San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12

] SPEAKING of the murder of Evans
by Davis, the Fort Worth Gazette has
unequivocally laid the blame for that
untimely taking off OF one of Fort
Worth's most estimable citizens at
the door of the courts, holding them
responsible for the lax ideas of justice
which prevail in the public mind. 1t
charges that because murder after
murder has been perpetrated and the
murderer either acquitted or given a
very light sentence, that the idea of
adequate punishment does not attach
to crime as it should and that this
opinion and belief IS at the bottom of
Davis crime. A few days since the
Gazette commented very forcibly on
Davis remark that he supposed he
might get eighteen months in Jail, I"
and later that journal remarks con-
corning Davis legal counsel as fol-
lows:
"It is reported that on Sunday Mr..
Davis requested visitor to send him
lawyer. Alas! Had he but con-
suited a lawyer on Saturday as
to what he may have considered
any wrong done him by MIR.
Evans, a bloody tragedy might have
been averted, a dutiful son saved to
his mother, devoted husband spar
ed to his wife and children and good
citizen left to serve the world. But
the redress was taken into individual
hands, and now a lawyer is wanted
to stand as mediator between the law
and its violator.n
This is the attitude. The court is
the arena in which the legal gladia-
tors fight for the prize of verdict
and the question of the righteousness
of the result is hardly taken into the
account. Were the decision with the
judge it might be otherwise, but the
changes are rung on all the chords of
human feeling, every effort is made
to:secure stnck jury, one dissenting
voice defeats the ends of justice, and
the way for more crime is pioneered.
Claimed as Government Property.
From the Two Republics.
The president of the republic has
instructed the secretary of public
works to issue circular of which the
following is an extract:
"There exists in some points of the
| rin Of nd
meteoric rocks, known in science by
the name of meteorites, and which
from their origin, composition and
nature, cannot belong to the owner of
the soil wherein they are found, on
account of not being product of his
own, neither is their existence due to
acce ssion, because their derivation is
eXtra-terre stial or cosmical. Taking
to consideration that the substance
in question, has been indeed consid-
cred as mineral, 1t is not denOunce-
able iuasmuch as it is not included
with such character in Article l of
the Mining Code, neither is it of
those that Article 10 of the same
code specifies as belonging to the
owner of the soil in which they are
| found; taking in account, however,
that though these meteorites have no
industrial application, they are in
deed of great scientific interest on &C
count of the knowledge which the
study of their composition that will
eventually reveal their origin affords.
and that every government is obliged
to foster the progress and develop
ment in all the sciences; the presi-
dent of the republic IN view of the
above, has seen fit to order and pro-
hibit the destruction, expectation,
and transfer of the referred meteoric
masses, under any form whatever;
and they must be preserved in their
respective places until the supreme
government orders their removal to
the scientific establishments adapted
| for their study.
The first magistrate likewise Or
ders all the political authorities of the
republic to give notice to the depart
ment of public works, of the meteor
itesthey may know to exist within the
limits of their jurisdiction, in order
that measures be taken for their pre-
| servatiOn, until their removal to this
capital is ordered"
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