Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-09
JESUS
Or, An Psychological Phenomenon
Explained b. Precedent.

Or, An Psychological Phenomenon
Explained by Precedent.
In these ''hard times" for the Base
Range reporter it 10 singular hat the guild
nunc Of this paper has for some time with
held from the public an item that he has
had actual need Of in filling up, so or 100
times. A month ago or more. a Mexican
woman Of the town in Eureka committed
suicide. A female witness before the Jury
Of inquest signed her name Jesus Torres"
The reporter of the SENTINEL, in looking
over the testimony, was attracted by this
signature. That a woman should call her.
self "Jesus'' seemed to him not only in
conflict with all history profane and
sacred, but utterly contrary to every prin-
ciple OF grammatical accidents. On first
thought, however, no such suggestions as
these occurred TO his mind. He looked
upon the feminine assumption OF the mas
culine front name, Jesus" as a mere
freak OF the woman In question, resulting
from her ignorance Of the structure of lam
guage generally and her total darkness as
to the proprieties Of her native tongue.
He was impressed with the idea that the
woman had simply INDUCED in a fancy in
writing her name, and that there was q
mistake in the signature, just as much 80
as though an English-spesking woman
should boldly sign herself 'John Jones;''
and turning to the Coroner, Justice Har-
mon, he asked:
"How is this, Judge; I find that q woman
puts her name down here as Jesus p
Guess there must be something wrong
about IT,"
"No, / guess not" was the Judges
answer; CHATS the way she signed it,"
"Do you think that is the real nam of
the woman ?"
"Of course, I do. And l don't know
that I've got any right TO tell a woman that
she don't know what her own name is. Now,
if it was a matter of her age, it might be
different"
"But, Judge, you startle me. This is a
case Of chronological phenomenon"
well, that may be, too, although l
don't know that | ever had q case of that
kind come up before me yet"
"Your Honor seems disposed to joke.
What / want to know, is there any prece-
dent for such q barbarism p"
81 hope you won't charge me with get
tiuS VI q juno u Iclcl yOu w Mabb DOhatN-
lien on 'barbarism;" but when you talk
about 'precedents"'y begin to get down
to m. jurisdiction. There's a whole lot Of
spermaceti ducks thst'Il strike out and tell
you everything that they don't know any
thing about"
Excuse me, / am really interested"
"Well, I'll tell you. The Greasers think
more of Jesus" las q word, l mean than
the snide lawyer does Of the words in the
vocabulary of hog Latin. Jesus among
the Greasers, is a dead stand-of' for such
paralyzers as soc ct tuum and sub poena
duces tecum, among the shysters of our
honorable profession
Judge, | am sorry, but I'll have to in
terrupt you again. I've got to CO."
"Well, now, you just hold on a little"
"Thank you, I catch your drift and I'll
float out by the aid Of my own wits"
young man, don't trust to them, you
might make another case for me to sit on"
GOOD morn"
CD it. can't you keep your seat q min
ute. You're most too sensitive. I'll get
back to the precedent you wanted me to
cite. ! have known q whole lot Of Mexican
females to travel under the name OF
Jesus"
That's it. chi"
eyes, that's what I'm tellin' you. They
are all dead stuck after the name"