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wronged my home, my heaven, my family in this
life He is the unhappy cause of the whole of my
dear family being wrapped up with shame and dis
grace and crushed down with sorrow and woe the
unhappy cause OF this sad mirage before your
Honor at the present moment the unhappy cause
for this unfortunate soul 70 be begging for his life at
this present moment-for he ruined my home,
ruined my wife and ruined my child in such a man
ner that dare not repeat it again, for it drives
wild with love and hate-love for the dear family Of
my heart and hate for that cruel and false friend
God forgive him. That is my best wish for him
that God may forgive him and keep him in his
peace.
Now, we all know that your Honor is q man of in.
tegrity, man OF honor. a man with a big heart,
who loves the treasure that you have at your home
man with big heart, that loves the purity and
dignity Of human nature. will ask your Honor il
you could sit by and fold your hands in the most
calm and indifferent manner ard see tine base fend
lead his dirty poison and cruel shame-to torture
your very life end poison your dear familv-and let
him still break suffering mothers hearth Could
your Honor have stood by aud still gaze on in 81.
lence and not raise your hand against the lust Of
that terrible fiend who was the complete destroyer
OF your whole family! Is that our mission in this
life? Is that the way we want to meet our great
God Almighty on the day of judgment and account
to Him for the family that BE holds us responsible
fori Is that the way that We have sworn by the
great God Almighty TO love- cherish and protect
our dear family until death would call us forth?
pray to the great heaven that your Honor will
raise against such evil doings. hope that your
1OutI VIII lOOh at my sore -nearI and torture
aud trouble and PAIN and will allow it to rise and
fly to my home bringing happiness to those hearts
that have been SO long filed with sorrow and woe
know there are souls in this world. 1 know there
are souls In the State Of California | know there
are souls in the county ard city Of Sacramento |
know there are souls in the hearing of my voice at
this present moment that are willing and ready to
JON hands and help to right this great wrong that
has been done 20 me and to the whole OF my dear
family. know that
EVERY RIGHT HEARTED MAN AND WOMAN IN
THE CITY
VIII be glad TO see ouch work done, for this is a
battle only fol love and home. Remember your
Honor, tint am not the only one in this world who
has slain the destroyer Of his dear family, OF his
home, OF his peace and happiness in this world but
| am the most unfortunate Of ALL If your Honor
cannot lay this verdict aside, and il it does no. lie
within your power 10 give me my liberty and 10 let
me go out and care for my dear family and to 20
and protect them, the-same as have done always
then, il it docs not lie within your power there is
nothing for me TO do but 10 console myself that
am laying down my life for my dear family for
their defense, for their protection, for their honor
But my death will not compensate to my
dear family for all the wrongs and deep iniu.
ries which that cruel false friend has inflicted upon
the whole Of my dear family, but we'll know that
my death viii not atone TO them for anything but
unfortunately it viii add to their unfortunate con-
dtIon, for then they win be deprived entirely Of
thei. natural rights ia this world, and il will de-
prive them entirely OF the person whom they
honor, and it will deprive my dear child Of the arm
that would shield and guard her from all degrada
tons and from drifting into the lowest dregs of
degradation and disgrace, and would keep her from
being degraded and
FROM HAVING HER LITTLE SOUL sOILED.
pray in the name Of God and in the name of jug
tice aud decency, and in the name of holiness and
virtue and sanctity-I beg your Honor as well as
every in the State Of California to attend to it
and that the sanctifed holiness OF the conse-
oFal, sII1oi or CALI
virtue and purity Of our homes and the rights of the
father and husband be honored, protected and en-
couIaged, whether black or white, whether rich or
poor. 1t seems to me that should never cease
struggling against these wretches who produce
these terrible calamtie5 upon the whole If our dear
families and drives them TO the lowest dregs of
disgrace and degradation.
Now, will beg your Honor, and pray that the
great God will come down to your Honors heart at
once, and that Your HonoTs heart may be at home
with your treasure at this present moment and then
with your heart full OF justice, you will see that
this is battle only for love and home. for honor,
and for loves dear sake for the happiness OF my
dear family for the protection Of their honor and
let your Honor then how my heart was
wounded and crippled and then swollen by torture
to such an enormous size, which drove me crazy.
Every time got sight OF that cruel man ny blood
seemed TO be excited 1t seemed to excite the very
blood in my yeins; it seemed to actually change
to desperation, the same it would have done
to every who dearly and thoroughly loves his
dear family at home. | could have killed myself
many times | actually believe, but my duty as
THE SON OF AN AGED AND WIDOWED MOTHER,
Whom love 80 dearly, and who is still in need Of
my assistance, and as husband and the father OF q
dear ehil5 who still need my arm to protect their
honor restrained me, or it would have driven me TO
desperation. Now, your Honor, friend of hui
maDity, beg you to help and reta me, and still
maintain me; protect them the same as I have al
ways done.< And now that your Honor has told me
that it would be better 20 have reporter take this
7 oil 1-et Nth j1sff ra
remarks. But hope that you will form a commit
tee OF SIX men, or Twelve men or more, TO 90 down
and give me- hearing, and to hear completely and
fully my stcry; end wish your Honor would send
somebody down stairs to take ny whole statement.
1 want to tell from the very moment became ac-
qusinted with this cruel man up to the moment Of
my bitter degradation. | want to repeat it all.
DO NOT WANT TO DIE sHADowED WITH
THAT MYSTERY.
want my friends and all good citizens and the
moral sentiment of this city to keep my memory
not as q murderer, but man who has died for
Just and holy cause the most Just and holy cause
that has existed in the hi tory of civilized men.
ask my friends to remember that, and hope your
Honors attention will be seriously drawn to this
earnest pleading have made, and that your Honor
will if there has been any others with suffering
like mine. God bless your Honor. God pless
every soul in this Courtroom and out of this Court
room, and God bless my dear family. May God
call his blessing on the whole universe.
Judge Armstrong have heard your remarks
with great deal of interest, and believe that you
are sincere in your statements and your feelings,
and you have my full sympathy. l believe what
you have stated that You have never been guilty OF
lying or perjury, or of any Of those things which
mark dshonor; but the Judgment has been
rendered and am without any power or authority
TO set it aside. The only thing left for me to do is
to specify the time when the Judgment shall be
carried into execution. The character OF the judg-
meut has been made known to you already It
is that you be confined in the County Jail until
the daV which shall fix. and thai
then you be taken by the Sheriff of this county and
hanged by the nsck until dead The time specified
for the execution of the Judgment is now fixed by
the Court for August 80, 1888, between the hours
of o'clock in the morning and O'Clock in the
evening In my opinion there is no hope of avoid
ing this sentence, and you should not now labor I'M
der any delusive hope. l advise you to make what
preparations you have to make TO meet that awful
doom we all must meet whether upon the gallows
or elsewhere
Hurtado-Yor Honor, / humbly bow to your
judgment
TIE prisoner was then conducted to bis cell
in tae prison.
SENTENCE OF RATEN.
4 few moments later Simon Ra1en, the
slayer of James Lansing, was brought into
tha Courtroom, and took seat at the bar
by the side Of his counsel, Elwood Bfuner.
He is Siberian. and has much the appear
auce of Monaghan. He was ordered to
stand up, and the Court, as in tbs case of
HurtadG. overruled the objections made by
counsel 10 the passing of the death sentence.
Raesn WAS thea asked il he had anything to
say why the ssnteE ca of death should not be
pronounced upon him. The condemned man,
who speaks such broken English that ne can
scarcely be understood, addressed the Court
for abo2t fifte5n minutes. He said that
few days before the homicide he wss most
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