Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-11-24
n o,HErL CASE.

what IIas Been Done and Imtlma.
lions Of what Will De.
We received from our special CORES
pondent ct Hamilton, last night, the fol-
lowing telegram:
"The case against R. @. O'Neil. Jr., was
to-day transferred to Eiko county. The
Grand Jury has not yet made any report
on the other cases."
The other cases referred to are those Of
the parties charged with the murder Of r.
@. O'Neil, Sr. We have strong intima-
tions from Hamilton that there will be no
indictments in these cases. II the intima-
tions were not strong We would not men,
ton them, for let them be never 30 strong,
they are still hardly credible. We have
no disposition to try the parties charged
in these columns, but we feel bound to
say in the expression Of the opinion Of all
unbiased persons that . terrible crime was
committed at Osceola, Of which somebody
was guilty. The defendants now before
the Grand Jury charged with the crime
may not all have participated in the out
rage, but that some Of them did there il
not . shadow Of . doubt in the mind Of
any reasonable person who il familiar with
the recorded evidence in the case. We
have had occasion to speak in compli-
mentary terms Of the gentlemen
Of the Grand Jury. They seem to be .
body OF fair, honorable and intelligent
favor Of their doing the right thing in the
premises. But unless q case 10 made be-
fore them almost totally different from
that brought out In the preliminary exam
~ination. 1t is difficult to see how they can
discharge sill the defendants and save
themselves from mental suicide. Richard
G. O'Neil, Jr.. was bound over for trial
immediately. His act, however, was only
the first Of the terrible tragedy that
reached its catastrophe in Oscsola. It is
not to be believed that those who brutally
murdered old man O'Neil there will be
allowed to escape through any loop-hole.
There should be . square deal all
around and no guilty man on
either side should be allowed to escape.
II the parties charged with the Osceola
assassination are innocent, they should
certainly be released and exonerated ct
once; but whoever the assassins were they
should be ferreted out and brought to the
bar Of justice immediately. The vindica-
ton Of those now charged depends upon
this. Until somebody 10 punished for the
heinous offense they will always be looked
upon a. the perpetrators OF IL. Let them
be purged Of crime stains il they are limo
cent, but let not the guilty escape the legal
penalty Of their murderous act. We shall
not believe that the eminently respectable
Grand Jury Of White Pine o in session
AZ Hamilton can hold all the defendants
innocent until their formal judgment has
been rendered to that effect, for while
it is plausible that some of them charged
with the infamy are cleanhanded. there is
no escape from the belief that others have
the blood Of old man O'Neil on their
hands. Let r. G. O'Neil, Jr., be tried, Is
ordered, and out Of reverence for justice
let somebody charged with the iendish
killing OF his father be tried also. Other
wise the community Of White Pine county
will seem to the world to wink at crime
and be in sympathy with felons. There
should not be room for the shadow Of such
n snspicion.