrs. E~merson's, his asso-
ciates were thieves that he frequently
visited the den Of u notorious Spanish
thief up in Virginia City, who was
found out to have stolen various arti-
c.es In Gold Hill, among which was q
four hundred dollar gold watch from
. man employed in the Yellow Jacket
hoisting works. All the circumstances
combined tended to implicate him in
the burning Of the boarding house, and
some thirty other buildings, on the
morning Of the nth Of June, although
the evidence was merely circumstan-
tial, and hence his arrest was delayed,
and wien brought up for examination
was dismissed by the Prosecuting At
torney because there was no positive
and direct evidence to convict-tin'
cendiaries are not often caught in the
act and collared by the oticers.) As
B,al has feigned such great innocence
In the presence OF the editor OF the
Enterprise, we publish the foregoing as
the true statements Of two detectives
and Mrs. Emerson, all Of whom stand
ready to verify to its truth. We are
not acquainted with Beal, and never
saw him but once, and that was last
Saturday, in Justice Putnam's Court,
when he was sued for a board bill OF
forty-two dollars by Mrs. Emerson,
and when he cried like n big BOBBY
because the Court rendered judgment
against him he having employed two
attorneys to defend him, neither oil
whom appeared In Court, because they
had not been paid for the service ex-
pected to be rendered. In conclusion,
we would say that We believe the