Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-02
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Another sample 81 his Peculiar Method
Of Contrasting News lesnAs.
Below We append another telegram from
Yanktoa 10 the Chicago Tribups, dated.
Nosenbef 1esh. II is dsubtllse ID sman.
alton ftoa the elastic taasinasion Of the
gentlemen who 10 also correspondent Of the
st. Paul Pioneer Prese. The author EVIL
IDENTIFY gets his information from hesrsay.
because what be says 10 incorrect In the
main. II he had heard oil the evidence IN
the case he could not have sent such .
gsrbled account which 10 . reflection upon
the twelve men selected By the prasoner.
Carl Joban Hanson. and his able counsel,
Messrs. Smith, spiok and Tripp, to decide
upon the facts In the case. Here 10 tho
dispatch: .,3.s
Yankton, Nov. GA most remarkable
verdict Was brought In last night 10 the
territorial court 10 the case Of Carl Hanson
charged with the murder of his father. In
June. There was not . particle of positive
testimony, and the circumstantial evidence
was confined to the boy's residence with
his father when their house was burned and
the father killed, to the fact that an Ak.
without 10Y spots of blood, was fousd uear
the house, and to the fact that the fathers
skull was fractured. The sons explanation
was that he only had time to escape after
the house was discovered on fire. and the
roof fol. In just after he struck the ground,
brie. Yet the jury found him guilty Of
nH,seAoa ia ehn Gnot AAnrA0 sYrnn MAnAYAl
principles.
This account We are informed isa mon
strous perversion of the facts In the case,
and would lead the reader to infer that the
iurymen who tried the defendant were
themselves guilty of . violation Of their
oaths, o. we're so bloodthirstSr and preju
diced that they found the defendant guilty
on general principles" This is .
Islander, Is those who heard the evidence
in the case. know. II il a fact that suspi-
cion, we're 90 strong and. evidence 70 mani
fest Of a deliberate murder, that certain
members Of the bar, of this city, even before
the axe (which had lain in the James river
nearly two months, was found) went to the
governor and persuaded him to offer a re.
ward for the arrest and conviction Of the
murderer. One Of these g%entlemen) who
subsequently, became counsel for the prison
err also urged the diptrict attorney to prose-
cute the case vigorously. Other just crit
cism might be made WITH reference to THU
dispatch when the real 'factsin the case ar,
produced, but for the present We refrain, be
lieving that the twelve dmenswho tried thi'
case, and heard the evidence acted c%onscien
tiously under their solemn oaths. and ths'
the prisoners able counsel labored e~arnestl.
and honorably to secure an acquittal. They
the jurymen, were men 81 Intelligence and
they being the judge. have .sid guilty. w
trust the writer of this Telegram will here
after more fully inform himself relative I
matters be assumes tossend TO the cities {
the east.
Our criticisms above are not made on a
!. count Of any feeling, bias prejudice or il
: terest we have had in the case Of Carl j
. han Hanson, but because We believe that tn
twelve men who tried the case acted lawful
y and conscientiously, as they were sworl
to do. They heard al the evidence and tn
law bearing upon the Gaze.