Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-09-11
THE MORNING APPEAL.
REGARDING DETECTIVES.

attitude of h
Editor lennon got squeezed while
trying to create public feeling in be
half of the defendants in the Mint
cases. which of itself as a suspicious
circumstance again-t the defendants.
Had he been an Informed gentle
man and able writer, he would have
contented himself by saying that the
pros cution was being handled by de-
tectives. He could bring no stronger
Indictment before AT intelligent pub
lie. Alexander Won Humboldt. de-
scribing a peculiarly dirty tribe of
South American Indians. wrote about
a certain article of diet being so
filthy that the OttOmacs eat it. To in
dulge in plagiarism. | would say that
there are acts so utterly contemplate
that detectives commit them.
It seems to give a certain class of
people grave concern that detectives
have been sent to this city, clear from
Washington TO find ont who stole bull
lion from the U. S, Mint.
Some people in Carson seem TO re-
gard the action of the Government, as
an unwarrantable interference in the
rights Of private citizens. and some
thing that should be frowned down.
They seem to consider it an outrage
that Inspector Mason, in his capacity
as a Government officer, went prying
about the Mint, and in a secret and
underhanded manner assayed some
bullion, and found that it did not con
tain, by many thousands of dollars,
49, o,,o,,n ~ cold IN OF If ShOy11I o0n-
tain. Some more assays showed that
someone had taken the gold out Of
the bars, and substituted silver. What
was done with the $4,000 in gold,
taken from the Mint is more than we
can tell.
1t was not in our opinion donated
to some charitable institution, but
then again it may have been. But
the main thing kept in view is the
mean and sordid action of the Z. S.
Government in insisting on kicking
up a rumpus over a little old $50, 200,
and insisting on sending someone
to Jail for taking it.
We opine that the utter heartless-
HISS VI d ltCpuollS ~ liz
farther. In addition to this it sends a
low-lifed, sneaklng detective to the
city, who skulks about under an as
sumed name, and pokes his nose into
the private business of the parties
charged with the theft. Can anything
more outrageous be imagined, The
same people seem to think hat the
business of catching thieves, is so
much worse than thieving that in the
general condemnation of detectives
methods, the original crime is utterly
overlooked.
If the detective system were en-
tirely abolished, what a paradise for
public thieves a Government office
would be. There are certain sections
Of the South in the M%oOnshine
whiskey districts, where the hand of
every man is against the detective
The people who populate these dis
tricts are thieves. cutthrOats, SNUG
glers, midnight marauders and gen
eral outlaws. We would very much
dislike to have Nevada get a similar
reputation, but il newspapers published
in the vicinity of the Mint robberies,
throw every possible obstacle in the
way of justice, slur the judges, jury
and attorneys and try to create the
idea that the Government is repre-.
sented by a lot Of jobbers and frauds
it will not take long for Eastern peo-
pie to regard the State of Nevada as
an uncivilized region like the Moon.
shine districts of Kentucky.
The reputation of the State has beer
disgraced by the mint robberies. and
every decent, law abiding either
should do all in his power to assist
and not hamper the official inquiry
If the defendants are innocent, the
quicker they get into Court and prove
their innocence the better. If the,
are guilty, the public are equally in
terested in knowing it. From thu
stubborn character of the fight nov
being made in their behalf, n Q
two ideas presents itself to the Oh
server. They are either guilty a
charged, or are fighting to ave some
one in the background. We cal
state with perfect safety that the figh
being now made by certain new
papers on behalf of the defendant
IS doing the case more harm thai
any other one thing now being done il
their behalf. The journalistic allie
they have pressed into the service ar
fast becoming a public laughin;
stock. Every citizen in this com
munity is interested in having tn