Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-06

A star actress writing from a neighboring
city to friend in Sacramento, complains
OF the weather by saying: "This place is
much hotter than Sacramento. Nothing is
cold here but our audiences
The Superior Court is being entertained
with a motion to set aside the sentence of
eighty days Imprisonment in the county
jail, awarded by Judge Henry to the worth
less " lover, Louis Hansche If this class
OF Migrants are to be allowed to scheme
with Second and L-street courtesans, who
harbor and support them upon the wages of
their shame, and cover up their yagrancv
under pretense of their being bar-tenders
landlords, etc., so that the law cannot
reach them, then it's time that vigilance
committee take the matter in hand, and
make clean sweep of harlots and lovers
and DO II so vigorously that they will not
return to further disgrace the city. 1t is not
to be supposed that with such plotting to
eYade the law, and with testimony given
without regard to truth, but only to screen
themselves, that as satisfactory evidence
can be obtained upon which to convict in
such cases, as under other circumstances.
and 1t should not be required, No one can
doubt the correctness of Judge Henry's de-
cisioh in the case, and no respectable citi-
zen can be found who finds any fault with
half as severe as the defendants continued
offense before the public deserves. 1t is not
good class of cases for Courts to be senti-
mental over
The dismissal of the embezzlement
indictments against Thomas H. Reynolds
for populations while Deputy Secretary of
State under D. NJ. Burns, ends the efforts
in the Courts to determine who stole the
$4,000 of State money Burns was tried
first, and the evidence presented by him,
tending to prove his own spotless inno-
cence and that Reynolds was an unmiti-
gated thief, was exceedingly plausible, and
very generally accepted by the public The
strength of this impression was greatly in
| creased by almost entire silence on the
part of Reynolds while the trial was in
progress, and until after Burns was set scot
| free. In fact, Reynolds looks and de-
| meanor were regarded as those of a man
whose brazen thievings of public funds had
at last been unearthed, and he was expert
encing the shame and disgrace of exposure.
No sooner, however, had Burns been ac-
| quilted and the time approached for Rev
| nolds trial, than Reynolds began to be
very bold and loud in utterances of his
own innocence. He also promised to show
| that not only did Burns do all the stealing,
| but that he, Reynolds. resigned his office
| as Deputy because he found he could not
make Burns quit stealing and his own i'm
maculate soul was too pure to longer re-
main in contact with such an unregenerate
villain. Meantime, while Burns had
| slipped his neck from the meshes of the
law, the actual proof of his own inno-
cence depended upon the conviction Of
Reynolds in accordance with his testi-
mony, and his own evidence was princi-
pally to be relied upon to do this. At this
! important juncture Burns was suddenly
| taken with violent mining fever. and he
at once hied away to the wilds of Mexico,
and unquestionably has Intentionally re-
NAMED there to give Reynolds a free field
to secure a Scotch verdict of not proven, u
| and which the immaculate and never
doubling Thomas has successfully availed
| himself of Both have been charged be-
fore the public as thieves, or, politely speak
ing, embezzlers of public funds both have
| asserted their own innocence, and each that
| the other was the culprit; both have aided
| the escape of the other by silence while
the other was on trial both are scot free,
| and the State Prison has been cheated out
of one, if not two, steady boarders to which
it was richly entitled.