The St. Johns herald., 1891-08-27
United States Court at Prescott.

ious, small-brained, United States officials can, and do, prostitute their public positions for personal pur- poses, and the suggestion is forced from us that the term of the U. $, Court just ended at Prescott, is without a parallel even in the an- nals of Arizona judicature.
 Our General" CD Wilson, and his boy, Calvert. are nominally the United States Attorneys; their of flee; in one direction, at least, was run by Sanford and Special Agent Hawk. The most conspicuous fea' ture of the quartette was the ab- sence of brains and the presence of guts.
 We think We owe it to the public to let it know how its servants have treated honorable American citizens
 1. This outfit went to Prescott, with blare of trumpets, and the assinine announcement, in open court and elsewhere, that they in- tended to clear the docket of its three years'accummulTted business, civil and criminal. It Is reliably reported that they and Marshal Paul have expended of the public's mon- ey about $21, ,000, and the record shows, that the only thing accom- plished, was the conviction of five or six characterless, moneyless tramps ofselling whisky to Indians.
 The record further shows, that, in every ease where there was active opposition, by regularly retained at torneYs, the Government failed in its prosecution.
 ?. They summoned four different grand iuries, of twenty-one men each. The first body refused to be brow beaten by the Wilson's into abandoning its manhood, and find indictments upon no testimony af- fecting, at worst, only the pecca- dillos of their fellowmen.
 The grand jurors were told by Wilson that the United States At torney had no further use for them, and that the Court wished Q report. Both statements were untrue. Un- der this impression the body filed into court, and on motion of the United States Attorney was dis charged. Fifteen out of twenty-one of its members filed a protest, em- bodying the above statement, An other grand jury was called did the bidding of Wilson more willingly and were finally discharged. In the trial of the Bevans case, which the Government, as usual, lost, it developed that Cooley lied incenti- nently. It was suspected that the indictment against Tuning, which this brainless crowd had drawn, twas bad and as Cooley was Q creature of Hawks, doubtless suborned by him to wreak his personal spite on Tuning, solely for the purpose of nhitewashing Cooley and reindict- ing Tuning, another and third grand jury was called. And not withstanding the testimony of at least three reputable witnesses, SUD- ported and corroborated by unques- toned records of the court, Cooley, at the suggestion of the United States Attorney, was whitewashed, This grand jury was discharged and recalled at 8 p. m., thus making the fourth grand jury called at this term.
 8. The Deputy Marshal, though fully aware that this county has two factions-personally and politically militant-and though we'll knowing that one side was to be investigated md tried, deliberately selects the first lieutenant of one faction, Swinburne, and puts him on the grand jury. In order to get him to Prescott, where he could work in the cause, makes Bob Morrison, the
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