Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-07
STANDING FOR HIS RIGHTS.
The Case Of Editor Cutting Before the
S0.Called Mexican Courts Of
Justice Yesterday.
Alfred Packer the Colorado MAN Eater
Convicted and Sentenced to
Forty Years.
Latest Points In the English Question:
Parliament In Sessions.
Hartingt0n's Attitude.

DENVER, August 5.-An Ell PasO specia
says: The trial OF Editor Cutting was &c
Tor 10 O'Clock this morning. At that hou
the Mexican authorities, the Court, tn
Judge OF Letters, Senior Manuel Sabidia
his clerk, the official interpreter, with tn
plaintiff Emidgo Medina, Consul Brigham
the prisoner and q few American ant
and Mexican citizens and representative
OF the Ell Paso press assembled in the small
court room which is furnished with two
tables and q few chairs. At IL o'clock tn,
Prosecuting Attorney, J. NJ. Sierra anG
Jesus E. Yslas, attorney for the defend
ant, announced they were ready for trial
On opening the court Judge .Salidia aske5
the interpreter to read all the proceeding
ank documents in the case. Among them
were Medina's %afidavits charging Cutting
with a failure to carry out the recommend
ton made before the Mexican Court
in regard to the publication in
tho Elcentince, by Immediately causing
to be published in the Sunday Herald
OF Ell Paso a repetition of the offense. The
second affidavit charges that Cutting had
circulated over ten copies of that paper in
Paso del Norte, and alleges that his
malicious intention was made plain because
Spanish and English, while the Herald
usually published nothing but English.
Then came the original charge of libeling
the Mexican citizen Medina in the Sunday
Herald, published at Ell Paso, Texas.
When the reading was finished Cutting was
asked if all was satisfactory. He replied
that he could not countenance the pro-
ceedings as he considered the court with.
out jurisdiction in the case. The
other officials then signi6ed their ap-
prevail OF the contents of the minutes
Jore Maria Acca, Prosecuting Attorney
took the floor and delivered his argument.
He said that the case hinged upon the
written agreement between Medina and
~Cutting-cailed an act of recon citation
which was broken and made void by the
publication by Cutting in the Ell Paso
Herald, and that this breach OF contract
gave Medina a perfect right TO continue his
case against4the prisoner. and he quoted
article 656 and section S. article 657 OF
the Mexican code in support Of this
view. He concluded by calling atten-
ton to article &C Of the penal
code defining the sentence in sach a serious
case and asked the Court for a term OF two
yV0A0 OO AUlu " 0k0AAX0O
the prisoner. He then asked the Court to
censure Consul Brigham for his oficious in.
reference in the case and requested thatthe
Federal authorities be notified Of the Con.
sul's act so that the necessary diplomatic
correspondence be commenced to effect his
removal. Medina, the accusing party, was
then given the floor and testified that Cut
ting had detained his character on June 6.
For this he had Cutting cited by the Court
for a reconciliation. and the result OF this
was Cutting promised to publish four times
in English and Spanish q retraction, bat
had broken his word.
Senior Jesus Yslas. attorney for Cutting,
took the floor. He argued that the former
action ended the claim OF Medina; that
Cutting did not voluntarily break any
Mexican lows and that is why he went SO
far away to republish his card; that if the
offense was punishable there were many
to make it as light as pos
Mr.. Cutting wal then offered the
floor but simply stated that he could not
recognize the Court, that he was in the
hands of his Government. The Judge then
pronounced him guilty and the Court adj
The Judge has fifteendaysin which
to pronounce sentence.