The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-01-03
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Judge Talbot scored the jury at Ely in
the Dolan murder case when they brought
In verdict of murder in the second degre Q
with recommendation for mercy from the
court after being out six hours. The
murder was committed in cold blood and
the perpetrator should have had date fixed
for the stretching of his neck, rather than
one for the beginning of his incarceration
Speaking of the case, the White Pine News
says:
In pronouncing sentence, Judge Talbot
said in answer to the request of Doan's
counsel, that the Court exercise mercy
toward the prisoner as recommended, the
Jury, that he could find no extenuatng CT. .
cumstances, no evidence which showed that
Dolan had the slightest cause or justification
for committing the deed, that he had will.
fully and maliciously taken the life of his
fellow-man without any provocation what
ever That notwithstanding the pre-.
ponderance of evidence branding Dolan 40 q
vicious and dangerous criminal while ma.
jority of the jury voted for murder in the
first degree, two of the jurors had on first
ballot voted for acquittal. He did not deem
the recommendation to mercy as fair sx.
preston of the feeling of the Jury, that part
OF the verdict would seem to be forced as
compromise by the two in favor Of acquittal;
that he (the judge did not regard such
persons as good citizens who had so little re-
gard for society and the laws of their State
and the country, as to hazard the peace of
the public by turning SO dangerous and de-
PRAYED man at large in the community.
That society would be endangered and not
secured that protection which the laws
guarantees were the courts to allow the
appeals of interested and injudicous parties
to materially influence them in cases similar
to the one in question. He would therefore
be compelled TO disregard the unwise sug-
gestions OF the Jury, in regard to showing
the prisoner at the bar any mercy, and that
1T was the sentence of the court, that he
Patrick I. Dolan be confined in the States
Prison at Carson for the period of his natural
life"
The crime for which Dolan is doomed to
pass the remainder of his days within the
gloomy walls Of prison cell, is still fresh
In the minds of our readers, and calls for no
review at this time. All the evidence given
in the case corroborates the correctness Of
the statements given in the News at the
time of the killing That a war of words
passed between Dolan and Green on the day
OF election. That after reaching his home 9
miles from Cherry Creek, the same evening.
on seeing team passing along the road from
Cherry Creek in the direction of Greene's
and thinking it was Greene on his way
home, hurried down to the road and pre-
senting double barreled shotgun brought
the driver to halt. 1t proved to be Harry
Gilmore, the stage driver and Dolan allowed
him to pass. He then went back to the
house and after celebrating on the deed all
night went back to Cherry Creek the next
morning and in the presence of a dozen
witnesses deliberately killed Greene, and
upon being asked what he had done replied
II have done what came in to do" A
more dastardly and fendish deed never was
pcrpetrated in this section of the country.