El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-11


days ago naturally surprised
me-" said district attorney W. W
Bridgers. 1T is another instance Of
a jury being more Ionient with a de-
PENDANT than the defendant is dis
posed to be with himself After the
/ evidence had been adduced against
Zawadzki he offered to plead guilty if
7 would agree to a term of 10 years. I
refused to make the agreement because
regarded the case as one calling for
a, life sentence or at least q long term
of years. The defendant, in his vol
Untary statement made at a time when
he was labOring under the pangs of
remOrse, stated that he had killed Mrs.
Grant, a woman of 81 years of age
because he was afraid she was going
to have him arrested for breaking into
her house. Mrs Grant, before her
death, made a dying statement in
which she said that ZaWadzki had de-
Hberately shot her in the back The
jury brought in a verdict of five years
The trouble in this case seems to have
been that the jury was not guided by
the evidence, but was influenced by a
feeling that there must have been
something in the case that the Jury did
not know about or sympathy for the
defendant This is a common fault
with the jury system, as I see it It
frequently happens that jurieS decide
cases against the evidence and not
upon it. There was nothing in the
Zawadzki case that the jury did not
know about. The evidence was all to
the one point that Mrs. Grant came
home about 10 o'clock at night and
found Zawadzh in her house She
was alone. She at first, it seems de-
cIded 10 let Zawadzki remain for the
night but thinking the matter over,
decided to offer to take him to Clint
in her buggy. Fearing that she was
gong to have him arrested, zawadzki
walked around behind the buggy and
shot her IN the back. He then carried
her into the house, took her horse and
buggy and came to FL PasO. Mrs.
Grant lay alone, suffering from a NOR
tai wound, till 9 or 10 o'clock the fol-
lowing morning This case reminds
OF similar miscarriage of justice
which recently occurred in Dallas. The
defendant had killed his wife in cold
blood, and the evidence against him
was so damaging, in the judgment of
his attorneys, that they offered to
plead guilty and accept a life sentence
in the penitentiary The district at
tOrney refused to make the agreement
because he believed the defendant |
ought to be hanged and that the jury
would assess the death penalty The
jury brought in a verdict of three years
are but another illustration of the old
adage that you can never tell what J
KIND OF man woman will marry,
what the result of an election viii be, /
be-"
I notice that London dispatch /
says the English are eating the Eng
lish sparrOws in solution of high cost /
of living" said F.. E. Sawyer, auditor I
of the city schools. Americans have /
been eating English sparrOws since L !
can remember, although people in this !
part of the country appear not to 4
know that they are good food.
There is more meat on an English /
sparrow in proportion to its size than 1
on any other bird I have ever seen.
with the exception of the quail and /
the meat is splendid in taste. It is /
better than the plOver. the jacksnfpe 1
and the kildee that are eaten in this 7
part of the country.
Twenty five years ago the reed bird 4
was considered n very tOothsOme del i
icacy throughout the east and reed |
birds appeared on all bills of fare. but
the order was always filled with Eng
lish sDarrOws. People then-I don't (
Know If they do nOw-made a business
or catching these birds for the market I
They set trap made of netting be-
meath tree in which the birds roasted
at night, when the birds went to rOOst, /
would spring the trap and catch all
the birds in the net Then, the next /
day they could climb up through the
net and gather the birds for market.
There is more meat on an English
sparrow than you would think They
can be shot with Il or / { shot, but any
thing bigger will tear them to pieces.
They have fewer feathers than any bird
[ know of in proportion to their size
and there is considerable meat on them
when they are dressed.
These English sparroWs are fight
ing birds and viii drive all other birds
cut Of q community where they appear,
except pigeons. They seem not to be
able to whip out the pigeons. So their
attacks upon the fruit trees and flow
ers is not their only work of des truc-
ton and demolition; they drive all
the other birds away"
\ X
NO, Roy Barnum was not selected o.
as interlocutOr for the Elks' Ministries
because he is the best looking man in
the lodge" said Clyde F. Holmes, ex-
allied ruler with something Of a show
Of Indignation. 1T is true that Roy
has beautiful gray hair and a hand
some physique, but there are other men
in the lodge who are just as handsome.
There is Max Miller, for instance; no
body will deny that he is handsome.
but we had to have him for one Of
the end men; then there is Charlie
Armstrong. We had to have him also
on the end. These are only two, but