The herald., 1897-04-09
AN ODDCHANCE
The Roscoe Train Wrecker
Will Take 1t
A BAD FACE WASH
A ParaIytic Tramp Who Plays
the Hospitals
ONE PREFERRED CREDITOR
THE ELECTRIC FRANCHISE CASE
CLOSES TODAY
ONE PREFERRED CREDITOR
THE ELECTRIC FRANCHISE CASE
CLOSES TODAY
Trouble Over the orpheum Bar Lease.
The Times Libel Suit-Tears
Win Case-Heavy Fine
for Liquor Selling

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The matter of kid" Thompson hav-
ing acted contrary to the advice of his
counsel was the theme of conversa-
ton about the court house yesterday
The allusion yesterday to the probaoili-
ty of a ten years sentence was hardly
correct. and, indeed, it is whispered
that this very question of the term he
would have got in the states prison Is
the reason that the kid" refused to al
low the underground railroad plan to
go through. An air of mystery has
been thrown around the plan devised
to save the county large amount or
money, an equally large amount of
trouble, and that would have put the
kid" out of the way from giving any
further annoyance. AS a consequence,
what information has transpired in
connection with the matter has been in
homeopathic doses-a very little at
a time, but plenty of it in the aggre-
gate.
The stipulations between the Kids"
COunSel anu lilt QlStllSl dttOihSJ . ~
fee were all in order. and albeit the de-
fendant himself denies that he agreed
to any stipulation, the standing of
Messrs. Goodrich and Harris is indica-
tive of the fact that they were war
ranted in what they did But in order
to give an air of completeness to the
scheme it was necessary that the KID
should have some assurance that after
I<,A hA
township court and he found himself
at o'clock in the morning standing up
for sentence in department one, he
should not get life sentence. His side
partner in the Roscoe affair got life
sentence after turning states evidence,
and the Kid" seems to incline rather
to the gallows than a life term. This
assurance that he would get ten, fif-
teen, or even twenty years sentence
was not forthcoming. Judge Smith,
while a humane man, has never shown
any disposition to be wasteful of SYM
pathy over kid" Thompson, and the
latter had no certainty that when he
pleaded guilty to murder in the sec
ond degree he would not get the life
punishment accorded to that crime.
This is the explanation being given of
the Kids obduracy, which resulted in
breaking the slate so nicely prepared.
Meantime there has been a slight
change in the situation. Attorneys
Goodrich and Harris have retired as at
rorneys of record, and B. ]. Noonan Phil
lips Esq, is associated with D. h.
Trask ESQ. as counsel for the defend
ant In all the maneuvering it is rather
odd that Mr.. Trask has not appeared,
and yet it is to his efforts. perhaps,
more than to those of either Mr.. Good
Itch or Mr. Harris, that the kid" was
not hanged upon the date originally
set.
The kid" Thompson case is rendered
notable, among other things, because
there were three appeals taken to the
supreme court. The first was an ap-
peal from the judgment, the next from
the order denying a new trial, and the
third from the order denying a stay of
execution After the first appeal was
filed the transcript and papers in the
second appeal were deposited all ready
for filing but were not filed until some
months later, when the news came that
the supreme court had Knocked out the
first appeal. Then Mr. Trask at once
filed his second papers. The district at
torneys office was not happy at the
quick work of Mr.. Trask, and there
was some talk of a motion to dismiss.
But it was on that appeal that the su-
preme court handed down the opinion
that is calculated to make counsel OH
either side in the kid" Thompson case
tie their brains up in double bow knots
trying to understand by what kind of
logical reasoning the court arrived at
its conclusions.
Yesterday afternoon the defendant
asked to be permitted to come into court.
as he desired to see Judge Smith in con-
nection with his case 1t being then
nearly clock the request was not grant
cd. When the trial begins on Tuesday
next Charles EtZler, who, with Alva
Johnson, are the most important wit
nesses against Thompson, will be pres
ent, his whereabouts at Yuma having
been discovered by Miles Bowler, the
Southern Pacific detective.
The continued absence Of Etzler since
the trial and conviction of Thompson
in 1895 has caused the officers much
worry, and considerable money has been
wasted in effectual attempts to secure
his presence at the coming trial II
was at first supposed that he had pur-
posely gone into hiding, and for reasons
best known to himself, preferred nor
TO appear against Thompson, but this
fear on the part of the prosecution ap-
pears to have been incorrect He has
been working at odd jobs about the
country for the past two years and only
recently did he go out of the state. Etz-
ler arrived here yesterday morning from
Yuma. and the prosecution now has the
missing link in the chain of evidence
against Thompson.
CHEEKY ARAIYTIC