Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-29
SOME FACTS IN
 THE TRIMBLE CASE
CHARLES HANSEN WAS ON THE GRAND JURY WHICH IN-
 DiCTEO TRiMBLE.

DlCTEO TRlMBEE.
 lie Accounts Some of the Horrible
 Facts Which Were Brought Out Be
 fore the Jury-The Pardon of This
 Brute Was an Outrage.
 The recent action of Governor Kib bey in pardoning Walter Trimble, who was serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for anassault upon a little stepdaughter, committed at Clifton, Graham county. about four years ago, has brought out the follow. ing interview with Charles Hansen of this city. Mir. Hansen is not deli. cate in his characterizing of the gov ernor's action, and as he was a mem Der of the grand jury which indicted Trimble and his wife, he is in a DO sition to know every fact in the case Mir. Hansen for the last three weeks has been at his Monte Vista mine in Sonora, returning yesterday, when he learned of the pardon.
 T cannot understand why a sane man should pardon such brute as Trimble," he said in beginning the interview. ''The grand jury devoted two whole days to this case. got every scrap of evidence obtainable, and, in the secrecy of its operations brought out much evidence which was not presented to the trial jury on account of its indecency.
 Not a witness presented to the grand jury by the defense would give Trimble a good reputation. The phy- sician who treated the little girl who was not then thirteen years of age. stated to the jury that when he made the examination he found that the crime had been committed within less than an hour. and that physical. He found a big scar on her arm which was made by human teeth, and an other on her leg, which was probably made by striking the corner of a bed
 The witness who had called the doctor at the time stated that the little girl ran screaming out of the place where she had been outraged, crossed the river and ran to his house. She was hysterical with pain and fright and was removed to the house of the physician, where she was confined to bed for three weeks
 The girl had a sister sixteen years of age, who testified before the grand jury that she herself had been out ragged by her stepfather. with her mothers assistance and forced to go with men for money, the latter being taken forcibly away from her by her mother and stepfather. She also tes. tified, as did the victim, that she heard her parents talking of reducing the little girl to her state. that, being little, much money could be gotten for her.
 There was no reason to doubt these witnesses at this time, asa I can see no reason to do so now. The grand jury saw that scar on the girls arm, and the person that says it was due to vaccination is liar, and not an unknowing one, either.
 Governor BrOdie investigated the case thoroughly The mans record was secured from Fl Paso. whence he hailed and was found to be thor oughly bad. He left the case as it was, and every district attorney that has acte dat all in the case has op- posed a pardon.
 Had we who composed that grand jury not been such body, and yet had the positive information which we did have, there would have been no trial. The brute would have been lynched, as he deserved.
 The grand jury's investigation oi this case was as thorough and careful as it is possible for humanity to be The trial jury which did not have all the evidence we had, was con vinced and gave TrimbIe the limit That ought 10 satisfy any one WhC cares for decency and the welfare o society, but if not, then the Fl Past papers, which are or should be on fil' now and available for investigation should convince a graven image Bu it did not seem to convince or influ ence Kibbey.
 "As for the story that the girl Iiet and concocted a scheme to reveng, a grudge, it is preposterous. In tn, first place the child did not have tn brain to do this. She was but bab, and without having suffered in tn, manner she did would have know nothing about such matters. In tn second place she could hardly hav secured the aid of a physician am the person who called him in the case to revenge her real or fancied privat wrongs. And, thirdly although tn man and woman had robbed the eide sister of all womanhood, and mad her an outcast, under the circum stances, I believe, and the other mem bers of the jury believed her state ments as to the foulness of the peopl in whose hands she was unfortunat, enough to have been placed.
 Altogether the action of Goyerno Kibbey in this matter strikes me al being the most uRpardonable thing !; man could do, and cannot find word: to express my disgust at the actioI If am unjust, then it is because h. is insane, which am more than hal way inclined to believe, in which cast he should be in an asylum where hs cannot turn loose on decent people such ffends as Trimble"
 Ed Clothier returned yesterday af ternoon from Paradise. He found tht camp to be in good condition and pre- a