Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-13

There sss good many Canon nsvs-
paper ssedess sho we're not % opprss-
sive'y ssa sspsisivsiy pious . 10 stay
away f'oo TIE thssiss The night that Joe
Cooarn bed bis spss.isg match With
Con. Mooney. some yssIs ego. These and
others VII b interested In some Of Jos's
sayings SD doines nov that bi. hard
old head IL 10 chancssy for ten pspise..
siai yes.s. Joe kept . saloon In Nes
York. All retired prizs fighters keep
saloons bot Awful Gardner. sud be
got religion in the camp nsssin' way.
One night poIicemss stuck his head in
Joe's door and let Il b known. I, 4
brief speech. that hs could. II one Lynch
would come outside. let him bsov What
vas Whist. Instead Of Lynch, Joe
responded. ~ proxy. Then ne and the
"cops" had On unplsasantness. They
manled Joe good BIT with their laurel.
wood clubs. aud then hs shot one Of EN-
so he was arrested. and, O. tho world
Knows. he has been convicted Of asssuI,
to kill and been sentenced 10 ten years
IN the State Prison. On being inter.
viewed BY . veracious Herald reporter
Joe expressed il ~ his opinion tina. bis
drsm-selling trade Vas too profitable TO
please his neighbors. and that these on.
vious parties brought on bis troubles.
"That. Of course" said Joe, would p.
have amounted to much II the police
hadn't been employed to get the incon.
venience out Of the way. Now, il / had
allowed those officers 10 batter mo into
. jelly and bring mo 10 the station house.
like nine out Of ten Of the poor devils
who como into this place, II would have
been oil right; they'd havo elvsn me ten
days. and that would have boon On end
OF il. The worst they could say abou.
me was that I'd fight. And what kind
OF a sucker do you think man 10 tina.
stands still and let's lot OF loafers club
him just because they've got brass but.
sonss never offered them any ipsul,
or broke tho peace until / thought my
life was in danger. The papers, you
know. convicted mo before I vas in.
dicted. II wasn's enough for them 10
make up records for no. but they CON.
pared No to . wolf and to 4 dog, and
when everything else gave out they be.
gan to blsckguard my looks. Everybody
In New York read these things. and 70.
collections and impressions Of the read.
Jog were brought into the jury box. Any
sensible man who looks into the facts Of
the case csn'tf fail 10 sec that they never
paid bit Of attention TO tho evidence I
submitted. The District Attorney made
them believe the whole case was kind
OF gibe. When they got into tho Jury
room they took . ballot, and, on the
first ballot they stood eleven to ono for
conviction. without ever having discus.
sed the evidence. Immediately thew
took another ballot and was convicted.
Then they waited fifteen minutes. for
what don't know, before coming into
court. You can see from this that thew
took the District Attorneys word for
everything. and they carried bis speech
and the recollection OF the Newspaper
articles into the room and settled their
account with mo. From the way the
newspapers argued my case before ever
Vas tried il appeared that II the charge
sRainss mo failed ought to got twen,y
years on general principles; II / WASH I
guilty Of this charge l com mitted muir.
der or some other awful crime some
years back. and was only getting justice
done 70 me now. Itwas kind Of Gen.
sral squaring up. The papers had i.
heads you win. tails We lose. They
vero bound TO get me up. II the jury
had besn half ~ square and jus. a. tho
Judge ! wouldn't be In here to-day. He
made The fairest charge ever heard. He
said. III there's any doubt; give the ben.
sfs to the prisonsr.' That gang didn't
have any doubts. their minds we're made
up even before they heard the evidence.
hope to get . now trial and fair Jury
to sis on my case, and II l do the verdict
won't be Ike that Of last night"