Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-05-06
Jones' sentsnos.

the Carson mint Of bullion, was SEN
fenced Monday morning by Judge
Hawley to eight years in prisoh and
TO pay a fine OF 5000.
The Carson News says that after tho
usual question asking Hsf6ndant IL rs
had any legal cause to chow why sem
tence should not be pronounced upon
him, and the reply that there was none
the Judge ordered Jones to stand up
and said:
"HoW different to-day Is the feeling
in this community from what 1t was
when the mint trials first commenced.
SbAakfnk geperally. at that time the
feeling of the community a. expressed
IN the public preSs Of the county-a
portion OF it-and IL the community,
that tins was not q prosecution but a
persecution upon the part Of the gov
eminent of the United States; That
the trial would be "a FARCE Fand thkt
nobody wohid be convicted. In the
early commencement of the trial
every interest that could be brought
to bear was exercised in behalf OF the
defendants accused of committing the
offense. Even fraud, perjury, bribery
and corruption was brought to bear
to influence and control the court and
control the community. Throughout
it all the officers OF the court we're to
some extent abused; honest witness
es endeavoring to tell the truth in
court of justice were abused. To-day
the magnanimity Of the law stands
indicated. The ends OF justice have
been reached. l have ON occasions
like this hitherto wished that / had
the power, the strength, the ability,
the magnetism as it were to reach
the young people in this community
to impress upon them the absolute
necessity as they enter life to be good
men and true and strictly to obey the
laws of the government under which
they live and which affords the COM
munity the only shield and protection
which it possesses. I hope that what
has occurred may have its effect not
alone upon the parties who have been
convicted but that it will go out and
reach these young men, to have them
walk in the middle Of the road, to be
straight and honest and true and
truthful in all their transactions with
their fellowmen.
81 wish that from the dark lining
could see some reason, in my own
mind, as an excuse for the position in
which you have been placed. cannot
do so; but have always been firm
believer that In the protection Of soci-
ETY., in the protection of the commun-
ity, it is reached more by the certain
ty Of conviction and the certainty
Of punishment than the severity of it.
@The sentence OF the court is. that
you be confined in the states prison
OF the State of Nevada for a period Of
eight years at hard labor, and be
fined i'll the sum Of five thousand dol
lars.
"Now, Mr.. Jones, you have it with
in your power to lesson this term of
imprisonment by a strict obedience
to the rules and regulations of the
prison and impress upon you the
necessity Of obeying their laws. their
rules and their regulations. Make
your time as short as you can. Think
now, if you never have before, Of your
wife and children; think Of the friends
that you have had; remember that
it is in your power, being yet young
man, to come out of prison; You
have a long life yet before you, and
when you come out seek by an honest
life to remove the stain which is left
upon your family" q
All through the judges talk John
L. Jones stood apparently unmoved,
but the calm, remarkable nerve that
has been with him all along had dis
appeared and in it's place we're signs