The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-06-18

vice to the county commissioners, the
sheriff's Office and elsewhere and fell
down in the simplest Of cases was not
generally known, and the Minot dali
les were filled with what Nestos had
done or was about to do. ....
These newspaper accounts that ap-
peared from time to time were written
in the Office of Nestos, by Nestos, and
for Nestos, to cover up his many blum
ders. He didn't fool the people of Mi
not who would drop in at the court
house, now and then, and watch him
perform and he didn't fool the many
Jurors who attended court and who
were forced to listen to his blatant
braggadocio, and his voluble mouth
ings of inconsequential things.
His whole thought conferred on get
ing to the jury with his set speech.
The speech was so important to his
way of thinking that he forgot to try
his law suit and in many instances
wholly forgot to read his preliminary
records with enough care to draw
proper informations.
Time and time and time again we
have seen him floundering through his
cases only to be upset in the end by
an information that did not state a
public offense.
In one case he charged the crime
as committed thousand or more
years ago, and at his first term of
court out of some twenty odd informa-
tions filed not a single information
was good--all had to be amended
again and again. These mistakes he
publicly blamed on Mr.. Carroll, by
stating in court that he had not seen
the informations and thought that
Carroll had looked after them, when
as matter of fact the informations
were mostly all signed by him and
sworn to by him as States Attorney.
So that now Carroll is added to
judges, juries, and brilliant Minot
counsel as the causes for his failing
to deliver the goods.
1t is to laugh.
When the Staff murder case came
on for trial, the most important GRIM
inal case during his term, he again
shirked responsibility-he sent Car
roll, his assistant, and special prose-
cutor to try the case, while he, noble
exponent of virtue and the criminal
code, remained at home to try few
piggers, prostitutes, and petty thieves,
and had it not been for Palda in the
Staff case, Staff would have gone scott
free. AS it was he only got ten years
for the henious offense of wife murder.
When I. w. w. gangsters assaulted
Minot and it's citizens, Nestos-Oh,
yes, it was then found convenient for
Nestos to go-a-fishing.
And like Simple Simon,-all the
water he could find was in drinking
pail, but fish or no fish, he didn't in
this particular summer time, do any
thing but fish, while other officials
stood for principal, orderly govern
ment and respect for constituted au-
thority, with Carroll on the job to take
the blame if criticism came in the di-
rection of Nestos.
He boasts of the fact that he won
two appeals in the Supreme court, but
he carefully conceals the fact the de-
PENDANTS were not represented by
counsel at Bismarck and that the cases
went by default.
There were the Phillips case fol
prostitution, and the Butler-Ki'nbalI
cases for prize fighting, and the de.
PENDANTS attorneys did not appear in
the Supreme Court simply because
they knew that no matter what be.
came Of the cases there as matter
Of law that Nestos would never try
them after the lower court was re.
versed, simply because defendants at.
torney knew that Nestos could not pro-
duce sufficient facts to convict.
And the fact is that Nestos dismiss.
ed these cases and never attempted tc
try them after his great GU victory
on appeal.
But you, Mr.. Taxpayer, paid fol
this fruitless and silly appeal in or
der that your States Attorney might
have vindication when not opposed by
counsel.
Look up the report of these cases
in the Northwestern Reporter and you
will find that only the state appeared