Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-05
THE NEWSPAPERS, THE COURT AND THE LAWYERS,

AND THE LAWYERS.
 A telephone message to the Review rom Tombstone on Saturday evening gave an account of a few remarks passed by the court anent the news papers of COchise county. in which the Court took occasion to complain of the manner in which the press handled the news in reference to criminal eases to be tried in this county.
 The remarks were made in conjunc- tlon with the change of venue granted tn the Sauvage murder case, which vas transferred to Santa Cruz county. The Court made it appear that the change of venue in the Sauvage case was the result of newspaper comment and laid the extra expense, occasioned by the transfer of the case to Santa Cruz county, at the door of the news papers, to which the Review excepts. We have no doubt but what the af- fidayits presented in the case set out the above condition, but the Court erred in giving heed to these affi- 5avits for change of venue, if the onIy reason advanced was. that news papers of the county had commented upon the case. The Review asserts that it had a | right, morally and legally. to publish every line that it has published, and ehat such publications were not of the lind tending to influence a juror for Or against the defendants. The only editorial mention made of the case was in reference to an affidavit filed last week, prepared by Attorney Ben nett, which was on the day following proven in court to have been perjured, and which entailed upon the business men of the community, and other communities throughout the county the necessity of a trip to Tombstone to prove that the aforesaid affidavit vas, in part at least, a perjured af- zI5avit.
 The Review branded this action by the attorney as a small piece of busi. ness. which charge was already sub slantiated. This was the sole editorial mention in this paper with reference to the Sauvage case and had no bear Ing whatever upon it's merits.
 The Review believes that the Court could have obtained twenty different 1urys to try the Sauyage meurder ease in Cochise county, who never heard of the case, and that fifty pan els could have been obtained who never read of the case in the news papers. In casting about for an ex- euse to take the case to some other county the lawyers for the defense built up a mountain out of a mole hill and the surprising part of the pro- ceedings is that the Court should have been influenced by such affidavits, prepared by Attorney Bennett, who has proven conclusively that he can present any old kind of an affi- uavit on any subject on the shortest notice.
 The Court, or the taxpayers, have nothing to fear from the newspapers sf Cochise county, and an attempt to unload the expense of the change of venue in the Sauvage case upon the shoulders of the newspaper men, through the medium of affidavits, will fsli far short of the mark. The peo- pie in general, and the readers of The newspapers of the county in par tlcular, will take no stock in such pro. esedings.
 The newspapers of the county. and especially the Review, are a friend to the Court. in an honest effort to administer justice and to have cases Tn this c9unty tried on their merits The mission of the press is to print the news. A murder case is a piece of news; stories of eye witnesses is news; new developments in the case IS news; sensational affidavits filed in the case, is news, and all of these things connected with a news story the Review has always printed and zhall continue to print.
 The taxpayers of Cochise county, howver, are in danger from a small eoterie of irresponsible lawyers at present practicing in this county, and the Court can do more toward cutting down the expenses attending the trial 0f criminal cases, by bringing some of these gentlemen up with a sharp turn, both on the part of the prosecution and the defense, instead of listening to afhdavits charging the newspapers with an expensive condition of affairs.
 The Review. speaking as one of the