Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-11-21
PACIFIC COAST A0vICES.
TsPEcIAL 70 H s~ESTINEL.I
Mcrfted Rebuke by Judge
Sheldon.


Sheldon.
Tucson, Nov. 20.-A Star special from
salonville says the first session Of the
court in Graham county is being held by
Judge Sheldon. Several criminals, for
murder, have been acquitted. The case of
the German, Chance, on two indictments
for murder, has just been tried. One Of
the charges against him is for numbering
Inez Frezcais, and the other for murder
ing his wife. Both murders were COM
mitted at the same time in the house Of
defendant, and in the presence of two lit
tie children OF the accused. The first
verdict was granddaughter. The indict-
ment for killing his wife was the next tried,
and resulted IN q similar verdict. This
was too much for Judge Sheldon's sense Of
Justice, aud lie delivered the jury the
following:
Gentlemen of the Jury: Your labors in
this case, with the rendering of your YER
dict, are closed, but the Court has o
further duty to perform which it cannot
avoid. 1t is q duty which the Court owes
to itself not only, but to the people of this
county. While the merits Of this case
were under consideration, the Court could
express no opinion upon the evidence, but
now it is at liberty to speak. aud while it
is an unpleasant task, it nevertheless
becomes the plain and sacred duty OF the
Court to express in clear and explicit
terms its profound establishment at the
rendition Of such a verdict. A verdict SO
utterly at variance with all the facts in the
case, and the laws which govern them.
Such verdicts, gentlemen, are q mockery
to law and q travesty upon justice, and
will render trials by jury q farce. By such
verdicts, gentlemen, you assume the re-
sponsibility for the terrible condition OF
affairs which exists to-day in Graham
county, making it, az it is, . foul blot upon
the name of Arizona, and o disgrace to he
civilization Of the age. You, by this YER
dict, have deprived every man Of the con-
stitutional right Of protection; you have
sanctioned disorder and have welcomed
anarchy, and were it not for the press OF
business before the Court, and the great
expense which would be incurred by the
impaneling Of q new jury. I would imme-
diately dismiss you from the further con-
sideration OF any matters before the Court.
Gentlemen of the jury, you are discharged,
and I only regret that l cannot discharge
you for the term.
There is great excitement here among
the roughs on account Of Sheldon's re-
buke. Some threaten violence. Graham
county is the seat Of the cowboys, and .
number Of murders during the last six
months.
Wants the Grand Jury Instructed.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 20.-W William M.
Nelson this morning presented an afi-
davis in Judge Toohy's Court requesting
the Court to instruct the Grand Jury.
The affidavit alleges as follows as q reason
why you should further instruct said
Grand Jury:
l am informed and believe that William
Sharon, who is the accuser in regard to
the charges to which / refer, as while the
investigation is pending he has held sun
dry interviews with several members Of
said Grand Jury. calculated to effect the
result, mt on information of Charles d.
Cushman, / name Grand Jurymsn John
G. Merrill as one Of the jurors who is
acting improperly as aforesaid, and on
information Of said Cusbman, / allege
that said Merrill openly admitted, while
the accusations in question were pending,
but before the evidence had been taken,
that he 1.-THE said Merrill) had been shown
by the said Sharon evidence that had con-
WINGED him in regard to the question
pending before the said Grand Jury.
Furthermore. the question now being
investigated before the Grand Jury, in
which the said Mrs. 8. A. Sharon and
myself are accused, is at this present
moment in an issue made up in one OF the
n anarfpnap ~ the oprrrk nf vrhiNh va,x .
one Of the Judges, and will be tried at the
very earliest date st which we can have it
called up. Being thus under the control
and jurisdiction Of your honorable court,
/ respectfully submit that the same court
ought not to practically supersede one OF
it's departments that has acquired prior
jurisdiction in the premises, and / respect
fully pray you will 80 instruct the present
Grand Jury. Respectfully submitted.
Signed: w. M. NELSON.
Yellow Fever Raging Along the
Coast.
VALLEJO, CAL, Nov. 20.-The following
is an extract from q private letter written
on board the United States sloop Of war
Ranger, off Acapulco, Nov. 9, 1888:
We arrived here on Monday, Nov. S,
and the moment we dropped anchor the
Consul came on board and told the cap
tain the port was infected with yellow
fever; that there were 100 cases that week
and eight deaths during the Saturday
before we arrived. We got up anchor at
once and moved outside the harbor, and
had coal sen ont to our ship in lighters.
We then whitewashed the outside of the
ship. We have since learned that the
fever is at La Union and Panama. By the
advice OF the doctor. the captain tele-
grsphed the Navy Department that the
disease is raging along the coast, and the
expectation is that we will resent north.
What Senator Fair II Doing.
SAN Francisco. Nov. 20. "A Bulletin
New York special says that Senator Fair
informed an interviewer yesterday at the
Gilsey House as follows: II Am here to
rest and for regeneration before proceed
ing to Washington. / WAS taken very i'll