Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-11
GRAND JURY.

Jury, consisting of the fo:l"ying gen.l
H. 8. Nilsson, merchant; j. w. Adams
Lieutenant Governor; Pete: G vlnangn, Jr.
baker; NJ. r. Estner, Deputy Sheriff; J. L
Beam, drayman; Lloyd HUI, Sheriff Jorr
Schooling, State Treasurer; e. r. E rod
stable keeper; John S AIhro, c'erk D,vi,
Bigler, Meter in Mint; John Black. ha,
keeper; b. r. Ellsworth, mill Aln; b J
Foster, Public Administrators; >. E. jones
stable keeper; D. H. l. -ntz. plumber; A. j
Lockwood, ex-senator; w. :. Mnodr, carpet,
ter; made their final report and were dis
charged by his Honor judge King. II .
Grand Jury report havlnG found Indictment.
as follows: John Davis "nd D IN he Dac 50
assault with intent to kill; VIM. Iitr: anC
VIM. Wilson, burglary; FAyotra KING an
Napoleon Butts, for political "tfemSes; and
three indictments against Isaac Nee, 'nne 70
embezzlement. They report having made d
careful examin ltion into the official cpnduc
of all county officers and fad everything Coz.
rect. There Is nothing further parricu arl,
worthy of note except that they recommend
north wall of the jail i'll the County lilding>
six feet north into Bosko's vacant store Now
this wall is stone wall tw" feet il Thickness.
extending through the entire building from
below the surface of the ground h. he roo
Of the building. We shall walt with d smile
while the Commissioners set abunt moving
this wall, which of course they will do.
One thing in their report Is worthy Of note.
At the close of the report the Grand Jnr.
extended their thanks to all county officers
late District Attorney.
We have always found the ex- District At
torney to be a courteous gentlemen, and We
have made some inquiry as to the reason t"i
the Grand Jury making an exception in his
case and learn that all went smoothly between
District Attorney Coffin and the Grand Jury
until indictments were found against Fayettt
King and Napoleon Butts for some pplItict
offenses and the indictments We're presented
to Coffin for his signature. Coffin declined t"
sign them. His reasons We're asked for,
whereupon he proceeded to give them, whel'
the temperature of the j"ry room rose 400
degrees in four minutes. We understand
that the District Attorney gave rs his frs
reason that he could not believe from al, thu
evidence that King was guilt,
of any otfense, aud that Butts
otfese was so slight that no conviction conio
ever be secured upon the character of evi |
dence that the prosecution must rely upon. |
and that among many other reasons he mad, |
the statement that, having some sort of an
eye to the eternal fitness of things, it appeared
to him like joke farce for any Grand |
Jury to indct either King or Butts for poiti
Gal "ffenses while there were men In Carson
of unquestoned standing i'll politics and
society, OF both Political parties, who had
spent thousands OF dollars to prevent fan
and honest election, while all that alleged
against Butts was that he worked all day on
Of his father u the office IF County Com
missioner and in the evening laid s. on the
end of a stick of cord wood and never went
back to get it, hoping thereby to secure an
other vote for his father; hat 1t appeared t"
him like going on grizzly bear hunt, and
when it was ascertained that the pursuit ut
grizzlies was fraught with danger to the pur-
uers, recalling it and organizing 1t in" Il
mouse hunt, and when two small mice had
,eeu caught abandoning the chase entirely
We are informed that the District Attorney. |
orgetting himself, was reckless enough t.
ay that he believed there were men sitting |
;pon the Grand jury the en"rnity of whose
olitical crimes and Uffenses was mountain
us by the side of mole hills when compared | /
With anything that Long King or Nap Butts
YER did do or ever cnuld do, so he thought
hat it would not look well for that Grant
ury to find any political indictments ant
dvised them to drop the political business
together. To this the jury took exceptions, ,
nd declined thanking him for courtesics.
We have seen ex District Attorney Coffin,
rho pleads guilty to having said and done ii q
cry discourteous thing befole the Grand {.
ury, but still insists that all he said was the
ruth, all the same
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