Arizona silver belt., 1899-01-12
A nURDsROUS ASSAULT.
E. ]. Edwards Attack or the Editor
 of the Silver Belt.

An account of the cowardly and bru tal assault made by E. J. Edwards upon Jos. H. Hamill, editor of this pa per on Wednesday night, January 4, is belated by reason of the serious ln juries inflicted upon our person, and 4 from which we nre now only partially recovered.
 In the issue of the SILVER BELT fol. lowing the killing of Charles Cndot'e, there appeared an editorial deploring 1 the unlawful taking of human life and charging that the shooting of Cadotts was unjustitiable That article was very generally approved among our readers, except MT Edwards and his personal friends
 That the case WAS considered desper. ate for the defense is shown by the successful effort made to secure an ad. journment of court from Dec. 2l to January 3, and an order for a spec ial yenire of 50 jurymen taken mostly from the country precincts where E. J, Edwards is reputed to have stauuch friends. Two attorneys of reputation as criminal lawyers were employ ed from q distance, and in the conduct of the case by the defense nothing was overlooked that might in any way accrue to the advantage of the prisoner at the bar The rulings of the court in favor of the defense were extremely liberal in the matter of the introduction of evidence. Under such circumstances the verdict of jury may scqult the prisoner, but does not necessarily vim dicate him; and in our opinion did not vindicate Chas E. Edwards. and as we so expressed ourseli.
 What we have said regarding the case ss above indicated, constitutes the "provocation" which Mr. Edwards, doubtless, thinks justified him in msk- Ing an attack upon deferseless man, of which an untutored savage might we'll feel ashamed. We were struck down, without warning of the attack, and as We lay ihsensible at the feet of this monster, he stamped upon our face, head and neck, ua,il the blood flowed from many wounds. Could anything he more revUlting than this to people not utterly deprayed?
 1t was then that tue younger Ed wards (only just released from the clutches of tue law) wanted to finish the job, but ;he father felt equal to the occnsien, and was prepar ing to administer the coup de grace when two bystenders mercifully inter. posed to prevent the further mutilation of the victim, then supposed 10 be dead, and in doing which one of them was cut across three fingers and the aeel of the hand by knife in [. J. Edwards possession.
 Well, the editor had still spark of life remaining in him and revived sitter being taken to his home by kind friends.
 On the following day Edwards sent us verbal message, conveying the threat, that if we ever saId anything about him again in our paper that ho would kill LIS il he knew he would be strung up the next minute.
 We don't kuow how the public will view it, bat to us the threat Is as des- picable as was his murderops work of the night prevIons. IL wos RI attempt to iutimidate his victim and prevent wider publicity being given to his coxsrdly and inhuman ncts, AS a newsmOnger It is our privilege ant q | duty we owe to our renders to acquaint them of E. J. Edwards exploits, ns well AS 1t is to publish the arrest of a hobo for vagsancy. And which re calls the fact that Mir Edwards plead guilty to aggravated assault, and wat fued thirty dollars, ny Justice Whul. 1 ley, when be should have received the limit, 53UO. But Mir. Wballey said he thought that was about right, as it wa; as much as he would fine 'hoho. , 50 be It known to the people of Globe, that in Judge Vim. Whalley's court, assault with intent to commit murder ana hObuing are crimes of equa