Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-01

Ill-advfsed Efforts of ALI. Charts
Friends.

Friends.
Is II not about time that the ball was set
in motion looking to the release Of ALI.
Chartz from the Carson State Prison ? We
propose that o petition be at once started,
and signed by every newspaper man TN the
State of Nevada, asking for his release.
We do not happen to be in Nevada, or we
would start it ourselves. But we are en-
tirely familiar with the case, and believe
that he is suffering al unjust imprison-
ment, brought about by a local prejudice
which was produced and infiamed by q
dastardly biased description Of the killing
by q newspaper rival, and by q hurried
trial before u Judge seeking political pre-
ferment, and willing, in order to secure it,
to pander to that local feeling. As we
have stated before, we believe Chartz TO
be the victim Of . most unfortunate COM
bination Of eirSuhlstancesj and, while he
was by no means blameless In the matter
Of killing Rickar, he was not guilty of the
crime Of willful and deliberate murder,
inflicted upon him by Judge Cole. We
hope our professional brethren Of the Sage
brush State will stir this matter Up.
We copy the above from the Bodie
Standard, and q more infamous tissue Of
falsehoods was never condensed IN so small
a space. If the statement Of the sriter IL
correct, that he is perfectly familiar with
the case, then, in writing the above. he
willfully and deliberately misstated the
facts. What caused the local prejudice re-
ferred to? Was it not, if any did exist,
because that for nine hours previous to the
killing Chartz was working himself up to q
point in which murder proved a natural
sequence. The assertion that the popular
prejudice was inhamed ''by o dastardly
biased description Of the killing by
a newspaper rival" is in keeping with
the general tenor Of the article.
The SENTINEL is the paper referred to, and
we defy any one to search our files and
find a single comment in our editorial col
umns, or anything in our local department,
save the actual facts as testified to by COM
petent witnesses, both in Court and before
the Coroner's Jury. These were given
without comment, except on August Sd,
after the verdict had been rendered, when
the following appeared in this paper: at
is q sad case all around, and Chartz is en-
titled to that degree Of sympathy due q
weak mind, easily influenced by another
But the Standard, which now SO yehemently
prociaims Chartz's Innocence, about the
! same time publis! I'd an editorial on the
subject, from which We make the following
extracts:
1.-The Virginia Enterprise, in an article
ON the recent tragedy in Eureka, advances
| the idea that the blame for this and SINH
lar affairs falls in no small degree upon all
who in any degree foster public sentiment
which calls for the shedding Of blood in
expiation Of an insult. 1t says that six or
seven years ago Chartz was as soft-hearted
and peaceable q man as lived. If he has
changed and become a rufian it il because
the customs Of this coast have filed his
mind with false ideas alike Of honor and
Of right \ n We have thus far
found no sentiment which could, by any
means, be construed as a prevailing public
sentiment, that calls for an unjustifiable
sacrifice Of human life. We believe that
the fact is recognized here as elsewhere that
the supreme injury which can be O n a
man is to take his life, and that the act is
unjustiiable, except in cases OF self-defenso.
Among honorable men there is, on this
coast, and everywhere else, a method Of
settling conceived or real injuries, without
a resort to bloody reprisals, and we be-
lieve that the real, public sentiment Of the
community sustains that method. 1t is
only among rufians that the sentiment
prevails which will change a 'soft-hearted
and peaceable man into a 'rutiian' in six
or seven years"
The statement that he had "a hurried
trial before a Judge seeking political pre-.
I rment" will be branded as UNANIMOUSLY
false by every one conversant with tho
facts. The jury was as intelligent a ont
as ever tried u case in Nevada, and every
opportunity was given the prisoner to make
= successful defense. No fairer or NOR,
upright man than Judge Cole ever occu,
pieu the bench in any State, aud the asper
sions sought to be thrown upon him will
meet with nothing but contempt from oul
citizens. Should Mr.. Chartz's friends de-
sire TO secure his release they are justified
in using every honorable effort to do so
but they will hardly further his interest,
by maligning those whose only object was
TO do justice, without regard to any sur
rounding Influences.