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Show COMMEND EDITOR TO COURT MERCY .4naaBaBMMBaBaBBaHBajBSBB Editor: of CaUfornia Is Con-victed Con-victed of Assault With a i Deadly Weapon on Fel-! Fel-! 'low Newspaper Man. EUREKA, ' CM.. Nov. . M. . JC Vautha was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon by a Jury last night In the Superior court. ' . Vaughn Is editor of the Callfornian, a weekly paper, and last March got Into a controTeriy -with the Evening Herald. He Is paralysed and the Herald referred to his infirmity in-firmity in one of Its article. Vaughn aent word that retraction must be made or the editor of the Herald must .right. A retraction not being made, he went ' .In a buggy to the Herald office and aaked to see the editor. ' Nllea O. Hyatt, the bnsineas manager of the Herald, came out nd Vaughn fired , three ahota at him, none ot which took ef- - fecC Vaughn ' waa arrested and charged with an aaeenlt with a deadly weapon with Intent to commit murder. When convicted,- , Vaughn was reoommended to the mercy of the court. . |