The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-02-02
GUY BUSTER is TOLD
no FIND NEW HOME
LARGELY ATTENDED MEETING
OF CITIZENS or SALMON RE-
QUEST ACQUITTED MAN NOT
TO COME HERE TO STAY LONG.

QUEST ACQUITTED MAN NOT
TO COME HERE TO STAY LONG.
More than fifty of the substantial
and most influential citizens of Sal
mon met at the offices of w. {.
Smith last Friday evening to take ac-
hon to forestall and prevent threaten
I'd violence toward Guy Buster, who
had been acquitted the day before at
Shoshone for killing Henry Brown.
The laws delays had been invoked
Tor four years after murder, with a
trial and conviction at Salmon but
with new trial ordered by the su-
Dreme court; then with delay in the
second trial on the plea that the Dris-
oner was suffering from appendicitis;
then with an order of court reducing
the bail and finally, with all other
means of backing and filing exhaust
ed, a change of venue prayed for and
granted on which the case was taken
10 Shoshone. Buster had served
about two years in the penitentiary
when a new trial was ordered on er-
rors of the trial court in Salmon.
Meanwhile a good many people, not
including the large body of represen-
tative citizens who met in Salmon
last Friday night, began to forget all
about the foul murder of the old, un-
offending man whom Buster had shot
10 death in the public road.
CRIME MURDER MOST FOUL.
But these men remembered the
crime as a murder most foul. They
let II be known that the murderer is
not wanted in Salmon or Lemhi coun-
ty although under the forms of the
law he has been acquitted. The pur-
OT Sfo Tod hNy
Mr.. Smith after declaring that he
knew personally that his hearers
were all lawabiding citizens. 1T is
best that this young man" he said,
find some other place of residence
than in Salmon or Lemhi county"
The speaker expressed the feeling of
everybody Then Mr., Smith, w. H.
Shoup and Louis F. Ramey mere Sc
lected by the meeting to ask Free
Buster, the father of the acquitted
man. to come into the room, the faith
er to be requested to advise the son
to seek another place of residence.
The father was present in few min
utes. Mr. Smith frankly told him what
the meeting had done in requesting
yodng Buster to stay away. The
father was visibly affected.
"If this is the wish of these men
aged TO say.
well. you see, it is the request OF
all of u.s." replied the spokesman. and
every man in the room signitied the
same by the rising vote that was
called for.
Again the old man dissented to the
extent of intimating that although
the court had set young Buser free he
might not want to reside in Salmon
but that all his interests were here
and he would likely remove to his
mining claim down the river.
There was another rising vote tC
indicate the desire of the meeting
that young Buster as a resident oi
the county anywhere would be unde
sirable The father found it difficult
to select the words to express him
self at this point but managed to say
that he would inform his son of the
purpose of the meeting and took his
departure 1t was said that the fath
er met the son at Blackfoot the mex
day.
Although all the speakers both be
fore and after the coming of the ole
man declared their intention of do
ing all that should be undertaken
without breaking any law, but all de
plored the miscarriage of justice pal
pable in this case, showing conditions
that were disgraceful in the admins
tration of justice. A prisoner freet
by such methods was by everybod!
considered an undesirable citizen. Oh
this point one speaker said Buste
might be welcome in Shoshone bu
not in Salmon.
A. C. Cherry, a leading Salmon law
yer, made the principal address be
4. sWzrr ~ H. II, y 4
Mr.. cHERRY'S SPEECH.
we are here as lawabiding cit
zens, and in our efforts to mitigat
the evils arising from any miscarriag
of justice there may have been, we
ourselves, should not become viola
tors of the law. The lax ADMINISTERS
tion of the criminal law is a disgrac
TO our civilization This evil obtains
not only in our own country and state
but all over the land. In an articl
by Edward GoldbeCk. in the Sunda
Chicago Tribune of January 81. 1871
| find this statement,--'In 1885 tn
number of murders in the Unite
States was 1908; in 1904 il had il
creased to S4S2; the number of ex,
cutiOns in 1855 was los while in 190
it was 116.' In other words the ma
who takes the life of another is lii
ole one ume IN elSnly 10 SuHeT upO
the gallows for his crime.
The proper enforcement of sue
law depends upon four human agel
cies, the juuges, the prosecuting on
GERS, the juries and the public sent
ment If the judges and the pros
cutting officers perform their duty
a criminal trial. but the jury fails
its duty, there is a miscarriage of ju
tice; and if the courts and the jurit
perform their duty, but the judge
lacking, there is, likewise a misca
riage of justice; and if the courts an
y the Juries perform their duties ar
the prosecuting officers fail in the
devotion 10 the interests of the stat
there is also miscarriage Of justic
And | want to say further that ol
courts and their officers are almo
powerless 10 do justice unless the
is a healthy and uncompromising pu
lie sentiment behind the enforcemel
of the law.
"A sad state of affairs has come
in -, l. Il