The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-31
DAY OF TRIAL OF
STANLEY IS SET
Newton Stanley and John Harris
are Brought Into Court to Make
Answer to Charges of
killing Followmen


in the Humboldt county district
court, and Judge Callahan set the
day Of trial of two cases of ma
jor Importance, as life and death
are involved; two cases in which
the defendants are charged with
violation of the statutes pertaining
to felony, and two misdemeanor
cases.
Newton Stanley, who has been
confined in the county Jail for the
past month for the killing of Bono
facio Yragui, on the afternoon of
Sunday, September IT, was brought
into court by Deputy Sheriff Null
Ter and seated within the enclosure
rallied off to keep lawyers and crimi-
mails separated from the good citi-
zens who comprise the audience.
When his name was called, young
Stanley and his attorney, Judge j..
A. Langwith, rose to their respec-
tive feet. Judge Callahan made it
quite clear to Stanley that he was
in court on the theory that his name
is Newton Stanley and the judge
warned him that if that name did
not apply to him it would be well
for him to make it known, there
and then, or, forever afterwards,
he would be enjoined from enter
ing disclaimer. Stanley, to the
surprise of at least one of the
auditors, promptly declared that
the name fitted him. Why, in the
name of common-sense, he did not
deny the allegation and defy the al
ligators, is not known. That, it
would seem, to one who knows
little about criminal jurisprudence,
would have been. an easy way for
Stanley to have added confusion
COMPOUNDED to the tragic episode in
which he filled one of the stellar
roles. But, absent-mindedly, prob
ably, or, mayhaps, an idealist with
an acute sense of honor. Newton
Stanley unhesitatingly acclaimed
himself to be the man that every
person, in any way connected with
the case, has all along suspicioned
him Of being. 1t may be, of course,
that Newton Stanley has no know
ledge of dual identities. He may
not know anything at all about the
characters-men who are good hus-
bands, excellent providers, splendid
church workers and never-failing at
tendants at prayer-meetings, when
constrained to stick around in the
burg in which they professionally or
commercially garner their money;
but who, the moment they get in
strange environs, by some strange
metamorphosis, are transformed in
to creatures who impulsively kick
up their heels and indulge in
frolics and pastimes not generally
approved of by brothers of ecclesi-
astical temperament and idiosyncra-
cies.
Having failed of availing himself
of the opportunity afforded him by
the Judge to escape being tried,
as Newton Stanley, on the charge
of numbering Bonofacio Yragui,
there was no alternative presented
his attorney, Judge Langwith and
he, perforce, entered for his client
a plea of not guilty.
That necessitated, quite naturally,
more talk and Judge Callahan,
thoroughly familiar with the fact,
set the hour and day for Newton
Stanley's trial at 10 o'clock, Tues
day morning, November ID.
John E. Harris was brought into
court to enter his plea to the
charge Of having. on the 18th day
of last August committed the crime
of murder in shooting and mortally
wounding Claude Silvers, in the
Central bar.
When Harris was arraigned TO
enter his plea to the charge, At
torney Gray Mashburn, of the Reno
law firm Of McCarren g. Mashburn,
who have been tentatively engaged
as counsel to defend Harris, told
Judge Callahan that it has not been
definitely determined which MEM
Der of the firm will devote personal
attention to the case and he was
not, at this time, sufficiently in
formed to intelligently answer for
Harris and for that reason he re-
quested that the court accede to
request for postponement,
which Judge Callahan complied