Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-29
ARIZONA JUSTICE"

In the Superior Court of Cochse county. man charged with murder has been freed The history of the tragedy so communitys memory that the briefest possible equalization of the facts is ade quate draw moral
 Two men were killed and third wounded. In the face of these facts it seemed had been committed. It upon this hypothesis that trial was held There was no contraventon of the claim of the prosecuting attorney that the dead that their deaths were the of vioence and that in their demise the law took initiatory part In fact the manner of their deaths fragrant defiance of the law The law prohibits in theory the carrying of concealed weapons The met death from bull lets from a revolver. The weapon concealed. in mockery of the law up to the time 1t produced to do its death-deang work
 A Cochise county jury has exonnerated the who admits using the revolver. As the matter now stands he is purged of guilt in the principal indictment drawn against him and this indictment was the one which the authorities believed was most susceptible of proof He is completely restored in the of the law, to the same place in the community which he held previous to causing the deaths of and the wounding of the third.
 The memory of one of the dead men-by reason oi the jurys ye.dict-is inierentally attained The yer dict prooams through act of his indicating that he was armed he merlted death The verdict procaims that the law recognizes its agent in administering the death penalty the who carried a concealed weapon. The law endorses his action
 The second of the dead men had no connection what soeyer with the preliminary circumstances concerned in the tragedy He was innocent bystander at the scene His ruthless death is ignored in the verdict if this verdict be assumed to extent its force to his case In the findings in the trial just con cluded the prosecuting authorities they hesitate to bring other indictments into court because what they considered the strongest has failed If these indictments be dropped the will hold that the life of the second man killed measured in the scales of Cochse county justice yaueess Such would be the court appraisal Yet it is difficult believe that his loss did not impose burden of grief relatives and friends from whom his support and comfort withdrawn It seems incredible did represent economic value
 The recent trial at Tombstone assumes unusual i'm portanee because it staged at time when murmur ings are throughout Arizona about the supneness of justice in state when it comes to dealing with murder Whether these murmurings are justified is beside the Critics of Governor Hunt voice tho charge that leniency responsible for the cheaT appraisal on life in this State His failures 'c carry out the law relating to capital punishment arc brued broadcast
 As contribution the widespread discussion con corning justice in Arizona the recent trial at Tombstone will receive deserved prominence The jury which re turned the verdict will be nched in the memories the community in with individual opinion al to manner in which the urymen fulfilled their mission to justice The rulings Of the presiding judge VIII b passed in review The entire records of the vii be mperishabe long after the who caused the dea of two men and their wounding Of a third has gone t his final judgment