The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-25

| with a firm tread, entered the room, &C
| cOmpanied by Attorney Quesada.
! As he advanced through the crowd of
/ spectators he apparently recognized some
! familiar faces and raised his hand in mill
! tary salute, as is his custom in acknowl-
/ edging a greeting. Bailitf Maloney, Clerk
/ Manley and even Judge Morrow came in
/ for salutation.
/ Following their ci-deyant leader came
Generals FlorenziO Bustamente. Jacinto
ColOchO, Leon Balanos and Juan Cien-
fuegos, the faithful followers of Ezeta in
his disastrous campaign and now the COM
panions of his exile. The party found
seats behind their lawyers.
Attorneys Pierson ana Mitchell, counsel
for the Government of San Salvador, Dis
trict Attorney Garter and his assistant,
Mr.. knight, occupied places at the table
set apart for the lawyers.
All through the proceedings. although
none of the party can understand much
| English, and none at all when it comes to
! forensic rhetoric. the FIVE prisoners watched
! anXiously every movement of the lawyers
/ as II they understood all that was being
! said. Occasionally EZeta would lean over
! and converse with his attorney. Quesada
District Attorney Garter opened the ball.
/ as it were. by Informing Judge Morrow OF
/ the fact that the parties were there on
/ proceedings for their extradition TO the re-
/ public of San Salvador, from which place
! they had fed. He stated that a treaty in
relation 10 extradition existed between
/ this country and San Salvador and that
/ article VI of that treaty was applicable to
the case then under consideration.
j L.
rotary of State Gresham for the issuance
! of the warrants of arrest and also one Of
/ the five complaints fled by the Consul Of
! Salvador in this city charging Ezeta and
! his companions with the crime of murder.
! The other four complaints were not read
as they we're in the same form but charged
/ different crimes.
II appear In this case" said Mr.. Garter.
''by request of Attorney-General Olney.
! The Government has no interest in
! these proceedings other than to see that
/ they are carried out in a regular ana
/ proper FORM"
Having thus unbosomed himself Mr..
| Garter gave sigh of relief and then sal:
/ down beside the chair on which United
. States Marshal Baldwin was balancing
his slender frame while be divided his
/ after ton between two spectators behind
| him who were talking politics in rather
! loud tones and the row of exiled com.
manders of the army of San Salvador. as
! if, mindful of their sanguinaIy reputation.
they might make sudden dash for lib.
erty and hew their way out OF the
crowded courtroom. even as they fought
their way through the hordes of rebels to
San SalVador's seasbore.
The legal sparring between the special
counsel then began.
Mr.. PiersOn said that he was anxious to
have the cases set for as early day as
possible and suggested something like two
weeks as being in his opinion fair time
for the hearing.
Attorney RubenS was up in arms in A
moment, and so eager was his manner
that the row of warriors, who could not
understand JUS; the csuse of the excite
/ ment, began to look fierce and roll their
eyes as il they expected some serious
trouble. A word from Attorney Quesada.
however. duieted them, and they dropped
the fierce expression which they adopt on
sanouinary occasions and looked calm and
dignfied once more.
That aged Achilles of the Salyadorjan
army. General Bustamente, though. con-
tinued TO frown at all the proceedings
aud occasionally his hand clutched his
side as if he would grasp his trusty blade
and-well, he glanced al NJ arshal Baldwin
until even that doughty hero of the battle
of the freight sheds at Sacramento began
to shift uneasily, then at Judge Morrow.
and once he swept a naughty. defiant
glance at the assem- bled spectators.
Attorney RubeDs, however. was only ex.
cited because be was opposed to any delay
that would keep the exiled survivors of
Santa Ana'S bloody fray in confinement
when they might be released If their cases
were only properly understood by the
court.
There should be no delay in this" seid
MIR. Rubens. General Ezeta and his