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Show NOTORIOUS LAWYER 1 HILTDHJEARD FBOM I Man Who Represented Parrent, (he ( rook in Salt Lake, Rusy in Goldfield. CASTS CONTEMPTIBLE SLUR (IN WITNESS FOR STATE Tells Court Anonymous Letter Threatening Life of .ludge Was Sent hy Witness. Special to The Tribune. GOLDFIELD, Nev.. May 23. O N. Hilton whom his . W. W employers Btyle Judge Milton, in Goldfiefd, having recently arrived from Denver to take charge of the defense of the notorious Vincent St, John, indicted as a cou spirator to the murder of John Silva, has already succeeded' in kieking up a sensation. Hh firsl appearance in court occurred ihis morning, In making mak-ing application for bail tor St. John and the ol her alleged pkrties and ask ing for a separate tnaF for the alleged arch conspirator, Ilillon asserted l't.l conviction that a prominent witness for the pros,., il ion whom he failed to name was the author of Hie anonymous letter of May 5th, addressed to Judge Lan-gan, Lan-gan, in which the writer -warned tho court that if the 1 W. W. defendants I should be convicted and sentenced, their I gang would kill the Judge iik a dog. Hilton told Judge LnDgan that. the t threat was mailed with intent to preju-: preju-: due the jury against the anarchists on trial and he demanded such a judicial investigation as was ordered by Judge Wood in the Haywood case. The mat-1 mat-1 tor went over until next Tuesday morning. morn-ing. Sentence of Preston and Smith, found , guilty of the murder of Silva, was post poned until tomorrow afternoon when a motion for a new trial will he argued. ar-gued. This Hilton is the Denver law yoi who is alleged ,, have arrange! thfl confession of Parrent against Chief Sheets of Sail Lake. Although there is slill a bitter feud existing Between the sheriff's and constable's con-stable's offices in Goldfield the oitj is amply policed and Ihe sheriff is in the saddle. His authority is based upon the opinion of the iiisfrirl Alton. ev Governor Sparks who wired the sheriff of Nye county as io t h- possibility Oi bousing Bsmerajda county prisoners in the Nye county jail, received .-. reply staling that the Nye jails are full. Governor Gov-ernor Sparks is mUCh exercised over the unsatisfactory condition of IF1 Goldfield baatiles, stating that they are 1 a menace to the health of (he State. Vigorous preparations are making for I the pToseciit iop of J. 1 . flines. who, on thn night of March Slat in Goldneld, shot to death Count ( onstantin Podhor-sky, Podhor-sky, a Russian aD'l Foolish nobleman. The trial will open about the middle of June. Friends of Mines who will appear ap-pear as Irts counsel are his father-in1 law, Judge M. J Cochran, Senator Harry Har-ry Moorhouse, recently of California! and ex Distriel Attorney II. M. Hoyt, who is coming from Nome, Alaska. It. has developed that fount Podhorskv'a estate is worth onlv 8 few thousand dollars. dol-lars. He was reputed to be extremely wealthy. Since the burning of the ancestral an-cestral home in Russia the Tate Count's mother has lived in Poland and she. has never been told of her son's tragic death. |