Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15

to mistreat any of your neghbors Respect their
rights and their privileges. Hoping and confding in
you as GOOD citizens that you will do it, eaAe the
matterwith You. Applause Just one more thought
1elIow-ctlzens, has occurred to my mind. An officer
OF our county-our Sheriff-informed the railroad
authorities that all was quiet here and that they
ihight resume the operation OF their road and tele
graph line with safety yet they have failed to do it,
Our mails are retained, and it is after they were
duly notified that there is no danger here.
A vote of thanks was rendered to Major
McQulddy and others for their efforts and
! advice for keeping the peace
The following resolutions were then unani-
mously adopted
ResoLced, That it is the of this people that
there is not now, nor has there ever been, any
danger In the running OF trains the forwarding OF
the mails by this road.
Resolced, That it is considered clearly breach of
contract with the United States Government on the
part of the railroad authorities in not delivering the
mails at this time
The Settlers League have transmitted the
following message to Washington
To the Secretary of the United States Senate
The journals Of the Senate and House will show
that we have done all in power for an nvestga-
ton OF our case Seven citizens have been murdered
we pray that our case be heard. We hold the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company responsible for
their blood and for the future trouble the Mussel
Slough country. Answer if received.
Sgned-J. j. Doyle, t. j. MaQuiddy J. w Pat
terson, A. Tyner, Settlers Committee.
The settlers appear jubilant over the fact
that the Government will not use armed force
to enforce civil processes, and that the fight is
to be left to the railroad and settlers alone.
A. d. Hartt will be buried tomorrow at 10
o'clock A. NJ.
TelegrapEic and railroad communications
have been resumed. The first train arrived
at Hanford at o'clock this afternoon, and
nearly the whole male portion of the town
were at the depot to meet it.
Sentenced 10 Death = The Last or the
MendocinO Outlaws Doomed TO Die
His statement Before sentence-Re.
marks OF the Judge.
UKIAH, May 14th.-John F. Wheeler was
brought into Court yesterday morning
promptly at 10 o'clock, and on being inter-
rosated as to whether he had anything to say
why the sentence of the Court should not be
passed upon him, replied that he had not,
but with the permission of the Court he
would like to make statement.
This being granted, he proceeded to give an
account of his life since his release from San
Quentin. He stated that he had never commit
ted crime against the law since his discharge
from imprisonment, and had lived the life of
good citizen that ever since his discharge
ilc DCCu DCSCb ny GA-CUuNlCIS anu IOrC6u
to give up to them all the money he had
earned, in order to keep them from exposing
the fact that he had been in prison. He said |
that Carr was traitor, coward and perjured |
villain, and that the only time he had any, |
thing to say to him was when he saw him in |
the hotel at Mendocino, at which time he |
demanded a gun and 80 in money, saving he |
was on his way to Washington Territory. |
Wheeler claimed that Dollard and Wright |
were personal friends of his, and that no man |
could say that he had ever done anything to |
injure friend. He further said that re-
port had been circulated by men who were |
then in the Courtroom, for the purpose of |
prejudicing his case, that his wife was a bad |
woman, and that he was not married to her, |
which he pronounced false, saying that she |
is good Christian woman and his lawful |
wife. He said he had no hope of escaping. |
and that he would go upon the gallows an in |
nocent man, and with the consciousness that |
he had never sworn away the life of a human
being. Looking straight at the Judge, he |
said Ii it has never been your misfortune
to pass sentence upon an innocent man be-
fore, you are about to do so now" and imme-
diately folded his arms across his breast and
. | am ready for the sentence"
He occupied about ten minutes in delivering
his statement, which was entirely impromptu.
Judge Presley remarked that had he made
this statement to the jury it might possibly
have had some weight with them in deter
mining the verdict but that now il was too
late, and all he had to do was to pronounce
the sentence of the Court in accordance with
the verdict rendered, which he did in the fol-
lowing language:
John F. Wheeler: You have been charged with
the highest crime known to human as well as Divine
law, and of this charge, after a fair and full trial
you have been convicted by jury of Your country
men, sworn to try the case and to render a verdict
in accordance with the proof. You have been very
ably defended. Your counsel have been persistent
and have with pertnacty and skill contested every
point made against you The same laws which YOU
have broken have given you the means OF presenting
anything by way OF defense exculpation that
would tend to establish your iunocenceior to extern
uate your acts After hearing all that you have
offered in your defense, jury OF intelligent
and unbiased men have found you guilty,
and after proof of circumstances which di,
vest your crime of the glamour which surrounds
bold and daring robbery and murder you re-
mained in the back ground and had your work done
by confederates. II the circumstances detailed by
the witnesses are true, and the jury have found
them to be so, you the master spirit of one of
The most diabolica conspiracies which has perhaps
ever been entered into within the limits of this
county. man who had never harmed you was to
have been robbed, and the funds intrusted to him
oy virtue OF his Office taken away and divided among
you and your subordinates in crime. In order to
larry on your nefariOus purposes you compassed | ,
he death of any citizen who might attempt to in
erfere with your plans. The result was the death
If estimable citizen of this county, young man
n the prime Of life and vigor of manhood, cut
iown without a moments warning, and that by men
lnder your c0mmand-cowardly secreting them ,
eIves and shooting from ambush. The fate
which has at last overtakeu you is but the lust de-
erts OF the acts shown by the testimony to have
,een done by you. Your present condition is but
mother proof of the scripture, which says that the
way of the transgressor is hard. do not desire to
narrow up, your feelings or inflict any more pain
lpon you than my duty as one OF the ministers of
ustice requires me to do. will not prolong this
% me, painful scene further than to advise YOU to
prepare to meet the awful fate which will surely ;
,vertake you. have endeayored to give you fair
rial. | am not now aware of any errors com | ,
nitted by me to your prejudice. am glad
% know that ii | have committed any, and if YOU
AVE been deprived of any right, there is tribunal
which will correct them, and To which you may
axe your case If you SO desire. / hope no human | !
,eiug will ever by any mistake of mine be ushered
nto the presence of the great Judge who will finally
ward to every one the Just deserts of his deeds
md that without possibility of error think YOU
iced not look to any power short of Omnipotence |
or pardon of the crime of which you have been
onvcted. | advise you to dismiss from your mind
III hope of human aid, and look alone to Him who ,
though your sins be as scarlet can make them |
White as WOOL" Your sentence and the judgment
# the Court is that you be by the Sheriff OF Men
ocino county hanged by the neck until you are
lead, and may God have mercy your soul. A {
warrant will hereafter be issued out of and under
he seal of this Court fixing Friday the I'd day of
uly next between the hours of IL o'clock NJ and 3
clock P. NJ. as the time for the execution Of the
Judgment.
The TuIare TroubIe-FuneraI of One of !
the Victims at stockton.
STOCKTON, May 14th.-The funeral of W.
I. Crow, one of the men killed in the Tulare
rouble, took place this morning at Rural (
cemetery. The attendance of relatives and /
riends was large, and much sympathy is ex- {
ressed for the widow, who has been residing 6
n Stockton for some three or four weeks past. ,