Show THE CASE OP 0 JONES A communication in this issue from justice merkley markley of whiterocks should hould not be passed by without com merit ment justice meckley says the information published in last weeks papery per regarding simon jones jonea trouble with his squaw her father and other members of the family must have keen been secured ut at long range and that it was wag erroneous we do not presume to question justice Merk leys sincerity but we wonder if he had quite all the information himself that he should havo have had before he made the statement that the case was waa not of sufficient importance to justify a trial it certainly ju justified stifled a thorough investigation deputy sheriff bracken attempted to arrest jones and jones ran away bracken took two shots at hini him jones evidently tried to leave the country ile he was discovered at theodore a long distance from where bracken attempted to arrest him film ile he wag waa advised by mr murdock tant the best thing he could do would bo be to re turn turri lhome and give himself up to the authorities ile he did so BO lie he knew that if he did anything else Slie sheriff rift mcneill would be put to the necessity of hunting him up and locking him up if he was guilty of nothing why did he be run away As we said before justice Ifer merkley kley may not have had all the information he should have had As far as jones past record la is con corned we know nothing about that but when did it become the pro province ince or tho the duty of a ju justice tice of the peace to write out a certificate of dhar character acter for a man as justice merkley has done in this case how do dos does s he know that jones has done hotl ing since he has been in this country to justify an article like the one which appeared in this paper last week |