Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-11-17
THE GRAND JURORS SPEAK
Some OF the Inside Facts in the
Summerfieid Case.

A
Of heart, want Of exercise for the
| benefit of his health and his sym
pathetic sympathy, influenced our
fish ent District Attorney to hunt
| up the parties who gave their tes-
timony ia State OF Nevada VS.. A
IL. Davis" and other parties who
did not, run them into his office
one by one, examine one by one,
(not under OATH reduce their con
rersdtion to writing, and then take
said conversation lin w iting) be-
fore the Court as genuine testi-
mony and have the said case dis
| missed, by reaoing the said con-
versatiJns to his Honor, the
Judge, as genuine sworn testI-
m2ny. Probably the said District
Attorneys mind is comp )sed OF
brains that cannot be made to IN
, derstand, thai evidence not under
oath, is not considered first class,
but we in our ignorance. believe
such to be the fact. Suffice it, by
his great legal ability AM the
written conversations that he pre-
sentsd to the Court as genuine, he
accomplished his object,
The Grand Jury would have ig-
nored the indictment hal they no
other evidence than that which the
said District Attorney produced
for the enlightment Of the Court.
The evidence of the young girl, up
On which the Indictment was
found, the said great and good
District Attorney seems to have
known nothing about. He was
asked 10y a member of the Grand
Jury, his reasons for Diminishing
the case, and the great and good
man answered, that he had taken
the wi nesses, whom the Grand
Jury would have, and did ignore,
into his office and examined them,
and he did not think that a con
viction could be had upon such
violence. Then the said Grand
Juror aske him if he had exam
med thd girl and he said he had
not; that her name was not
| On the indictment. The said Grand
Juror then went to the Clerk
office and examined the said in
| dictment and found the girls
name was on the Indictment, prov
ing that the great and good man
had not seen the in dictment, but
had in mis- great wisdom guessed
at the whole business. That is in
all probability the proper thing for
all such great and good men to do.
Alter many days his Honor
called the said Grand Jury togeth-
er to investigate the matter and
upon questioning the said District
Attorney he said that his reason
for having the case dismissed was
that the indictment was detective,
and that the bond given for the
appearance Of the girl witness wac
worthless. all Of which he found
out long after the case had been
dismissed, not by his o,cn great
legal knowledge but probably
through the knowledge of another
attorney who was retained to de-
fend the said Davis, and had OBJ
tanned accepted or got possession
of the said indictment fraudulently
or it may be that the great man
exhibited the said indictment TO
the said attorney. The e.roneratjon
that the said District Attorney
boasts of does not seem to set we'll
On Els stomach.
Neither the bond or Indictment
were produced in the dismissal of
the case nor are they mentioned
on the record OF che court; nor
were they produced in evidence in
the dismissal Of said case. Had
tho cyrast man L-powp AT the TINA
that they were worthless as he al
leges, he certainly would have pro-
duced them before the Court.
Truly he is great man; not lie
Caesar stained 1gith blood, Bat only
great GS he as g-o-o-d.
BY more than a majority Of tha
So called cautious, defunct