The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-25
ATTORNEY WOULD HAVEQ
 FlEGE LEAVE THE CITY
BELIEVES THAT HE IS NOT CRiMl- NALLY GUILTY, AND THAT HE MAY BE ESTABLISHED HERE
 OTHERWISE.

Sentinel-Record:-
 In my practice of law l have mlda
 it a rule to avoid trying my cases | through the newspapers The reasons | for this are too apparent to need com ment IL is enough 10 say that every man charged or attempted to ha charged with a crime is entitled to
 fair and unbiased hearing before jury, and the state is entitled tO
 exactly the same thing Since the
 state means all the people surely all
 the people can afford - he fair with one individual.
 In the case of K, Feige charged with manslaughter for suggesting and prescribing a fast without due eau ticn and circumspection,' and there. by causing the death of four differ ent persons by alleged starvation" ] have decided to say a few words fer publication And do this for the req son that your paper has conducted a campaign of publicity on behalf of the
 state In what l have to say in this case neither approve nor condemn the method of treating disease adv cated by this defendant It is my duty
 and my duty only to advocate his legal rights in reference to the charges against him. and | have no criticism to offer to any one Who differs from his views.
 have represented .im in the courts and shall continue to do SO Some of my friends have criticised me fer this, but | have never worried about
 criticism in the discharge of my duty
 to a client Every person conversant
 of the law and facts in his case have talked to express great doubts as to
 whether this man is guilty of any pub.
 lie offense or not
 This doubt being so universally in
 the public mind it must have gotten 10 the officers On last Sunday or
 Saturday April 20 or 2l. an officer
 represented to me that he understood
 no one here wanted to send Feige to
 the penitenuary. and that nc one be-
 lieved he would finally be convicted,
 and that if he would agree to wind up
 his affairs and leave Hot Springs all
 f the cases against him would be dis
 posed of in way to let him go Un-
 molested.
 Relying upon this representation
 and believing that it was genuine. I
 took it up with him. At first he was disposed to refuse any such offer, but atfer going over the whole affair and giving him my views as to the effect upon him, his family and his prob
 able usefulness in the future, he de-
 cided 10 make what he termed "an , honorable peace"
 then tock the matter up with the prosecuting attorney and his deputy
 and the court They seemed to think
 favorably of the matter tut l learned , that preyiou 10 my taking the mat ter up with them they had apparently not authorized any one 10 carry the 1 proposition to me. Yet pers nally none of them seemed to offer any very decided opposition to the plan. I have never been able to get a refusal or consent from the ficers. Up to this
 time, however Feige was permitted | to pay guard 10 go with him. but
 immediately after he had agreed to comply with what he considered an
 offer for an honorable peace" he was put into jail in default of his being unable to make bcnds aggregatiug $lO,00o
 Previous 10 these indictments the defendant had been able to make bonds assrcgating $22,Oo0. $200Oo of which were fixed by Dr. J. B Shaw, as coroner
 The people who signed these bonds, have been informed. were subjected
 10 very severe criticism, and now re-
 fuse to make his bond of Sl0,000. sc the defendant is in jail charged with starving people to death. I think the b-nd is excessive and that 1t should be reduced, but the court thinks differently, and he is just as honest n that beliefe as I am in mine.
 The purpose of this communication is this: Since there seems to be a
 doubt in eyerybody's, mind as to whether this man has committed any crime. and certainly the indictments