Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-01
THE TRIAL.
A Good Man Murdered-A Sad Per.
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jury. 1t is said four stood for conviction
and eight for acquittal. The tragedy oc
CURED, it will be remembered, on the 14tt
OF last March, in the saloon OF Callan a
Barry, Montgomery street, San Francisco
Captain Adams had just left Carson, after
the close of tho Legislature. and went
down to San Francisco to settle some bust.
ness affairs of the Silver Lick mine in Eu.
reka. He was at the time a large share.
holder and Acting Superintendent Of this
mine, and had been at the first its founder
and moving spirit. Into it he had taken
Adolph Schander and James Oliver az
partners, who furnished little or no CAPT
tai and who left the burden of carrying
the mine mainly upon Captain Adams
shoulders. Lately they began to demand
full thirds with the Captain, without,
however, advancing any money or pur-
chasing part Of his stock, but simply re-
questing him to sign a certificate Of Joint
partnership with equal shares. Some
correspondence had passed before the Cap
tain left Eureka, in which Schander used
threatening and insolent language to the
former, because he would not simply sign
away to him his own 1.-THE Captain's) stock.
The Captain, OF course, refused to yield
to the last, and under pretence of talking
the matter over, they asked him to go into
Callan & Barry's saloon On Montgomery
street. Finding they could do nothing in
the way of bullying, Schander contrived
to shoot him, the Captain not drawing his
pistol until it was too late.
On the witness stand Schander and
Oliver both testified that Adams had struck
Schander and knocked him down, when
the latter drew his pistol in self-defence
and fired four shots at the Captain. This
10 their story. In his dying statement
Adams says: 81 did not strike or attempt
to strike Schander. He and Oliver had
put up the job to freeze me out Of the
mine" A witness, 0'Donnell, who hap
pened to be standing in the saloon and saw
the whole affair, being an entire stranger
to all parties, says: at was a foul MUIR
der"
Over all this, eight of that jury saw fit
to acauit Schander, while four only saw
the strength Of the case and held out
against it. To make matters worse, Muir
ply, the lawyer employed to assist the
prosecution and who had been paid his fee
in advance, suddenly had other business
and deserted the case. L. C.. Marshall, the
Assistant District Attorney, had to fight
alone against four attorneys for the defence,
OF whom Hall McAllister was one. But
the browning injustice OF all was that each
man before impeachment was asked il he
were q native Of Ireland and il SO, quickly
excused. 1t would have been as fair to the
other side that native Americans should
have also been excused.
| Now after all tho froubla and axnopca NJ
a long trial, another has to be given, when
witnesses are scattered, events forgotten
and the public notice almsst lost sight Of.
1t seems outrageous that out Of more
than 400 murders during the last year in
California, only two or three scoundrels
have been hung, and every jury, anxious
to appear liberal, but blind TO duty, allows
murderer after murderer to 60 u~nwhipped
and unhung.
The hosts OF friends whom Captain
Adams had made both in California and
Nevada will hear with regret that after be-
ing shot down in cold blood, his murderer
walks the streets OF San Francisco boldly
and shamelessly.
.Schander, like Guiteau, has led an aim
less and thriftless life, leaning forever on
friends, and many a time upon Captain
Adams himself. Like Guiteau, too, he
was so depraved and irritable that his wife
was Obliged to seek q divorce from him,
and ever since his course has been down
ward. He has now struck bottom, and W.
sincerely hope the juries Of San Francisco
will stop and check for once the spirit of
lawlessness in their midst. Could they
have seen the long procession OF carriages
and sympathizing friends that followed
poor Adams body from the Oakland Ferry
to the San Lorenzo Cemetery, increasing
at each stage OF the journey until 1t
stretched a distance Of nearly two miles,
and could they have witnessed the last sad
rites over the noble-hearted man, we i'm
agine they would rise in their manhood
and put down a most decisive check upon
his assassin. Could this jury have entered
the Receiving Hospital and have beheld
the painful struggle with death for three
long days, and could they have witnessed
his manly resignation to his fate, then they
would have some just appreciation Of the
enormity OF the deed and the terrible suf-
fering undergone before death came to his
relief. Then. we think, their vision might
be clear enough TO see their plain duty; to
see the debt they owe to the brother and
cousin here and the other relatives in the
East; while glancing away across the At
lantic TO the north OF Ireland they might
see the brow and hear the wall
ing OF an aged mother, who longs for the
letter that comes not and signs for the boy
she nursed and loved. They might hear
her exclamation, winging it's way over
ocean and land, through city after city,
and finally from the gray-coated carrier,
II hope God will leave my reason with
me-"
On Sunday, March 81, Captain James
Adams spentth afternoon with his cousin,
James Adams ST., at San Lorenzo. On
Monday he was shot, on Thursday be was
dead and the next Sunday his body was
inferred in his cousins lot in the San
Lorenzo Cemetery.