Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-09
THE CASE AGAINST LOADER.
he Has Not Been Properly and
Justly Treated.

Justly Treated.
EOi50T Dssenes Ne.Ss.
| 1t appears that no one but the per
petrators themselves can tell who
were the muninrers OF James Z.
Game. Whoever they We're, II discov-
cred beyond doubt, they. should be
made to pay the extreme penalty Of
the law. But to punish an innocent
man for that crime would be a stin
greater crims, il p0ssible, than the
original was.
In the late examination there was
manifest not only n great desire to
Izlnish somebody o. other for the
crime In order TO satisfy the public
indignation and a demand for a
victim Of vengeance, but also,
in my opinion, a desperate
desire TO obtain that five hundred
| dollars consequen. on conviction.
II is evident that there existed an
intense but unworthy prejudice
against the accused man, Loader.
not only I'm the examination, as |
believe, but in some Of the news
paper reports Of the same. Such
epithets as ''lough, Z" and foot
/ pad Leader" were not withheld.
The application Of such epithets to
him, or % any man improved, was
sclrrilOus. c1,cii savage, brutal,and
I think. libelous, aud lheT ought b
be re.racted. 1t was an altogether
unxarranted pre.judgneut vi the
case.
l am one Of several who have
known Mr.. Leader for forty years,
and | never knew him 20 be a
tough" in the common accepta-
ton Of the term, nor DO / believe
that anybodT s~er characterized
him rs n s'foOtpad" before. - far
rs 1 have seen or heani or known,
there is no more reason to charae-
terize Robert Loader as q -'footpad''
than there Is 10 characterize by that
term the reporters or editors Of the
papers which have abused him In
a manner which, / am sorry TO say,
: canno: but regard rs base anu
cowsrilS.
His great fault hiss been bis Civ
ing way 10 strong dTinA. When in
his drinking bouts, he has been apt
10 get into quarrcls with his COM
panious and others. Anything
f'tougher'' than this | 10 not know
Of him. I certainly never heard Of
dis waylayiug anybody before, and
7 10 Eot believe he die i'm the pres
eut cise, because IL ia contrary 70
all ! Know or hEea heard authenti- |
cslly Of MIN. When sober he has
been an industrious, handwriting
man, and those he has wo. ed for |
have liked him n such, rs testified |
in the examination. lie has been |
accustomed 10 rough work in the |
canyons, on railroads, in the fields, |
stc. Home time ago his shoulder
Wss badly hut liy su accident. and /
since .hen he has not beef rble b.
do such hand work a previously, !
which caused him to leave one job /
in the city, AMI was probably par
tinl cause OF his returning when he
did 10 bis family at Pleasant Grove,
which has been his home Cor near
u years.
60 fer ne I have seen or heard,
there has not been n scintiila OF
evidence sdduced 20 Prove that he
WIS Connected In any way with the
attack on Mfr. Caine. But there has
begn mluifesisi an Indecent eager
ness to duplicate him.
It seems that be was found drunk
on the opposite side Of the block an
hour or 50 after the attack was made.
Fifty innocent men, drunk or ssher.
might have passed that way in that
time. u is no. ssipposabie that tins,
perpetraior or per Sirators of that
iced would have remained In or
about that block an hour after the
ieei was done. Neither do men
SGT drunk as a preparation for such
3 deed. which was undoubtedly pre-
anu prepared for. They
are far more likely to be shrewd
enough 10 keep sober and have their
wits about them and kept well in
hand. Nor II he had c0mmitted
he crime, Il IL likely that he would
have stayed al home afterSarie In
al probability, the RAJ perpetrators.
4 near, were laughing in their
sleeves during the progress Of the
examination and especially at the
-esult SO far as the evidence ad-
iuced is concerned, there was no ,
Justification for holding the ac-
used. Furthermore, and especi-
lily in view o. the total lack Of evI-
fence, the bonds required are
.xcessive, because he IL POOR man. /,
Ind his friends are notoverhurienei .
With this worlds goods. The !
uteres. on 5000, at ten per cent, is
more than many n laboring man
an realize in cash in a year. Be- q
idas, while in prison, the family Of ,
he accused, no matter about his ,
must suffer.
Prejudice should not rule. A
nan should not be shamefuuy !
bGsed because he Is charged with
rime. The courts, aboveall should
ndeav0r 10 DO justice, and not seek
eo1dema innocent men, no mat q
er the popular clsmoE, nor any /
o1y's clanloE. Courts have moth.
sS 70 do gi.h blind vengclaee.
My 70 restrain or pun'sh 1t. Where y
whence shows lass % texture, as {
D the preseut case, the accused 4
nutled % tae full benefit. III he IA =
ot awarded this, then | thiut
here = something rotten in the \
1urts and in the State.
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