Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1914-09-25

time in jail or having to pay any
fine. These are the only three indict-
ments had in the District court dur.
ing siad time out of which no fine was
collected but the expense of which
had to be borne by the county and tax
payers which expenses included the
costs at the preliminary hearings, the
extra costs of the grand jury at the
! indictments and the extra costs of the
petit jury. and the extra cost of an
extra panel of petit jurors. together
with the fees of the many and
numerous witnesses. In justice to
my opponent, however, will say
that that at last said term of Dis
trict court there was collected a
$4,000 fine from Eunice Dahoot,
whom he defended in the justice court
on minor charge and was convicted
from which an appeal was taken and
after my opponent got to be county
attorney his own client plead guilty.
In municipal court three different
parties were arrested, and prosecuted
by him for breaking the game and fish
laws: State VS.. McCarrol, State VS..
Neitzel, and State VS.. Bengtson.
defended all three to jury and all
three were acquitted. or freed. One
| party IN said municipal court was al
! so tried for assault in third degree,
State VS.. Neitzel. / defended him
to jury and he was convicted and
sentenced to pay fine Of $65. 90
without costs. These last four cases
are all criminal cases tried in NUM-
cipal or justice courts to juries since
my opponent has been in Office, in all
four of which appeared on the
defense. He also prosecuted party
for assault and battery in munich
pal court, without jury, State VS..
Snider, who was defended by anoth-
er attorney, acquitted and freed.
The above shows that since my
opponent has been in Office he has
caused to be brought on for trial
seven criminal cases and no more,
in which the defendants were repre-
sented by attorneys from the time of
| the preliminary hearing until they
we're disposed Of, one of which was
dismissed and five tried to juries and
one before municipal Judge without
jury, out of which he got one convic-
ton and FIVE acquittals. Including
case dismissed Estate VS.. Dahl) be
got one conviction out of seven oil
percentage of IA 2-7 per cent
I won by him, five of which was
employed by defendants on defense
of and four of which | won and one
of which lost, making 80 per cent
won by me.
All statements written in this arti'
q Gle are facts and anyone interested II
same can easily ascertain it to b.
true by examining the records in th'
office of the clerk of District court Of
this county, and.thesofice of munich
: pal Judge of the City of Morris, AMI
the Justice Courts records in the City
of Morris, all of which records arr
open for inspection.
AS / said before, do not per on
ally care for newspaper publicity
but due to the unfairness of thu
purported editorials of the Hancock
Record referred to, and they have
not been corrected to date, by eth
er my opponent who could not hell
but realize that they were mislead
ing. and have not been corrected BY
the editor of said Hancock Recort
n who has several weeks ago been givel
: the facts, / therefore feel that i
would not only be unfair to my candi
dacy to leave said articles unan
. swered, but also unafir to my profes
sion and practice. and unfair to th'
voters. whose support ask, withou
giving them the actual true facts con
corning the issues made by said Han
cock Record.
Again, as in my announcement
thanking you for your large endorse
ment of two years ago for the Office
of county9attorney. and earnestly sol
letting the support and vote of my
many friends and voters Throughout
this county, and reiterating all in my
: announcement stated, and expecting
to see as manyg voters personally al
possible before election. beg to re-
main,
Yours very truly,
Thos. ]. Mangan
Dated this 23rd day of Sept, 1914