The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1921-03-26

Clara Smith Hamon has been ac-
Quilted of a charge Of numbering
Jake Hamon. In Reno last week a
Jury declared James Nevin guilty OF
manslaughter, its verdict being rem
dered upon facts surrounding the
killing Of Mrs. Eta Hanna in a Reno
apartment house. The Nevin trial
was probably the most important
one heard in the State Of Nevada for
many years.
In both the Nevin and Hamon case
a rough hided and rotten old roue re-
ceived his Just due. Hamon was
killed by a pistol held In the hand OF
his paramour, while Nevin's admitted
free love met her death, presumably
from q revolver over which she and
Nevin were struggling.
1t seems that the world will eve
desist from its countenancing of the
acts wherein lay the source of both
the Hamon and Nevin killings. In
fact, rather than express its disgust
in no uncertain terms Of such stand
ards Of morality. the world. repre-
sented by the little communities In
which the trials are held, idoiizes the
woman in the first affair, while men
still indirectly approve of the acts
Of Nevin by swearing to God that
Sim Nevin never killed that woman"
A thronged courtroom in the Hamon
Ease fought against conviction bitter
ly, along with the attorneys for the
defendant. When the verdict of not
guilty was rendered a cheer rocked
the walls Of the hall of justice. A
thronged courtroom watched the
progress of the Nevin case, but from
all accounts the crowd was against
the defendant.
In either case a life paid for the
debaucheries and Shiny morals of
men whose sole object in living was
salaciousness and seduction. Hamon.
without fear Of God and with no re-
spect for womankind, went to his
death violently and suddenly, a death
In the finding Of which he should
properly have nc sympathy. But the
woman who killed him deserves no
more. Although her lawyers plead
ed that she was "an innocent country
GIRL" her innocence. like that Of
every other country girl who allows
herself to be led into such a life, did
not last long and she became as
wanton as aid her seducer. Women
like her, while accorded every OPP
portunity to return to the level of re-
spectability II they display a desire
to do so. should never be placed upon
a pedestal the while they are made
the pet Of a sensation loving people
who think not at all Of the things
that brought about q morbid tragedy.
Such an example Is the most potent
encouragement Of like crimes.
Nevin, little better than the lowest
scum, that lives from the earnings Of
fallen women, gave up his life to
seeking an easy existence, financed
by the Hanna woman, In return for
which he gave the waning flames of
his already burned out being. The
woman herself gave no thought to
the doctrines Of decent, right living.
but lived on with this moral derelict
until their quarreling resulted In her
being sent to He'll yer a swift route
that permits Of no preparation. Nevin
will spend from one to ten years in
the pe~nitentiary, and 1t Is to be hoped
that he receives and does the limit.
sympathy is all very well in its place.
and proper sympathy with generosity
and compassion is n of the ingredi-
ents that makes up q world unchari-
table enough when a of all its
acts are made. But the sooner the
world begins to display its ~apprecia-
ton of the fact that men and wo-
men must be decent in order to live
happily, the better the world will be
of.-Eiko Independent.
UNSIGNED BILLS ARE