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Show this in the interest of justice and at their own expense. The railway saved sav-ed its property the excursionists saved his life. They are each and both of them entitled to the reward which humanity hu-manity knows it owes. Assistant District Dis-trict Attorney Critchlow is at least entitled en-titled to public gratitude. Kiley will sentenced tomorrow. THE ATTORNETm Assistant Critchlow Lays Down a Tew Hard Tacts on the Duty of Complainants. NO jfOBE IDLE OAJOLEEY. Eiley the Train Wrecker is Found Guilty ' and Will Go Up For Ee-fresbments, Ee-fresbments, Ass'stant District Attorney Critchlow, who is so elliciently representing his principal dining the absence of the latter lat-ter at the bedside of a prostrated son, has given it out in cold and clammy numbers that ho will not tolerate ca jolery or trilling in tlio realms of justice. jus-tice. This commendable manifesto was brought forth as an issue from certain things that have been enacted behind the curtains since Goldberg and Friedman Fried-man were placed upon trial. On the charge of embezzlement tlioao aristocratic aristo-cratic adventurers were acquitted. The result was through no fault of the assistant as-sistant district attorney. His line of attack was well taken and his arsenal was in its usual prime condition. Tho fault was with the ammunition. ammuni-tion. Sheriff Hurt had gone to personal as well as territorial expense in the capture of these wary imposters, und recovered not only the hawks but the goods with which they are charged by Simons and a half do.en others. Simons is too mellow for justice. Ho is not too mellow for mammon. When ho was touched by the pathos of a weeping wife, the eoyish indifference of a playful play-ful babe, ho started to get up a petition to the prosecution that tho men against whom ho hud originally preferred charges might be discharged. Ho went to Sheriff Burt for his approving autograph, auto-graph, but like tho bald headed letter it never came. "Now," says Assistant Critchlow, "I propose to set an example on which the future generation may rely. The complaining com-plaining witness not only got his wares and his goods, but an assignment was made to him. Funny proceeding for a complaining witness, was it uot? Ho saw the defendants acquitted. Another piece of eccentric legerdcrmain. Now, I am hero in the interest of tho people and to espouso the principles of justice, no niattor whose battlements they may fall upon. I don't propose that the acrobatic complainant shall make a pliant tool of this court, nor will I submit sub-mit to such abuses as have been resorted resort-ed to in thi case. Simons and the rest of them have sworn that Goldberg and Friedman havo bunkoed them and having brought this court into the matter, mat-ter, without speaking for his honor, I say that this part of it proposes to make them do their duty to justice or put up in legal tender for tho annoyance to which it has been subjected. Neither Mr. Simons or any ono elso cau trille with tlio wheels of this machino." Tho gentleman is eminently correct and his position and will be ratified by every law-abiding citizen. What the jury would have been wise in do'ug was to tax the cost to the witnesses who sent Sheriff Burt on the expensive expedition; ex-pedition; The Train Wrecker. Charles Riley the train wrecker has been convicted. Ho now treads with anxious pace tho felon's cell. His sentence sen-tence will be pronounced at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. To the jury, the assistant district attorney, to Sheriff Hurt and to Marshal Young the public says: "Well done, thou good and faith-ful faith-ful I" The case was ono of the most abstruse that hus ever been given to tho authorities. There was nothing but a circumstance on which to hinge their charge. Riley had been expelled from a private train and "promised" that it would breed destruction if not death. That both were not in the sequel was no fault of his. Ho carefully care-fully plotted the tragedy. At night when three hundred excursionists were bowling back from their sally carnival at tho beach, the vigilant engineer and fireman found an obstruction on tho track. It was just in time to savo tho train from demolition; tho laughing freight from death. No fertile imagination imagin-ation is required to depict the spectaelo that might have ensued the sudden transformation from tho carnival to tho grave. Jt was, however, a failure. There is nothing unique in that, for tho world is swarmed with wrinkled failures. fail-ures. Never has an .incideut created profounder iudiguation than followed this. Mr. liarstow of the Wells-Fargo bank was in charge of the special, and took au active part in the prosecution of tho fiend who, for tho gratification of a groundless grievance would have plunged three hundred lives into eternity. eter-nity. The court itsolf appreciates the situation. There is no doubt as to the man who invented tho startling plot. In the face of this the full, round penalty pen-alty prescribed by the law would bo judicial clemency. As to the officers who well two men ever did more skillful work than did Marshal Young and Sheriff Burt. For a do.en days and nights thev worked upon the circumstantial clew 'and finally final-ly tilted the imprint to the rugged shoo of tho perpetrator. They " did |