Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-29
DICK OSBORNE.

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In Sundays issue of the SENTINEL
we published an item regarding the re-
capture of Dick Osborne, the man who
escaped from custody in July last, and
his being brought back in irons and
put in his old quarters in the county
Jail. We have received the following
letter from Tybo in regard to the mat
ter :
EDITORS SENTINEL Il take the lib
erty to address you a few lines, re-
Questing your indulgence to read the
same. About two months ago a young
man named Richard Osborne came t o
this place, and was still here until this
morning, when an excitement in one
of the neighboring saloons attracted
nay attention, and IN going to see what
| was up, / found Osborne resisting the
officer on duty, who was trying to put
| irons on him and take him to Eureka,
at which place, / found out later, he
had been sentenced some time ago to
$50 days i'm prisonment or $500 fine for
assault and battery.
During his stay here this young man
has carried himself in an orderly man
ner, and had been engaged by Isaac
Phillips as a cook in his restaurant,
and was very much pleased with the
young mans services, being just the
kind of a man he needed. Taxing all
the circumstances in consideration, L
and many more good citizens of Typo
request you to give q little interest to
the young mans case. He Is well
known in Eureka, where he always
earned a living, "not on faro " or
:" sparring about as a hoodlum," but
as q street peddler of vegetables, fish,
etc., and to put such a mar in irons for
such a petty crime is to stamp him q
criminal, and he is young yet and has
a long career before him.
Yours respectfully,
CHAS. b. STREITBERGER.
Typo, Aug. "A, 1876.
We are afraid that our correspondent
and the many good citizens of Typo
have only heard one side of the story,
and in order that they can better I'M
stand the matter we will tell the other.
Some months since this man Osborne
was arrested for assault and battery
and was sent to Jail. we believe, for
thirty days for the offense. While
serving out this sentence he gave the
Sheriff all the trouble possible, was at
the head of a mutlny among the pris-
oners, broke up the cups, plates and
tinware which WAS sent in with their
meals, and toward the last of his term
struck a fellow prisoner over the head
with a club, severely injuring him,
For this a charge vas preferred against
him, and when his first sentence had
expired he was again arrested and by
Justice Beatty fined $500 or the alter
native of $50 days in the County Jail.
He took the latter. A short time after
his second Incarceration he complained
of being sick, and refusing to eat the
food sent TO the prisoners he appeared
to be getting worse. The Sheriff did
all in his power to allie viate him in his
supposed distress, and a number of
citizens hearing of his situation inter-
ested themselves in his behalf and sue
ceeded in having him removed to the
County Hospital. He was removed
there during the afternoon and the
neat morning Dick Osborne was
"0ver the hills and far away"
In return for the kind treatment he
had received from those who had
trusted him, he took the first oppor-
tunity to escape. Nothing more was
heard of him until a short time since,
when the Sheriff, hearing he was in
Tybo, had him arrested and brought
back here, where he now is, and it is
safe to he will stay here for at
least the remainder of his term OF inn
prisonment-
AS to his general character, we have
taken a little pains to inquire into it
and find that it will not bear investiga-
ton. We hope the good citizens Of
Typo and our correspondent, now that
they have heard both sides of the story,
will not think that the man is a victim
to misguided justice, and will agree
with the people here that he has got
only what he deserved.
THOSE IMPORTE MINERS.-Tha I'm