The morning call., 1891-12-06

a cunning. clubbing attorney or a fixed Jury
might not discover n flaw. But taking the whole
OF this case together. / affirm that ii constitutes
mass oil concentration oil quit than which
nothing more complete or satisfactory could be
offered to The human mind.
he jury with their oaths still fresh upon
their lips and Whites seIEcOnyIctfnp confess
SiOns before them, failed to agree II certainly
Is cOnsollng TO know that there were four honest
men upon that jury who respected their ohIiga-
tons to God aud their fellow men ana stood firm
for conviction. as TO the others | leave them,
as their own consciences must already tell them
mat they have Sinned against knowledge and
that whatever defense they make coutradlcts
their own conviction.
What security, 1 ask. MIR. Editor, have we
when jury acts IN this manner and Grim goes
UNFINISHED even for time ? A few words more
and | Will have finished. The course pursued by
To nave been eminently unjust and unfair. Their
accounts OF the evidence garbled
and incorrect, and their not publishing
Whites confessions suggests itself to me
as being very unjust, il not contemptible
One matter which these sO-calIed newspapers
misieDi esented was The testimony given In
gard To the apparent results Of the business In
The CALL office during the eight months that
Wnlte was cashier, as shown by the monthly
statements which lie presented 10 the pro-
piietors- These showed au apparent loss al
most every month, while the fact was, as shown
by Whites b0OA :, tnaI In that time Ihe IOfits
exceeded $4,000, which lie did not turn over
They announced IN their reports that " HE
CALL was losing money" but studiously
neglected TO state that Il had m de profits during
the profits have been from $4,000 TO $4,000 per
month.
They seem TO have eDdeavOred 10 make huge
joke out of the fact that White embezzled SG5,-
600 from The CALL. They receive him like a
virgin at the Magdalen, and by the course they
have chosen TO pursue say 10 all persons In posi-
lions OF trust, Go thou and do likewise" This
certainly is sad state OF affairs and should meet
with the GisdppToval OF all right minded citizens
IL is Ilme halt was Gale 10 this class of Jour
nalism and The rising generation taught that
theft ana embeZZement aud tile betrayal oftrUst
will meet with degi adatinn and the highest pun
ishment. can assert without fear Of contradic
ton that San Francisco Is The only ely In Amer.
lea to-day where rival newspapers, no matter
what their differences OF Opinion quarr-ls
through their columns might b.. would not have
come out manully aud express their sorrow at
the loss by contemporary OF such large sum OF
mon y by embeZziemenI and done all In their
power to punish the criminal. Let US be fair and
honest toward each other and endeayOT to up
hold right, punish crime and let the world know
that embczzement is not one OF The legitimate
occupations OF San Francisco, but that the law
must be executed even though eight Jurors be-
found, who having sworn to be guided solely by
the evidence and the law aud not actuated by
outside Influences, said 10 The self-cOnfrssed en-
bezzler, You have done right" l am yours.
LOVER JUSTICE
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