The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-10
REV. GREEN FIELD
ON THE DWYER
CASE

Rev. George Greenfield of Elko,
former pastor of the M. r. church
here, delivered timely and master
ly address at the NJ +. church last
evening, in which he presented the
facts in the case of Patsy Dwyer, and
the unjust and unfair verdict that
was rendered
He spoke first of thegood eharac-
ter of the young man who was the
innocent victim of the assassin s bul
let. ushered instantly into eternity by
a well aimed shot fired by a deliber-
ate murderer, after, well laid plan
He showed conelusivelv how the Grim
inal in letter to his brother was con-
scious of what he had done, even to
naming the exact distance he was
away from the young man he killed.
While Rev. Greenfield did not openly
attack the Jurors, he did say that the
verdict did not express the sentiment
of Elko county. nor had he seen one
man in that couty, aside from the ]u-
rors who favored the verdict cit
is said he. ga mystery, and can be
accounted for in no other way than
tndt IHP Jury ulU UOI uHdtistdhd tHt
law for the law and evidence was
sufficient for conviction. Rev.
Greenfield stated that the court clear
ly outlined the law and the prosecu
tion, emphacized it. "OUR INFER
JURORS WERE NOT INTELLEC-
TUALLY QUALIFIED TO RECEIVE
IT." he said. Rev. Greenfield read
the law including in the instructions
to the jury as follows: Temporary
insanity produced Immediately by
intoxication does not destroy respoa-
sibility, where the patient when sane
and responsible made himself volun
tarily intoxicated. The jury. in spite
of this, gave more than counsel asked
for or the prisoner expected.
Dwyer's life was reviewed in de-
TAIL showing that not only he him
self had fallen a victim to bad habits
many years ago. but had himself be-
come destroyer of men. The jnry
shifted the responsibility upon Sheriff
Murphy of Lander county. He was
the state's witness. and when he
testified that Dwyer was insane he
exposed venemous nature. No one
can prove that Murphy was not
bought, but there was lots of money
passing hands at that time. But to
any reasonable jury what did Muir
phys testimony amount tot What
was its significance in this casef 1t
was simply his testimony concerning
strange acts and conducts after a
murder had been committed. He
thought some one was going to poison
him: he was afraid of the dark; he
would talk to himself hear strange
noises and walk him cell. The speaker
showed in a few well chosen words
how Shakespeare, the greatest student
of human nature the world has ever
known, gives these same strange ac-
tions to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
in the murder of Duncan Why
shouldn't he staref Who wouldn Z,
after committing such foul crimes
The stand taken by the pulpit and
press in favor of law and order and
against lynching for the punishment
of crime is highly commendable, but
it is time they make their voices heard
in cry for deeency.
He scored Nevada as being the last
state to take up matters of reform,
stating that two.thirds of the United
States and 40,000,o00 of her popula-
tion were in prohibition territory.
Deceney has so planted herself in
other portions of our fair land that
Nevada has become the dumping
ground for the worst element of SO
ciety, the world over. Driven from
other states, they come here, where
with our wide open policy they have
the full protection of the law. We
must have mental suasion for the man
who thinks, moral suasion for the man
who drinks, legal suasion for the sa
loon man; prison suasion for the
statute breaker.
Rev Greenfield argued at some
length on the evil effects of the open
saloon. attempting to prove that it
was the verdict of logic of economies,
social and political, that the saloon
must go.
With this preroration, delivered in
mastery style, the speaked con-
clnded his address.
In the past year ] have seen the
glory of art and architecture, from
the tops of the pyramids; / have seen
the sun set behind the trackless sands
of the Sahara, and from the Pynx,
where Demonsthenes stood, | have
seen the full moon rise from behind
the ruined but still standing columns
of the Pantheon, but the fairest Wis
ion my eyes ever looked upon was the
flag of my country in a foreign land
May her beauty ever be as bright as
the glowing SUM- -