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Show ;0; n 1 "SNEDDON' PL'EAD3"'(?UILTY. ' ' n ... I .1, t . n ' Whell' III -our'tikut' oT 'Aug. 31st. wl ''Wld""1 " '"' "1 '"r , ft ! i"Thwo in coinrtdrahlrt .criticism cm ihe,,9imty.UUrnex,,ln(,tJiij mattor & ; (ovurlpt Wuelt coiil ingencles vlt ;1U8ilVWll)'.ISl,W,lD the el-: el-: iienaT of trying buoU civten," 1 1 u it i.c iddn't expect that John M -torney (for ho ha said--so) vtmW ijof and fiurcs showing Ills sh'ori :( l)T?bTt5!u?J Tir5aT-r.m,,nrsttg; ana hi n'-rf-j "eairtju'tUat -ill tt tb Pop r- ho.ilduow e,vciUce who red 0 -J' Wflre)ii H c?ny 1 MMMMW-MMMMWM. IIUll 0 i that paper, Yo do not know whether " "or not Tie" sent a copy to tho Salt . J.nke Tribune, but rfupposo he did as vfe are ln7orincd,i that, tho ili)f;a.n Journal nnd tho Salt Lake Tribune aioMhlK'fnvorlte newspapers, He tells thu -public thnt the complaint com-plaint against Whltmerwaa made and filed April I, lSll 3 thnt Uie law.under which he drew tjie complaint was le-pealed le-pealed ., March 20th, 1011. but In extenuation, ex-tenuation, he' forgives hlmHHf by recounting re-counting that the new Jitw'wdrnwn to take the1 placa of the repealed law, did not take effect until ubottL tho Ulth or 20th ot May, 1911,' and that at the time of the preliminary examination exam-ination the old )aw was still In force and that after thu preliminary the Il'gnl ditties shifted onto tho dlstilct attorney. ' ' , Now' these fncts, tilkcnJln tibnnec-tloh tibnnec-tloh with tho fncts u6t iiieritldned by Sneddon', but which' we all "know1. tend to make the 'matter 'quite clear ae to whtie tho Maim; iestd for putting put-ting the lonnty to tho expense of tho Vhitiher tilal. Helo Is tho necessary deduction. When the county attorney drew up thnt Whltnier complaint tho lnw 1111 der which It was diawn had been io-pealed io-pealed by tho legislature. When the preliminary examination was held on April 11th, lOli, and tho defendant wns bound over at thif Instance of Mr. Sneddon to th district court, Mr Sneddon know, If he Is at all veined In the lnw, ns ho ought to be, that lief 01 e the defendant could be brought to trial at the next tfim of tho District Dis-trict court, which would bo In August, Au-gust, there would be no law in force under whph the defendant .could be lljed for the, offence,, chni;ged, In the complnlnt. Mr. Sneddon knew that the defendant had 'pleaded not guilty guil-ty and that the next term of the District Dis-trict comt would not nnd could not convene until 'August. Now; we are anxious to know why tho county attorney at-torney shifted niiy "legiil dlty,, onto on-to the district attorney, ontd the Dlstilct Dls-tilct coin t, or onto anybody ut nil In the matter Didn't ho have foresight enough to bee nnd to know that "time nndiitlile vvnlts iforiiio'iunn." Now am awy one knbU8.'lt1H 'ev-pl'UMve 'ev-pl'UMve t-A haVc'irhirgc"llo,cfy"ot iilfn lii vviitliig. ns iirois to ,rj((a 1Cnsn. especlall,- T,)htn.ff (h(oj 0,4,8,10 ,(aso to try, We relteinteiitlinb wo nieniit.iwhat w'e Kiild, aiid"ltiKlst'thnt nui question Was tlnlely '.ami In' tho Interest of economy," nutl "Id thg wef.nro of 'the Mxp.ijeiH, of ttiO county. . , We further siwgeHb thnt It comes very late, and has"the 'appearance df cowardice, for the conri'ty 'ntiai'hu, after having assisted tho dlstilct at-toinoy, at-toinoy, and given It out that there' wns a "saving clause" to "snueal" and (ittumpt throw It a;i ,pnto thv dlhtrlct attorney.' It Is, niuth better to taku one's medicine grncefuly n coijcliisliin we would advlso M). .Sneddon, also pur ronteinporai'y'to pur the "kibosh" whole It bolonc... nnd o would .further add for ths rount nttoiney's enllghtennWiiit: "Don't ,iiiukaucuHCH;mnka(In'H." |