Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-02-08

The charges are based on an article
published in the Bisbee Review on
January 18th, OF which the following
Is copy:
THE STINK LEFT BEHIND
BY THE DOUGLAS SKUNK
"A disgusting spectacle causes 9
sick stomach. The excerment from
a skunk leaves a stink behind. A
combination OF such a spectacle and
such a stink was that exhibited in
the court Hoom at Tombstone last
week when one ]. Z. Van Eaton. his
face working with passion and his
voice trembling with eagerness and
hope. turned 70 a cold blooded muir
derer, with the life blood of two II
nocent victims scarcely dry on his
hands, and cried: Willie is the
same dear boy now as always-I
LOVE HIM
What strange love is this for q
man who. according to his own testi-
mony- Ne bad known for THREE
" AZ otGO~S
What strange love is this for a
man who according 10 his own testi
mony he believed was irresponsible
and should have been acquitted fo-
murder on a plea of insanity?
What strange love is this for
man. charged with the most heinous
crime in Cochise county, that caused
this eager witness to eXclaim: /
LOVE HIM. | LOVE HIM. while
the bereaved widow and orphans sat
with bowed heads and sorrowed
hearts within ten feet of his loath-
some face?
What strange love is this which
caused this skunk to crouch at the
swinging doors of the court room to
await the coming of the murderer
and grasp him by the hand, exclaim-
ing: Old boy Billy. be brave?
WAS It love for the boy who had
committed the horrible deed or was
'it SATISFACTION-that kind OF sat
isfacticR that comes 20 the snake as
III sinks its fangs into its victim;
that kind Of satisfaction as the villain
watches the dagger driven into the
heart OF his enemy by a weakling?
%. SUCH A SPECTACLE
- LOVE HIM. LOVE HIM
D LOVE HIM.
And the next moment breathing
hate against that great big-hearted.
honest man, who. while singing az
his work, was shot in the back
Wei might that big audience,
which crowded the court room at
Tombstone at a late hour on Satur>
day night, shudder as the district at
torney pictured this loathsome crea-
ture in all his hideousness. If the
skunk could see himself as the law
abiding. God fearing people of Co
chise county see him, he would cover
his body with its own slime. stink
away into some dark, foul and filthy
hole branded as a being too loath-
some TO hold communion with true
anu upilSnt NoE-
''Pfannkuche. the murderer. and
the skunk on the Douglas Dispatch
we're common enemies OF Asa T. Hoy.
One had the nerve that gives strength
to the hand Of the assassin; the other
had the foul heart to gloat over the
deed.
The article ponned by this ed:-
torial skunk the morning following
the horrible tragedy was al analogy
for the murderer All Douglas was
aroused az such a fragrant Haunting
Of indecency in their very faces. The
storm Of protest grew. The people
OF the smelter city gathered in groups
and condemned the writer and the
article until the manager of the pa
per was forced by public sentiment
on the following morning to write a
true and correct account OF the das-
tardly crime free from the venemous
excrement OF the editorial skunk.
! Thank Cod that the evidence Of
the skunk had no weight with the
jury.
"As one of them expressed 1t short
ly after the verdict Of guilty had been
rendered: We could not understand
how a man could form such an alb.
normal affection for another man,
when according to his own testimony
On the witness stand he TAD only
known him for THREE WEEKS in
iBisbee and only saw him occasion
ally as ne passed through tde busi-
ness office Of the Douglas Dispatch
on his way TO his work IL the back
room He said he did not associate
with him night and ne could net
understand how the defendant was
so dear to him.
This strange love TO which th=
skunk testified so vehemeHtly on the
witness stand, was born that night,
when with his ear pressed close to
the receiver Of the telephone. he
heard the account of how Pfannkucae
had slain the common enemy.
Turning to the typewriter at HIS
desk. with the bodies OF the two in.
Docent victims still warm, he began
then and there to lay the groundwork
for the defense. He counseled with
The brother from Texas; he helped