The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-05-24
Col. E. NJ. Sanford on the Var Path.

attachment, unfolds himself to the
extent of a column and a quarter
in the Journal-Miner of May 18th
in an explanation. The trouble
seems to be that he explains moth
ing. Whenever he pretends to state
the facts, he palpablv misstates
them, and when he finally labor
iously reaches the issue, he lodges
it, and rolls as sweet mOrsel I'M
! der his tongue some goose and gan
der sauce. This sauce suggestion
is so profound, or his English so
p;quante, that we cannot divine
this explainer's intention. How.
ever, we will state some of the facts,
that the Colonels friends and the
public generally may intelligently
! judge of his conduct.
To our knowledge The Colonel
has attended two successive courts
in Apache county and has magnifi-
Gently succeeded not only III losing
every case with which he has had
any connection, but has had his
temper corrugated on both occa-
sions. The record shows that every
man whom this doughty knight Of
the piano box has defended against
criminal charge has either plead
ed guilty or been convicted. Every
person or corporation, that obtain
ed the valuable services of the Col
onel has been condemned by proper
judicial decision to pay the penal
ty of their folly-has lost lis, or
it's, case, The Colonel is justly in
dignant, for these successive de-
feats have come so fast and IL such
quick succession that they had each
trod upon the heel Of the other,
and they have become abominably
monotonous. Now we do not blame
the Colonel for, like him, if we
could not win a single case at this
law business, we would get hot,
burn up our little piano box, 60
back to our cease" where we could
and did succeed. Now for the
facts;
First, We know personally, for
we heard him, that the Colonel did
not say to the jury what he states
in his article he sal /. We believe
he purposely omits repeating what
he did say. The 9urport, if not the
exact language Of his last remark
was, "that the Plaintiffs attorney,
if he pursued the same tactics as
heretofore, would ask for a less
judgment than $1,000 to prevent an
appeal to the Supreme Court of the
United States where they could got
the law" Evidently intending that
the presiding Judge and his asso-
ciates on the Territorial Supreme
Bench either did not know tie law,
or knowing it, were unwilling that
he and his client should have it.
Second, After this remark, the
Colonel did not "thank the jury,
pick up his watch, handkerchief"
piano box and adjust his paper col
lar and retire leisureiy to the Dis
trict Attorneys office. But imme-
diateIy after lie made the insulting
remark, he abruptly retired from
the court room, before any notice
could be taken of his action.
Third. The presiding Judge, con-
ceiving himself and his associate
justices to have been grossly in
suited, without cause, Il short while
after, in the privacy of the District
Attorneys office, in the presence OF
probably one other attorney, in
formed the Colonel that he had
been guilty OF cowardly conduct in
making that unprofessional re-
mark.
Fourth. The Colonel swallowed
this merited and dignifed rebuke,
| carried it beneath his wilIowy
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