The San Francisco call., 1898-06-25

taken the trouble to more fully answer the allegations. His Honor also stated that if there was any further evidence to come from the prosecution he would continue the case from yesterday till Monday next.
 No further showing was made by the District Attorneys office, and when the cause came up yesterday it was made known to the Judge that the prosecution had been practically abandoned in his court and that the prosecution had gone before the Grand Jury and obtained ln- dictments of the defendants. As this ad- vanced the case to the Superior Court, Judge Joachimsen stated that there was nothing left for him to do but dismiss the charges and exonerate the bondSmen. This was accordingly done, Prosecuting Attorney Graham stating incidentally that he~entirely concurred in the state ments made in Bakers brief, and consid- cred the action of the prosecution an af front to the court, whether it was inten- tional or not.
 The recital of the evidence in the case and the deductions therefrom, in Attor- ney Bakers brief, make very warm read ing, such as is seldom seen in docu- ment of the kind. A sample of the vehe- mence of Mir. Baker is shown in the fol- lowing extract from his allegations re- ferring to AZhderian and Miss Loose:
 Why should the court be asked to do what the prosecuting witness has not done. namely. declare that these two defendants have made threats and extorted money from the prosecut- ing witness, when the witness himself did not even hint at such thing? What does it mat ter in the face of these stubborn facts what Azhderian said to any other person, or who sat his lap. or under whose bed his shoes were or how far he walked barefooted, or whose leg he going to pull or how much money he expected to make. or any other Of the the garvaman being did he threaten to ex- pose Nevills to his wife for adultery and by reason of such threat did Nevils part with his proper property? Most assurediy not. and neither did Mrs. Loose; and as to them it does not f0 ha Of testimony. There is absolutely no evidence to support the charge at all against these two people.
 In drawing conclusions from the evil dence the brief further says:
 Surely it is such open perversion of the testimony in the case to cast suspicion upon the good faith and candor of that officer for their incarceration when it must be known to him that neither the law nor the evidence tins. even if that green-eyed, iecherous se- ducer of woman's virtue who swore to the complaint i'll this case is.
 After enumerating various so-called in- constituencies in the prosecution's allega- tions Attorney Baker concludes his heavily charged document with the fol- lowing caloric assertions:
 Since the foregoing matter reduced to form l advised that the District Attorney has marshaled his witnesses before the Grand Jury and procured the indictment of these de- fendants by that most august tribunal
 Again the yellow metal from the Rawhide mine intrudes its hydra head. In one of the public journals this morning the following paragraph appears
 For some time past Elsie Williams. Grace Loose. her sister. and Myron Azhderian have been in the Police Court defendants, the charge preferred against them by Captain Nevills being extortion. District Attorney Barnes, not feeling satisfied with the Police Court ,J-aceedings had examination of the chief witnesses before the Grand Jury and se- cured indictment.
 What occasion has been shown in this case for the District Attorney to abandon prose cution in the Police Court that he has kept in motion for than weeks? Is it Ia VI hnt their homes, placed under heavy bonds re- quired to dance attendance upon court for nearly two months where the proceedings have been orderly and legally conducted and all the facts connected with the crime brought out and reduced to writing, the argued and submitted, and the day before Judgment is to be announced in secret and star chamber