Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-30
.uNOT GUILTY THE suit brought

."NoT GUILTY. THE suit brought
before His Honor Judge j. Porter Gould on
Friday afternoon attracted large number of
spectators. and was disposed of in manner
lreilecting the highest credit upon the Court
.isld officers. The case was instituted by
Maurice Marks, an itinerant pedler of pinch
back jewellery, against a miner named John
Noble for alleged assault and battery Evil
drncc of the latter was brought into court in
the shape of badly damaged optic AMI the
base foundation of "mansard roof" and the
assault remained to prove. A jury was sum
noned and sworn by his Honor. and the sever
al witnesses pumped dry contribution box
by the direct and redirect questions of the
Bench, whose eru,lition woul wind up the
Beecher trial i'll two days session. Tho bulk
'of testimony elected pointed unswervingy TO
the justification of the defendant, and the case
was finally given to the jury without comment
;as to their action except the defining of the
term used in the complaint. After deiibera-
ton of but few minutes the foreman handed
in a verdict of mot guilty" which was
nounced amid billow of applause in the body
of the house. The remarks of the Court ON
presenting the verdict were listened to with
profound attention and are worthy of being
spread on the records.
GENrLEMEN-During long years of judicial
experince in the Golden State, in the recesses
and gorses of these illimitable mountains of
silver, and on the desert wastes of your sage
cursed plains, it has fallen to my lot to sit in
Judgment on but few cases where the law of
the land has been SO fully vindicated as on
this smiling sunlit evening. In my time,
gentlemen, when the Judicial ermine rested
but insecurity on these broad shoulders, and
when the mandates of this Court were placed
at defiance by the ruthless hands of the reck-
less and bloodthirsty, have seen the head of
the innocent laid low by the hand of the gull
ty. Wrong wrapped its defiant arms around
the polluted form of the agSressor and shield
ed him from the avensing talons of the law
Freedom shrieked and Justice, cowed by the
cohorts of the wicked, folded her protecting
wing and fell harmless from her towering
throne stripped of her majesty and power
This Court. her servant and champion, gentle
men, wept tears Of pity over her PROSTATE
form, but was powerless to stay the ravishing
horde. But, gentlemen, that reign of terror
has passed away. Let the dead past bury its
dead. The glitterins dawn of new and
brighter legal era breaks refulgent over the
handicapped submits of your silver-ribbed
Sierras. The wrinkled face of aged Justice
unwarped by time, once more smiles the sat
listed smile of renovation and renewed energy ;
grim-faced Wrong sits muzzled and sinking in
our presence, while Innocence successfully
pleads exoneration from double-breasted
Crime. There may be those here who would
gainsay this Court; if 20, opportunity will be
afforded outside this tabernacle of peace after
adjournment. Young man, can hardly re-
strain the feelings of this Court if you throw
another cud of tobacco Vt the plaintiff Mercy
dwells on the same throne with Justice, and
the Court will defend him. My noble young
friend, "a jury of your peers have found you un
spotted by crime. Go home, retire to your
closet, and thank God that you are not to Ian
suish in the CALLING chains and gloomy cells
of loathsome prison. Put in good word
for this Court at the throne of grace, and here
after let all your aims be your country's glory.
Unfortunate and misguided plaintiff. nursing
the effects of unlucky battle, accept the SYM
pathy of this Court and the county of Lyon.
who have together given you deliberate and
expensive hearing. Bind up your sorrows in
tho regrets of its taxpayers and your damaged
reputation in resolve to do better in future.
Ambition aud arnica will soon put you on
yol,r pegs again. The Court excuses Won.