Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-14
SKINNER. THE BRUTE.
Singular Conduct and "Card" of
the Acfiug nisf~fcs asfo.uav


the Acting District Attorney.
The SENTINEL yesterday morning gave Z
full and correct account Of the brutal and
cowardiy beating of Mrs. Stella Echeverria
by her husband, AL. Echeverria, better and
more appropriately known as AL. Skinner,
The particulars of the affair and the
names Of the parties to it were known to
our contemporary the evening previous,
but the milksops who control that paper
contented themselves with a mere allusion
to the matter and suppressed the names.
The Acting District Attorney, John T.
Baker, who constituted himself the law,
Judge and jury, and released Skinner on
the payment of S31 so, on the promise OF
getting out of the country, has seen fit to
rush into print to justify his course, and
has thereby placed himself in even q more
%equivocal position than the structures of
the SENTINEL had put him in. However,
Mr.. Baker is best answered by the follow
ing card from the injured
EDITOR SENTINEL: Will you be kind
enough to allow me a little
space in your columns TO con-
tradict the assertions of the Acting
District Attorney, John T. Baker, as pab-
lished over his name in a local paper. /
did not beg and implore him to let my
husband, known as Skinner, out Of Jail.
On the contrary, l told him / would APP
pear in Court, il my injuries permitted it,
to prosecute him. Mr.. Bakers statement
is entirely untrue. There were two wit
nesses present, who will bear me out in
this. I did tell Mr.. Baker that 1 would
rather see my husband out of the country
than in the Jail, for / was afraid he would
be let out on bail, and he would then seek
me out and kill me. Mr.. Baker tells an
other falsehood when he says there was no
one to make a complaint or give him any
particulars in regard to the affair. He
was fully informed OF every incident by
Lizzie Nuttall, who has kindly given up
her rooms to me, and who intended to
lodge the complaint because Twas unable
to move. Mr.. Baker states also that in
bis estimation / was not much injured.
His own words were that he never saw a
woman more cruelty and inhumanly beaten
in his life, and thought my injuries suffi-
GENTLY serious to hold Skinner in Jail until
their nature was fully determined upon.
He says everything was hnshed. How o
man holding the position he does can face
a community with such deliberate false
hoods is something / cannot understand.
Now, Mr.. Editor, please allow me a few
words to answer the article in the evening
paper, which seeks to do me a great in
justice. / am AL. SINNERS wife, and as
such have lived up to my marriage vows.
l left him last Saturday. and instituted
proceedings for a divorce on the grounds
OF adultery and cruel treatment. Better
women than myself have suffered more at
the hands of their husbands than / did
hafnra fhAv haua raanrta6 m O nroaaal
ing for a final separation. /
was compelled to seek my own liv-
ing, and he found me serving drinks to
a man. He knocked me down, and while
l was in q bewildered state, forced me to |
accompany him to our former home, where
he beat me until / was insensible. was
lawfully married to the man, and not his
mistress. / thought it was q public jour-
nails duty to do justice to every person,
whatever their station in life. No one
connected with the evening paper came to
see me-, and | suppose they are sorry / was
not killed. l was considered dangerously
injured by the doctor who is attending
me, as he told those about me, and my
bruises and wounds remain as evidence.
But it is meet that a poor, helpless and
woman should be made the subject
for a moral lecture. This is the boosted
manhood OF those who kick and abuse us
to hold our affections. Yours.
STELLA E~cHEyERRIA.
1t is needless to,add another word to this
communication. 1t gives the entire story
in a plain way, but it places Mr.. Baker and |
our evening contemporary in a humiliating
position before the public. Mr.. Baker was
evidently not in a normal condition when
he pepned his card or performed the du-
Of the District Attorneyship, and can
therefore'not be held to a strict accounts
bility for his acts. Consequently we are
fain to overlook his shortcomings. The
other party rs only deserving of contempt.
The SENTINEL always strives to do its
duty to the public as a newspaper. 1t will
.ienounce men and their acts just as their
deserve, setting down naught in
1t will show the same spirit of
~fairness to the denizens of Buel street as
t will to the residents of Mob Hill, and
will not shield a public officer when he is
deserving of censure for his official acts.