Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1902-05-09
a MATTER OF DISTANCES.

IN going from one portion OF til,
StMte toarather
A pretty problem OF ihis sort pre-
sta ted itself to the United States
MnrshaPs Office in this city recently
Marshal Emmitt received war.
rant issued by the United States
Court in Salt Lake City, Utah. call
ing for the arrest of a man who was
knnRn 10 bein DeLamar, Lincoln
G .nty. Nevada. The Utah Court
desired the Marshal Of Nevada to
arrest him and take him to Salt
fake.
Now pilgrim from Carson City
who wishes to go to DeLamar, New
ada, goes by the way of Salt Lake
and he travels just few miles less
thau 1000 in getting there. The
United States prohibits the removal
of a prisoner under arrest, from one
state to another without the order of
the Judge presiding in the State
where he is arrested--in this case
Judge Hawley is in Carson City. To
get this order the prisoner OF the
United States arrested in Nevada
must be brought before Judge Haw-
ley before he can be taken to any
other State. For Marshal EmInitt
to comply with the order of the
Utah Court, he would have to take
the train at Carson City and go to
Salt Lake, thence back into Nevada
and down to DeLsmar, 1000 miles;
then to obtain the authority to take
him out of the State and deliver him
over to the Utah officers. Le would
have to take his man back over the
same route, and to Carson City,
smother 1000 miles. Here Judge
Hawley would issue the order allow
ing 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,
900 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 DeLamar
to Salt Lake City "a distance of
about 800 miles.
This presented some difficulties.
1t would at least make the trip a
very expensive one; but just as the |
Marshal had figured out that he
would be spending the summer
between Carson and Salt Lake City, !
new difficulty arose.
To take his man out of Nevada
and turn him over to the Utah |
authorities he must bring him before
Judge Hawley in Carson and get
permission, and to bring him to
Carson he had to take him out of |
Nevada by way Of Salt Lake; so the
proposition settled down to plain
proposition that to take his man out
Of Nevada he must FIRST bring him to |
Carson, and to bring him 10 Carson
he must first take him out OF the
State, so there was skirmish |
through the pages of the Federal
Statutes and the Almanac and the
deputies were even put to work read
ing the Patent Office Reports, |
while Mr.. Emmitt kept the type
writer busy explaining 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 Humphry struck the
solution of having the government
buy pack train of mules loaded
with water and provisions, and
going to DeLamar, strapping the
prisoner on mule and bringing
him straight to Carson over the
deserts, word was received from
Utah; that after reconsidering the
matter and lhe 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 train OF government mules,
was cancelled and the man wanted
by the u 8. authorities is still at
DeLamar and is probably safe as
long as he remains there. e.--Carson