Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-05-08

fairness and discernment. He has
/ the keen sense of justice, and nc mar
is SO poor, and none so rich ana
powerful, as to get from him eithe,
the more or less than the equities Of
his case, measured by law, entitle him
to have. He is of big mind and heart;
genuine and sincere; he is of thai
quality and fiber of which judges
should be made. Freely we pay him
the compliment that he is the kin
of a man and lawyer this circuit
needs on the bench.-Ziebach Count;
News.
Two boys were attending school IL
adjoining rooms in the city of Water.
town, this state, in the early COS.
Their home environments We're de.
ferent and their impulses were the
direct antithesis of each other. Ones
sixth special sense (siprituaU had
been cast by providence in a minor.
! Twenty years elapsed: the boys
have now become grown men. A few
months since they faced each other
at the bar Of justice-the boy whose
impulses were upward, was sitting on
the bench as a circuit judge, while
his schoolmate, whose Impulses were
downward, now stood before him as
criminal awaiting sentence to the
penitentiary.
This cen was enacted in the court
room at Webster. The criminal had
been convicted of carrying dynamite.
The maximum statutory penalty for
this offense is eight years. When
asked if he had anything to say why
the maximum penalty should not be
given him, the criminal stepped for
ward, laid his head on his hands on
the ~jurist's bench and with the tears
streaming down his face, he said:
tiary; it would break my old parents
hearts. You knew me as a boy at
Watertown; have pity on me. Give
me a chance; I'll do better"
The judge was deeply moved. After
a moments reflection he said: Eyes:
we were schoolmates, and I am sorry
for you. I will, therefore, give you
only six months in jail and not send
you to the penitentiary. During your
confinement in jail, I will look for a
good job for you; and | want you to
promise me that when you get out
you will be a nan"
81 will; God witness it," said the
penitent wretch.
He was SEM to Jail. In two months
he broke out and fed. At this writ
ing he is still a fugitive from justice.
The maximum penalty for this second
DEMONSTRATING jail-is ten years.
lie may get it.
But the Judge! All! yes; the judge
How our suspense grows! We are
almost tempted to jump over a few
Zines so that our eyes may more
quickly catch his name-Cyrus Clay
Carpenter, of the twelfth circuit, who
upon request, was temporarily occu-
plying Judge McNulty's bench in the
fifth. And the criminal? We have
said enough. The Day county rec
ords bear his name.
Judge Carpenter was born January
IS, 1878, at Fort Dodge, Iowa, that
grand old town with which we all in
stinctively link the name of Senator
Jonathan P. Dolliver. He has never
been terrified by reason of the date
of his birth-the 18th. Just what his
parents may have thought about it, is
another proposition. His marriage
we'll let's wait and see.
He attended pubic school at Fort
Dodge, 1SS4-S7. Then his parents re-
moved with him to Watertown, S. D.,
at which place he also attended public
school, having for one of his teachers
the Hon. Doane Robinson's sister. She
is a grand woman. Recently at the
state capital, when she heard that her
old schoolboy, now a stern CD Judge
on the bench was in the city she sent
for him to come and see her. Their
meeting was very cordial and remin-
iscent.
Cyrus finally completed the gram
grades at WATERFOWL. About
that time his parents moved back to
Fort Dodge, and young Carpenter was
sent to Cornell college at, Mt. Vernon,
Ia, to complete his education. He.
stuck to it most faithfully for six
years.
In 1898, before he had completed
his college course, Cyrus got lone
some to return to his boyhood haunts
at Watertown or he may have gotten
a presentiment that he should return;