Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-18
THE ANDERSON TRAGEDY.
A Dispassionate Review Of
the Whole Case.
WAS THERE MURDER WHO FIRED
THE FIRST SHOT?
The Enterprise "Ghoul' Opens
a Grave.

The Territorial Enterprise, pupllsneu III
Virginia City, presuming to know more
about the unfortunate Reek-Anderson
affair at that distance from the scene OF
the tragedy than witnesses in Eureka,
makes a p%retentious and malicious effort
in a long leading article in its Wednesday
issue to show that the ''people of Eureka
County have been hoodwinked in this mat
ter by accessories to that crime and by
their own law officers, and that when they
fully realize its atrocity they will see that
the plot to make a mockery OF justice in
their midst is defeated" This is about
the gist and tenor of the vicious and in
cendiary article. 1t ends its drunken and
libelous drivel with the following infam-
matory speech: 1.-THE whole affair is a
travesty of Justice, and there should be no
peace until this man Reek is brought to
his trial for murder"
THE 'sENTINEL's'' ATTITUDE.
The Eureka SENTINEL has refrained from
discussing this case, and has preferred for
reasons of evident propriety, to publish
only the naked facts in it. The SENTINEL
was unwilling to PREJUDICE the case, and
deemed it but right and decent to await
the proper unbiased judicial investigation
of the matter. 1t published all the teati-
mony that could be obtained on the day of
the killing; it gave the report of the Cor
oner's inquest verbatim while it sub
mitted to the public the evidence brought
out in the preliminary examination, just
as it was taken down by Justice Har-
---- a. .1a- - 4-l-., Io-r ~ hIa
own handwriting, being used as printers
copy.
GARBLED REPORTS.
After giving this statement, the proof
of which is already in the minds of our
readers, but which could be substantiated
very readily if it were worth the while to
refute the contemplate scandal of the
Territorial Enterprise, we dismiss the
charge. Says that once honorable and
influential, but now puerile and prosti-
tuted, sheet: 1--WE accept the SENTINEL's
report of the preliminary examination
because we have had access to no other,
and we accept it with the belief that it is
not an impartial report, inasmuch as the
editor of that journal betrays his own
bias, in the issue in which it is presented
to the public"
The Enterprise, for some reason or
other, has studied the case er pdIte, and
knows that this statement is false. Its
animus in the matter is an outside con-
sideration, which will be looked into
further on. 1t has been persistent in its
efforts ever since the fatal shooting scrape
to make a weapon out of the affair. Its
first endeavor was to use it in the election
to wound Mr.. Cassidy. 1t then held the
Eureka SENTINEL ''morally responsible"
Go, k-lo,g,ps, 1aoth tHic l1on1 ~ II
said, was upon its hands, and could not
be washed off. 1t failed in its first inten-
ton, but has been harping on the same
string at spasmodic intervals ever since.
What its more recent purpose is, what it
had in mind to accomplish by its blood
%and-thunder article of Wednesday, is not
so apparent, but is not altogether unac-
countable. Wrought up to a pitch of
frenzy by an exposure the SENTINEL made
about u week ago of its forgery of dis
patches, to which clearly proved charge 1t
could not reply. it aimed a crazy blow at
the SENTINEL, which involves the imputa-
ton gratuitously cast upon Judge Daven-
port, John T. Baker and Justice Harmon,
of winking at. and being accessories to,
the crime of murder. The SENTINEL
showed how the Enterprise, for election
eering purposes. manufactured an Assoc
ciated Press dispatch from Eureka to the
effect that Cassidy, Adams and Stone were
swapping off the rest Of the Democratic
ticket to secnre their W election at the
expense of defeat to the others on the
ticket with them. The inference was logi-
cally advanced that other dispatches Of the
same nature published in the Enterprise
were also bogus as the charge was false
and the Eureka dispatch was a lie. There
Is no wonder that any newspaper, with
pretensions to decency in journalism,
should smart under suoh an accusation
satisfactorily proved; but that 1t should
dive deeper into filth and taoitly admit
the charge and try to get even by a Police
Gazette article, such as Wednesdays is,
could not have been looked for from any
but an utterly depraved, shameless and
insane newspaper. The SENTINEL has
branded the Enterprise IA one of she con-
Rcienceless Journals Of the Nevada press
In connection with its manufacture OF bo-
gus dispatohes-whioh brand 1t now seers
in upon the skin of its brazen forehead
and this is the animus OF that now aban-
doned newspaper.
THE REX CARD.
The Enterprise has wrung in all the
sensational changes on the now notorious
Reek card, for the qualification of its W
spite In its frenzied efforts to fix the "mors
al responsibility" for Anderson's death
upon the SENTINEL for its publication.
The SENTINEL protested earnestly and
long, snd with all its ingenuity, against
printing it.. 1t was a GARD that the SEN
TINEL did not like, which it condemns as
heartily as anybody, the Enterprise
not excepted. Such a card wonld
not haye originated in this Office.
In fact tho card did not meet with
the approval Of its ostensible author.
Mr.. Reek did not write it. His
father-in.law, F. j. Mette, wrote it in q fit
of passion, and poured all of the gall of his
nature into it. The SENTINEL had with
stood the opportunities of Mr.. Mette to
publish the card, which was on its way to
the stove, when, upon going out OF the
front door Of the SENTINEL office, he was
met by Mr.. Reok. The two then came in
together. Mr.. Reek read what his father
in-lsw had written, hesitated Il minute as
if bordering, and remarked that "the Ian
gusge WAS more emphatic tsSn hs would
have usad," but said "let 1t co." The two
mon then joined their entreaties TO have
tho card inserted, which was done. II
appsared as an advertisement with Mr..
lteek's name aligned to il. The response
bility for its publication, which doubtless
was the final cause in Il series leading up
to Mr.. Anderson's death, rests with Mr..
Reek entirely and alone. 1t is ruleabie
in q printing office 10 publish any such
matter as an advertisement If the law is
not violated by the publication. The re.
fusal to do 80 rests with the manager OF
the paper if he sees fit not to publish.
Moreover, in times Of great heat, in a
nolitical campaign greater latitude is al
/ lowed in such matters. And Reek's case
was PECULIAR. He was being vitality at
tackled by his own party newspaper, which
l was breaking him down in his social stand
ing and In his candidacy for office The
quarrel came on the eve OF election when
Mr.. Reek thought that a bare denial would
not suffice, and when q controversy, viii
his personsl enemy, backed by a daily news