Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-07-31
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CASE BEFORE BOARD
Everett Case Similar in Many
Ways to Story Of Or. Jeckyll
and MIR. Hyde

Editor Appeal:
The News recently, referred to the
peculiar corporations and transac-
tions of Frank C. Everett, now con-
fined in the State prison for life.
desire to explain those peculiar trans
actions that have come under my OBJ
servant:
Several years ago he engaed in
teaming and freighting in Mason val
ley Lyon County and became deeply
involved in debt, and he went through
bankruptcy, received his discharged
and became absolved from the pay
ment of any debt. His estate paid
only about ten cents on the dollar.
He subsequently got on his feet, as
we call it, and paid the other ninety
cents to his creditors, when he did
have done likewise when they did
not owe such large percentage and
had enough left, but Everett paid
when he had practically nothing left
except interests in non-paying mining
claims. I consider this very Pc
culiar and unfamiliar transaction, in
deed.
He subsequently went East, orga.
nized a corporation, and brought out
a great deal of money to operate
placer mining claims on the East
Fork of the Carson River, and the
popularity and strangeness of his
transaction was that he spent the
money in actual work on the claims.
He paid his workmen SO cents a day
more than was paid for similar labor
in the neighborhood, although it was
below union rates, there being no
union, and it being even more than
the corporation could pay for develop
ment work. During his operations he
found a number of very encouraging
places, but on the whole it did not
pay and the company was forced to
quit-but all claims were paid. He
had number of old men employed,
and his foreman asked that they be
discharged and younger men en-
ployed and he said never mind:
we will all get old; give them the
easiest jobs you can all of which
should be considered very peculiar
and strange.
He was also instrumental in the
formation of corporation to ope-
rate mines at Cerro Gordo, Cal.
bond has been given to sell those
mines for 100000, and $4,000 has
been paid, and 100000 will become
due next November. The intending
purchasers have expended about $780,
900 in blocking out ore reserves and
building mill and tramway, and they
are still at work. They blocked one
ore measure first, and felt SO en-
couraged that they are proceeding
to reduce the ores. His interest there
is about one-fifteenth. I consider the
foregoing also quite strange and pc
culiar.
Everett was convicted upon the
theory of the prosecution that he was
simply drunk at the time OF the
killing, and that theory took out
! the question as to whether he was
both drunk and insane at that time,
thus forcing the State to occupy the
position that if an insane man kills
| a human being while drunk he Is
respop sible for his acts and irresponsi-
BILE if sober at that time. All au-
thorities agree that epilepsy incites
the patient to drink and drink excites
the disease. All authorities agree,
without a single exception that for
some time before an attack and for
some time after, the patients have
10 recollection and do not know what
they do. The period of forgetfulness
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