The record-union., 1893-06-20
SOME GRAVE OMISSIONS.
Points Which the Sensational Press
Overlooked.

Overlooked.
lFrom the Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel
IN the interest of Justice and public
right we teeled called upon to remon-
strate with the big dailes for omittinp
certain grave and important matters in
ihelr Illustrations Of the Evans and Son
tag war. We have not yet seen picture
ot the group Of trees under which the
Fresno otnclalS remained a short time
while Under-Sherif Hall was arresting
Evans i'll the Perkins house. MIR. Per-
Klns distinctly states that during that in
tefestlng interview with Evans 1.-The
fesno officers We're about $50 wards from
tne house under some trees" The omis-
SION TO photograph those trees may lead
TO important results when the litigation
over the reward takes place. We think
thls grave omission will be supplied, if it
IS not too late. The picture Of Perkins
ana ms CORY towel and bloody pump
handle ought also to be presented.
Ihen, again, why was not the bed on
winch Evans rests in the Jail included in
the gratifying picture of his cell? This.
100, Is serious matter. The public has a
rlgnt TO know just how that bed looks.
and nobody but despot at heart wonId
disregard that sacred right.
Inc public Will have a right to feel
disappointed and offended too. at the
omission OF the picture of W. +. Halls
mother. If the old lady was not too
feeble she should have been taken TO the
photographers gallery and included in
the same picture which exhibits to an
admiring public the features Of her brave
son who so boldly arrested the desperate o
when he was lying half dead in the
Perkins house.
II was very proper and in fact almost
indispensable to the cause of Justice that
the public should be favored with a
picture OF the Nisalia jail, and the big
dallles are entitled to public pratitude
ana commendation for responding to this
need. But in the picture of the VisaIia
Dastlle we perceive that there is a little
uncertainty as TO whether the oDenino in
the right hand corner of the basement is
WINDOW or Ventllator. This is mn i'm
portant defect in the picture, and there
Is no knowing what serious compIica-
tlons may grow out of it before this mat
Ter IS nhaIly concluded. The omission
should be supplied by some one of the
enterpriSing dailies of the metropolis.
we have not yet seen picture of the
stump OF Evans amputated arm but we
confidently hope that this will appear in
lew days. 1t can not be that so i'm
portant feature Of the Fresno Tulare-
oontag- -EVans campaign will be perma-
henuy omitted by the enterprising
plclorlographers of the great conflict
And what we have said about the stnmn
OF Evans arm applies with even greater
lorce TO the stump of Deputy Marshal
Jackson's leg. From the length of time
that has elapsed since that leg was
severed, we reluctantly conclude that
there IS no intention on the part of the
big dallles to exhibit a photograph of it
lor the deIectatlon OF the dear people.
MS, II our surmise proves correct, will
not only be an undeserved disappoint-
ment TO the intelligent reading Dnblic.
but an unpardonable slight to the wife
ana children of Deputy United States
Marshal jackson. In the interest of
enterprls1ng journalism we hope the
omission will be supplied if the stump
mas not healed too much to make a strik-
ing picture. By all means give us photo
graphs OF the two stumps side by side if
IL IS posslbl to do SO.
Inc only other omission of a grave
nature which we will mention at this
time IS the failure to photograph the cor
her OF the fence from which Deputy Mar
SnaI burns delivered his fusillade against
EVahs ana Sontag when they were in the
straw pile near the fatal cabin. This cor
neI ought to have been included in the
thrilling picture of the cabin. 1t could
easily have been done, and as without a
picture OF that corner of the fence an
entirely accurate idea of the field of bat
tie can not be obtained, the intellignnt
public has right to complain of fhe
OMISSION. We hope it will not occur
again.