Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1902-05-02
A MATTER OF DISTANCES.

Some peculiar situations are oc-
easionally brought about In Nevada
by the routes necessary to take in go
ing from one portion of the State to
another.
A pretty problem Of this sort pre-
sented itself to the United States
Marshals Office In this city recently.
Marahal Emmitt received a warrant
issued by the United States Court in
salt Lake City, Utah, calling for the
arrest of man who was known to be
In DeLamar. Lincoln County, Nevada
The Utah Court desired the Marshal
Of Neyaaa to arrest him and take him
TO Salt Lake
Now a pilgrim from Carson City
Who wishes 70 get to DeLamar, Neva
Ia, goes by the way OF Salt Lake and
de travels Just few miles less than
100q IN getting there. The United
states prohibits the removal Of a pris.
oner under arrest, from one State TO
another without the order of the Judge
presiding in the State where he is ar.
rested-ir this case Judge Hawley In
Carson City. TO get this order the
prisoner OF the United States arrested
In Nevada must be brought before
Judge Hawley before he can be taken
to any other State. For Marshal En-.
mltt to comply with the order of the
Utah Court, he would have 10 take
the train at Carson City and go to
Salt Lake, thence back into Nevada
and down to DeLamar, 1000 miles;
then to obtain the authority to take
him out OF the State and deliver him
ever to the Utah officers. he would
have to take his man back over the
same route, and 10 Carson City, an
other 1000 miles. Here Judge Hawley
would issue the order allowing the
prisoner to be removed from the State
and the Marshal would then take his
man back TO Salt Lake City again
where he was wanted, coo miles and
when he had got back to his home in
this city he would have travelled just
5000 miles to transfer a prisoner from
De Lamar to Salt Lake City--a dis
tance of about 300 miles.
This presented some difficulties. 1t
would at least make the trip a very
expensive one; but just az the Mar
shal had figured out that he would
be spending the. summer between Car
son and Salt Lake City. new difficul-
ty arose.
To take ms man out of Nevada and
turn him over to the Utah authorities
he must bring him before Judge Haw-
ley In Carson and get permission, and
TO bring him TO Carson he had to take
hi mout OF Nevada by way of Salt
Lake: so the proposition settled down
to q plain proposition that to take his
man out of Nevada he must first
bring him to Carson, and to bring him
TO Carson he must first take him out
of the State, SO there was skirmish
through the pages of the Federal Stat
utes and the Almanac and the de-
puties were even put to work reading
the Patent Office Reports. while Mr..
Emmitt kept the typewriter busy ex-
planning TO the Utah authorities that
they really did not want the DeLamar
man anyway--that he wasn't much OF
a man at his best and the Nevada
officers felt sure their brethren of
Utah would be dissatisfied when they
got him. Just as deputy Humphries
struck the solution of having the gov
ernment buy a pack train of mules
loaded with water and provisions. and
going TO DeLamar, strapping the pri5-
oner on a mule and bringing him
straight TO Carson over the deserts,
word was received from Utah. that af'
ter reconsidering the matter and the
many difficulties 1t presented. they
had come to the conclusion that they
did not need the man so bad after all.
And so what might have resulted In
splendid prospecting tour, with pack