Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-11-23
HAUSER'S ADDRESS
A Plain, Straightforward Statement
Regarding Lane Case.

Following is the address made by
Deputy District Attorney Hauser, il
open court, last week, regarding the
Lane case and the failure of the CRANE
jury to indict:
If the Court please in this matter
of the State against Albert R. Lane
charged with murder, | wish to say
to the Court at this time that, if there
has been any miscarriage of justice,
if the State has been improperly rep
resented on my shoulders alone rests
the blame. and on nobody else. | wish
TO say in open court that | distinctly
shoulder it, | assure your Honor that
| am ready to assume all responsible
ity in this case.
Now ask that your Honor indulge
me a few monutes to do what | think,
is proper. what this Grand Jury de.
serves and are entitled to, as well as to
explain to your Honor why | say that
if there has been miscarriage of JUS
tice, alone am to blame, not Mr..
Lothrop and not the Grand jury.
AS to the facts in this case: Early
in the morning of the 2lst OF last
month | was informed by the Sheriff
that killing had occurred in Thomp-
son in drunken row which occurred
in saloon. | asked if he, the Sheriff.
had been notified officially, and ! think
that he said mo" | asked if an in
quest had been held, and he said no,
but | think that he said that the Coro-
ner, the Justice of the Peace acting as
Coroner, had telephoned me to go
down. And with Mr.. Pohe, deputy
of Mr. RandalPs | went down there,
and found this young man, Silva, ly-
ing in bed dead, and the young man
Lane, in the custody of the officers,
and twenty or thirty people laboring
under the excitement of the tragedy;
all knowing something about the trag-
edy, and, at that time none OF them
actually knowing anything about IT.
! Immediately had the Coroner inn
PANEL jury, and we took the testi-
mony of Charles Styver and Charles
Milne, which was enough to arrive at
the death of Silva, to give the particu-
lars. | did not at any time during the
investigation of this matter say any
thing to the young man, except to eau
ton him, if he had any remarks to
make about the case to say that to
his counsel
The first thing | did when ] went
down there was to suggest that he get
counsel. Beyond that have had moth
ing to say to Albert Lane about this
case
Now, il your Honor will allow me to
go into the details of the affair,
will relate what | found
| talked with fifteen or twenty men |
at the time of the Coroner's inquest
everyone OF them intelligent, and be
lieve honest citizens. Some of them had
been mixed up in the affair in the
had ben mixed up with the affair in the
saloon, and they regretted ii as bitter
" as a man is able to regret an AFFAIR."
of this kind. | found the witnesses
named were the only two witnesses to
the actual stabbing When they made
their statements before the Coroners
jury | Immediately had DR.. Leavitt,
whom had secured to go down there
and take charge of the body with the
Coroner, and instructed him to make
a careful autopsy OF the body OF Frank
Silva to discover how the knife had
entered the body. the direction of the
wound and the injury involved.
! have talked with sixteen witnesses,
whose names were put on the sub
pocna, and who were brought before
the Grand Jury, and | talked with
number of other people in regard to
this case, men who were around there,
men of the very best of reputation
when we had the examina ton and held
the preliminary examination. the wit
nesses and the public were excluded
from the courtroom. The witnesses
were brought into the room and put
under the rule of the Court and care
fully instructed. | have carefully
watched this case and believe that the
witnesses have obeyed the instructions
of the Court not to converse with each
other. Knowing that counsel for the
defense would have the right to sub
poena these witnesses and talk with
them, | did instruct them that they
could talk with Moore & Miller, who
were the attorneys for the defense. |
instructed the witnesses to that effect.
The testimony of Milne and Slower,
Hopkins and McQuarry, the four
principal witnesses for the State, un-
contradicted, would beyond the slight
est question of doubt. convict this