, 1889-04-06
WILL NOT INTERFERE.
Governor Moonlight Refuses to Act
In the Trumbl5 Case.
He Gives Excellent Reasons for
His Course.
The Trouble Caused by Overlook
ing a Comma.
WILL NOT INTERFERE.

James 8. Rowen. The death sentence
passed unon Trnmble has been snsnended
pendinp the d;snosition of an apnlication
for n new trial now before the snprem.
court of the territory Here ,s the COM
mupication.
THE GOVERNORS LETTER,
The petition and letters submitted by
you on the Sd inst, praying for the par
don of Charles V. Tumble have been
carefully examined, as also the official
statement of the county and prosecuting
attorney submitted in conformity to law.
Charles V. Tumble shot and killed an
unarmed, harmless and inotfensive man
at Lusk, Laramie county, October 6,lSS6.
1t appears the deceased, Charles Miley,
came to Lusk a few days before the MUIR
der, bringing a saddle with him and placed
it in safe keeping. He had just left a po-
sition as workman on the ranch OF Rich
ard Brothers. On his arrival in Lusk he
proceeded to get drunk and in that con-
dition told some prostitute that he was a
horse thief. which was conveyed to Trum-
Bile, who had been deputy sheriff, ''but at
the time was relieved of his commission
upon the charge of being a horse thief"
Tumble forthwith arrested Mlley, hand
cuffed him and kept him in charge for a
period of two or three days preceding the
killing. and yet he was not an officer of
the law as above appears. The following
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county and prosecuting attorney, submit
ted in the case, and concerning which
there is no controversy:
There was much evidence tending to
show that Trumble ierked him (Miley)
about by means of the handouts, so that
his wrists we're bruised, swollen and
bleeding. On the evening preceding the
killing Tumble, accompanied by a num-
Der of citizens, took the man out a dis
lance of two or three miles from the town
of Lusk, ostensibly for the purpose of
hunting up a gang of horse thieves to
which Miley was supposed by Tumble to
belong. Tumble then ierked him out of
the wagon. took a whip and went to
beating him until he was restrained by
some members of the party. He then
was placed in a wagon and returned to
Lusk, and it was either that evening or
the following, that John Owens, upon
hearing Trumble's prisoner pleading and
begging, went out back of his house and
made Trumble desist from the manner in
which he was then using him. AT this
time the mans pants were unbuttoned
and his clothes were in a condition that
showed he was about to be whipped upon
his bare flesh. Owens demanded that the
prisoner be protected from such treatment,
and told Trumble that he had no desire
to interfere with the prisoner in the GUS
tody of an officer, but hat he would not
tolerate such inhuman treatment. Trum-
BILE thereupon then grabbed the prisoner
by the wrists, ierked him down and said,
Well, come along, I'll kill you anyway.
Threats of a similar nature were
heard by a number of witnesses
at various times while Trumble
had him in custody. Tumble had been
In the west almost since boyhood and un-
til a period of about six or eight months
preceding the killing had conducted him
self as a respectable citizen. His treat
meDt of this prisoner became so notorious
in the town that several of the more
quiet and older citizens demonstrated with
him for it. The only ground for the
man hainu arroutad or oil II tho rapnrf