The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-13
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""The bills, which We're held as evil
dence, were placed in a little envelope
day of the hearing came the envelope
was taken to CAMS court and laid on
the desk When the case was we'll
started the telephone bell rang and
Cam was called into his private office.
He took the envelope with the money
out with him and closed the door lead
| ing into the hall in the Marion block,
| from the private Office of the court.
Still another door leads from the hall
| into the court room.
"'When the old sport got into his pri-
vate office he looked at those bills,
marked the numbers down on a piece
! of paper and slipped the paper out to
another man in the hall. That man
took the paper with the numbers to
| Mcdonald in the court room, and the
judge resumed the bench.
AFTER the testimony Of the state
had been put in, Mcdonald took the
stand in his own defense. He said that
he had received the 500 bills from his
wife, who had sold some property for
him in Chicago. He told the court
that in order to guard against loss he
had taken the numbers of the bills and
had them in his memorandum book. He
read off the numbers, and they were
the same as those on the bills. The
could do nothing then but dismiss the
case, and he did. I don't know how
| much he did get out of it, but it was a
nice little sum-
murder case is an example of the man.
ner in which justice is dealt out in his
| court. Before a word of testimony had
! been offered by the defense Cam had
written his entire decision and had it
ready. He had decided the case in the
| back room Of a saloon on Cherry street.
Decision Before Testimony
| After the states case had been
closed it looked bad for Petit and Obab-
sha. That night, however. an interest
! ed person called Cam up over the tele-
phone and made an appointment with
him in the back room of the saloon.
| When the person first called for the
| justice, Cam was at the residence of
a friend assisting in arranging the de-
tails of a funeral He FASTENED to fill
the appointment, however, and was at
the saloon on time. 1t was arranged
! that Petit, who was the money getter,'
| of the local Asatic tribesmen, should
should be bound over to the superior
court.
A newspaper reporter walked into
the office of the court the next day, af-
| ter the consultation in the saloon, and
found the justice scribbing off his de-
cision At that time not one word of
testimony for the defense had gone in
Cam kept his word. He discharged
Petit, and held the other man for trial
In order to thwart the plans ar
ranged b. the defense the prosecuting
attorney authorized the rearrest of Pc
tit. and the case stands in that shape
now
The magisterial mountebank who
now has been uncermoniously sponged
off the political slate of the future by
a general revulsion of all the press
and public against the travesity upon
justice involved in his occupancy Of
the magistrates bench, still has nine
months to serve of his present term.
Push and Pull Look Alike.
Push and pull look alike to Cam
Both spell profit to his judicial mill, and
that is what he is there for Within
the last week he has given a reminder
of his attitude toward professional vice,
which surprised nobody who knew him.
When the chief of police sent out the
dragnet for certain classes Of crfm-
inal pests this judicial Dogberry took
a few minutes off to telephone into
headquarters his sympathy with the
crusade. and state his delirious anxiety
to help lead in the crusade.
Everybody laughed and went his
way. Nobody expected that this pc
culiar court would learn any new
tricks in his old age and no surprise
was manifested because his honor
pursued his usual course when the first
cases came before him to test the DOW
er of the police department to rid the
city Of criminal parasites. The public
had to think twice to become indignant.
The suggestion has been made that
Cam be invited to resign. Advocates
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