Arizona republican., 1892-12-04
YOUNG RELEASED
absolutely No Evidence
Against Him.
cmith's Awful Story Is
Melted Into Air,
urder the Purifying Heat of an
Oath, Yesterday.
geAdmlts That He Had Been Work.
ing for the Prisoner, and Had
Been Discharged.

william Young, charged with u Grim,
.,s;pst ma ure, and whose case has at.
,,sc,ed more interest than any other
,rce the Rhodes and Tewsbury exami
nations, was given hearing yesterday
afternoon before Justice Wharton, snC
vas discharged. The recorders court
,oom was crowded by a morbidly curl.
ana crowd, long before the hour set for
the examination.
The defendant was brought in at
o'clock, and though he was pale and
,rpesred anxious. he was by no means
nervous, and didn't look like man
cnilty OF the crime charged.
The two witnesses against him,
Ionis Smith and another boy, who had
worked for the defendant, seemed ill at
Ease and appeared to heartily regret
hat the affair had come up.
Young was represented by Attorney
l. Ed Marks. The case was called, and
Young Smith was put on the stand,
when the counsel for the defense de-
handed that the evidence be taken in
and the examination proceeded. Mr..
Marks requested that the room be
cleared OF spectators, and the defendant
Dned in the request, remarking that
the subject to be considered was not a
proper matter for publicity. There
could be no doubt OF this, if the wit
nssses were going to swear to what
Young Smith had previously told. No
BODY had come TO be edited. The court
room was accordingly cleared. Again
the examination was taken up and what
happened was suggestive only OF the
smoke which arises from a broken puff
ball,
Young Smiths story which had de-
tailed unnatural enormities on the part
Of the prisoner when distilled into evil
dence entirely changed its form. The
only point of resem blance lay in his
statement that he had worked for the
prisoner, and he also admitted that he
bad been discharged for insolence. The
other boy by whose testimony it was
expected that Young's crime would be
Established, swore that he had been
employed to deliver some books, and
that as soon IS the work was finished
he had been discharged.
This was all No Ca had ever fallen
harder and lay hatter than this one.
There was only one thing to be done
and the prisoner was released from Gus
tOdy after having lain three days in Jail
under suspicion of tine most terrible
Ofense that can be charged against any
man.
1t iss significant circumstance that
the district attorney did not appear at
The examination and it is said that he
had declared that the case was utterly
without foundation.
II less serious matter had been in
volved the outcome might be considered
ridiculous. Nobody knows just where
TO place the blame. That young smith
led is evident, and that he is old enough
that his statement should have had
weight with the authorities ia also evil
dent, 1t was difficult for them to re-
sIize a state Of depravity which would
induce boy OF Is to mendaclously make
'nch an accusation as that which led to
YOung's arrest.
The only result in sight is that an In-
locent man has been so terribly injured
hat his vindicatIon at yesterdays ex-
animation is after all only vindication
4 law.