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Show One Friend. Salt Lake, Dec. 17, 1879. Editors Herald: Your article, "Exit Clemetahaw," in thiB morning's issue, I regard as untimely and unreasonably severe. I am no apologist for Mr. Clemetshaw; but have always thought that the motto, "Fair Play 's a Jewel," was an excellent one, and ia specially ap- j plicable in the present instance. You atate : "He (Clemetshaw) has on several sev-eral occasions appeared as a defendant defend-ant in suits brought against him of a criminal Dature," etc. Now, Mr. Editor, this is faUe. It is truo, he was arrested for burglarizing burglar-izing tbe safe of John Outler; but was fully and honorably exonerated and acquitted of theoharge.alter a search' ing examination before Justice Pyper. Ab to tho otber case you refer to that ol "robbing a trunk of an apprentice" he wae, I am informed, never arrested therefor; and the only arrest of the unfortunate fellow wa3 that by Culler, which was regarded, by discreet and impartial gentlemen, as unwarranted and tinctured with the vexatioue. I bave to day received a lelter from Mr. ClemetBbaw, the following extract from which I make: ' I will state to yuu my rtinODS for my seemingly strange conduct: First, it is urgently necessary that I be in England by New Year's to look after my property, willed me by my deceased father." He then refers to some security I spoke to him about anJ concludes, , "Fiiilure on my part meant a compromise between you and Snail; or in ether worda, you would have taken my business and given it to a oheat and a fraud." "I have gone to England," he saye, "without acquainting you; yet do not Buppose for one momont I have abandoned aban-doned you." He further states that, lie will return to this city within a year. Domettio troubles, it is also apparent from hia letter, had much to do with distracting hia mind and interrupting in-terrupting his business. I I do net sanotioa the kiokiug of a man because be'a down, but would rather believe in the divinity of our humanity than to encourage misanthropy, misan-thropy, or lend my aid to crush the humblest or most erring being on God's footstool. Respectfully, John Beers. While it ia well for Mr. Beers to defend Clemetshaw, and while space 19 given for a panygoric on tbat individual, indi-vidual, it would be well for the writer of the above communication to be sure he is just and right before be accuses ac-cuses otheis of injustice and wrong. Clemetshaw was arrested and tried before Justice Pyper on a charge of breaking into and robbing the trunk of one of bis apprentices, while that appreotica wna at Ogden on a holiday : out. |