The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-06-02
HIRED MAN SPEAKS ON BAD
LEY AND HUNTZBERY CASES

| have been asked to express the
Hired Mans opinion of the Bailey
case of last week. My opinion is worth
no more than any other mans and II
might be worth much less. The jury
said he was not guilty. went to At
torney Wallace and asked about the
case, lust in order to be able to write
a sensible paragraph. Wallace says
there was not sufficient evidence to
convict and of course there was moth
ing for the jury to do but to give MIR.
Bailey his deserved liberty. One man
has said to me that it was an easy
defense, since there was nothing to
it, and another man thinks there is
not another attorney in the state who
would have been able to clear the eli
ent. Thus it goes from opinion to
opinion but underneath all this curb
stone law and gospel, the jury report
clears the fellowtownsman. There is
nothing standing against the old man
who has stood out for law and order
and reform for 80 or 40 years and who
will still stand out on that side. Some
are condemning the county authori-
ties for pressing the case, but we can
not wink at such charges and pass
them by; the probe and light bulb
must be used no matter if a friend
gets in the way.
At last the Hired Man cannot close
his columns this week without meet
ing the strong demand of many to
mention the case of the young man
now in the county Jail without bail,
accused by some one of a most beast
" and british crime. OF course we
NtrIn he VA
do. The young man might be inno-
| cent enough. The Hired Man is not
one of these fellows who feels that
every man must be considered guilty
until he proves himself innocent
Then. besides, to accuse most men OF
this kind of crime and not be able
to prove it would mean that there
would be another kind of suit come
of it, and the defense would probably
be insanity at least insanity at the
time the trigger was pulled. 1t is ONT
of those mysterious cases. where Ell
ther male or female, may depart from
the strain of blood in other members
of the family and be no more like thu
family than the skunk is like the bird
of-paradise. 1t is a "stumper t.
medical science All else in the fam
? lily OF the OlSedSeu 1lllilu, VI eNSll III III
possessor of the diseased mind, ma,
, be good and pure and well balanced
) yet this one will fly off on this tan
gent and do insane and wicked thing:
$ You capnot tell what his jury will do
: he may be innocent. | am not one o
s these men who believes that the jur
{ system is bad and worthless, yet
| God can tell just what some of ther
| will do, He certainly has proven him
e self omniscient beyond compare.
{ is not with vindictiveness that tn
t commonwealth deprives certain one
{. of us of our liberty, but it is to safe
g guard Others of our fellow being
e This arrest may check the young ma
t in his downward course land saw
e worse deeds later. If he went on i
It his evil ways, the next thing we knee
d he might be smoking cigarettes an
getting those sallow sunken eyes wit
l. all that other infcriority that goe
f with cigarettes. Let us wait and Sc
:; what the jury will decide, but in tt
> meantime if there is no devil, ! aris
n to ask who it is doing his organize
l. business in our region?