Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-17
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
a CA ID.
Sheriff Beamer'S Broadside !
Stand Up, Mr.. MoCIatchy, and Take Your
| Medicine.

DEAR SIR: I co NOT KNOW WHO YOU
- are, and could not recognize you were to
meet you; but am told that you are the editor
of the Sacramento Daily Bee, and that your eli-
phonious cognomen is as above written
Within the past year you have taken occasion
to refer to me in connection with the gambling
in Yolo," insinuating that I was in with the
gamblers
In the Bee of yesterday you had another SINH
lar vomit, which is not only unjust, but as foul
and false as the brain in which it originated.
desire this to apply also to another and separate
article in the same paper signed ''Yoloite, -
which l answer more fully through the Yoyc
Mail of to day.
Among other thing, you say that the Chinese
tan games and lotteries there have never ceased
operations or been disturbed This is simply
nothing more nor less than lie, and if you don't
know il to be so your ignorance Is unpardonable
For the benefit of those who do not know
will say that have at this lime in my posses
sion two lottery outfits captured in Washington.
The Cinnamon fought like tigers to avoid capt
ure. -Four men took part in the raid, consisting
OF myself, my Under Sheriff, J. II. Magoffey and
Frank Grant. The guilty parties ere taken be-
fore Justice Hilton about II o clock at night ON
the day of the arrest, and the trial set Fifty
dollars a head was deposited for their appear
ance. At the appointed time all parties were
present. C. T. Jones appeared for the defend
ants, and J. IL. Nagoffey acting District Attor-
ney. change OF venue was granted before
Justice Oneal, at Dayisville, and day set Again
all parties were present and trial proceeded. By
defect in the complaint the Justice ordered
the defendants discharged.
While the acting District Attorney was max
ing out new complaint upon which to obtain
the necessary warrant of arrest the Cinnamon
made desperate break for the Solano county
line. Seeing that they were about to escape /
gave chase and brought them to BAY at the
muzzle of my pistol in Briggs vineyard. When
returned to the Court was told in stentoran
tones by Attorney Jones to turn his clients
loose or be sued for damages" moment later
acting District Attorney Magoffey handed me the
warrant, and politely invited Mr.. Jones to sue
and be -. A day was set when all parties
showed up ready fortrial. A better case was never
made out before court of justice, and, strange
as it may appear the Jury hung. A secord trial
is yet to be. Now, Mr.. McClatchy. the above is
as true as the leaf of the Bible where your birth
stands recorded. VIII you admit the falsity of
your charges, or insist that you are too closely
related tc George Washington to tell lie? You
have continued you aspersions by saying: 1T
isl well-known fact that the Chinese are al
ways ready to pay for the privilege of being let
alone" Having never sold myself to a China
man nor anyone else am not prepared to dis
pute the assertion. The remark is sort of
conundrum, but if you mean to insinuate COM
plicity on my part with the alleged games, de-
nounce the imputation as false.
Being so well known in Washington a success
fdl raid by me was a difficult undertaking
Watches were out day and night for the ap-
proach of the little gray headed man with
side whiskers." Boasts were confidently and
boldly made that Dick would never get there
But like the bug that Billy Birch sings about
he % got there all the same" l am indebted to
j. G. Lee. of Woodland for material aid ZEN
dered on this occasion Two prisoners S297 80
in money and the faro equipments were bagged.
One man jumped from window and broke his
leg, but that don't count.
After all the preliminaries. plea of guilty.
was entered before the Superior Court. The
order of the Court was fine of 500, the balance
of the money. s97 80, and the property to be re-
money and faro outfit was by me restored to
prominent Sacramento man, who took it away.
Does the Bee man think it worth his time to in
quire whether or not the same outfit is being
used within the sacred precincts of Sacramento
at the present tine? l rather guess not
The 900 was promptly paid over to the county,
about s75 of my individual funds, and to my
certain knowledge District Attorney Sprague
has done the same, hunting down Sacramentans
who came into Yolo with their crimes against
the law; and all in Gods world | have ever re-
ceived is these cowardly slaps in the face by
this man McClatchy.
Everyone knows, even down to McClatchy,
that the officers in Sacramento have jurisdic-
ton over these alleged games under the 500
yard limit prescribed by the law. Most people
know. and the Bee asserts it, (but whether that
strengthens nay case or weakens it. have seri-
GUS doubts. that Sacrameptans run the games,
crossing the bridge for that purpose. They are,
notwithstanding this. amenable to the Courts OF
Sacramento under the law. Not alone for the
reason that the law empowers officers of the
lag to cross 500 yards into an adjoining county,
bnt in this particular instance for the further
and separate cause that they are residents of
that county. Who is then so ignorant but that
he knows must have proof to convict before a
we'll warranted arrest can be made?
If there Is citizen in Washington or else
where who can swear out warrant, stand
ready to execute it without delay. Not because
of this unwarTanted attack on the part of the
Bee, but because l shall regard it as my duty.
/ can. with mistaken confidence, assert that
in all my official acts have been prompted by
no impure motive or personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Any statement TO the contrary is false, and
shall not hesitate TO denounce it as such.
The brazen hardihood, galvanized egotism.
and ponderous iaybone of this man McClatchy,
have no equal, when he takes to himself the
credit of having goaded me into doing what
has been done,
A pitiful state OF affairs indeed. when the IN
fuence of the Sacramento Daily Bee is the only
incentive to prompt men to the proper discharge
OF their respective duties 4. II. Banner.
Sheriff of Yolo County, Cal.
Woodland, Feb. Il, 1886 fel6-lts