The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-07-21
EVERETT HAD A
DUAL

The trial Of Frank Everett, a mine
owner of Keller, Cal, and OF Nevada,
who has just been found guilty of one
Of the most cold-blooded murders ever
committed in this state, revealed a
strange case of dual personality in the
convicted man. Everett is president and
general anage of the Cerra Gorda
mines at Keller. In years past these
mines have produced millions of dollars
worth Of gold. silver and lead bearing
ore. He was also manager of a large
smelter at Keller. During the evening
of April IL Everett INDUCED in a wild
debauch in the little town of Nina, a
criminal for the Tonopah railroad. Suf-
fering from the after effects of this the
next morning. he wandered into the
round house of the railroad company
and ordered a special train for himself
to Tonopah. The train was not forth
coming, and an alteration ensued be-
tween Everett and the master mechanic
of the road. Michael Z. Malone. Angered
by Everetts words Malon raised a
wrench to strike him, but changed his
mind and walked away. Five minutes
later while he was inspecting some work
on an engine, Everett walked up behind
him and without the slightest warning
shot him through the head killing him
almost instantly.
The trial which has just been conclud-
ed was held at Hawthorne, the county
seat. 1t occupied three weeks of steady
proceeding from early morning till late
evening, and more than forty witnesses
were examined and the most noted spe-
~cialists of two coasts were engaged. s.
e. Vermilyea of Goldield, one of the
noted criminal lawyers of the Pacific
coast defended Everett. The plea of in
sanity was advanced, but found little
sympathy on the part of the jury as the
state proved without difficulty that the
prisoner had been drinking heavily the
night before the crime was committed.
For hours several members of that body
stood out for capital punishment, but
the verdict as finally rendered was muir
der in the second degree.
1t was brought out during the trial
that Everett has for years led an exist
ence almost as strange as Stevenson's
story of DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde. In
1889 he married the president of a
Christian Endeavor society at Smith
Valley, Nevada, and openly ~renounced
m former evil habits he had. Since
then to all appearances he has been a
model husband and a devout Christian.
He insisted upon total abstinence on
the part OF all his employees, and his
family never knew him to take a drink
of any intoxicating beverage. At the
table he always offered up prayer before
meals and held evening prayer in which
all his employees had to join. In his
leisure moments he did considerable
evangelistic work. At frequent inter-
walls he disappeared mysteriously from
the community in which he lived. Many
of these absences were accounted for at
the trial, more than a score of witnesses
t~estifying to a series of debauches, re-
voting in their details, in which Everett
was the principal. One witness, a form
er friend of Everett, testified that the
latter had confided to him just before
his marriage that he had won the
president of the Christian Endeavor So
ciety," and that when it came to praying
he could ''outpray any -- in the
whole Christian Endeavor bunch" Other
testimony related in detail o Everett
had addressed a prayer meeting in the
town one evening, and exhorted all pres
ent to lead a better life. Immediately
after the meeting he invited two men
friends who were present at the meeting
to accompany him, and led them on
through the red light district of the
town, INDUCING the while in the most
I;oooIuto bind Of amuSement