Show THE VERDICT it was a good thing for howard 0 spencer that it was not judge judd who tried forhia for hia lifchez certainly would have been a doomed man now As it was however liis case was entrusted to twelve honest levelheaded level headed men and hey in alie face of a charge that did almost everything but tell hem plain out to bring in a verdict of guilty did the only juit thing any body of men could do in the face of tha evidence adduced let spencer free we have taken great care to publish the account of the trial in full as it was a case in which everybody in the territory was interested te we have also taken particular care to attach the insulting remarks of judge judd addressed to the jury alien aliey had rendered their verdict to the C urt we do this that alie community may know the brilliant judicial benius of the individual who wears the ermine of this end of the first district what right had judge judd to give vent to such insinuations what right had he to say that it was a case of murder when the judges of the case had after weighing the evidence through an anxious nights deliberation decided that it was not if judges because they have a position on the bench are to say what shall be the verdict in auch important cases as these what necessity is them to go through the tedious process of paneling em juries and waiting hour after hour for their verdict the prosecution and defense in this case spent the whole of the first and half of ahe second day in securing twelve men to try the case when they had done so they sc cured a jury who were possessed of no bias then what shall he said in justification of the remade of judge judd no one denies the fact that he had a perfect right to think what he liked in relation to the merits of the case but the community denies that he had any right whatever to give utterance to those thoughts in liis official capacity and almost before the verdict had been rendered |