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Show LM EXAMINER, STANDARD AND BLACKHAND. H' "rItli the district court still having H ) Under consideration the case of J. H. Martin, the judge of the court not hav- H j ln& passed sentence, the . morning ' Examiner comes out with two long editorials of fume and bluster in ex H ooe'ding bad taste, attempting lo Hi arouse prejudice, and make capital B J for 'itself out of a community mis-HJ mis-HJ fortune The editorial of this morn- ing is directed against the Standard I. and, is a truckling, lickspittle effort Hj v hiCh Avil! fool no 'one, not oven those Hj ! from; whom the paper, in its sneaking v methods, expects to draw largess be iiiy0,f aJect servility. The ulterior j tmrvlsplitinly disclosed. I We? regret that It Is necessary to 5 fspcAkof a contemporary In terms of 1 ' utmostcontempt, and yet the attitude j of theTExamlner this morning Is such j, as to . brand that paper as small, pusillanimous and tricky to the extent ex-tent of being utterly debased, and we cannot escape the duty of pointing out its unprincipled course. J The Examiner accuses the Standard " of defending blackhand and blackmail. 1 j In order that no one shall be deceived, j 1 by this misstatement, ' the Standard reproduces the editorial in which the ntaniiner found so much to condemn, id it will be found under tho heading r. H. Martin Found Guilty," follow-g follow-g this editorial. i The Examiner objects to the Standard Stand-ard saying that Martin, in his own I circle, must have been looked on as ; a person of good traits. "With the 1 cunning of a shyster, the Examiner tells of the evidence presented at the trial as to the man masquerading under un-der the name of Murray and of tho admissions of duplicity in family affairs. af-fairs. What have present disclo sures of that naturo to do with tho good opinion that did prevail? Tho Standard spoke in tho past tenso of tho man's Btanding among his friends. The Standard pointed out that Martin Mar-tin possessed all tho elements of suc- cess In life, and, had he been trucl I to hlmsolf, could havo gained hon- I orablo distinction. Perhaps this ia talking over the heads of tho Examiner Ex-aminer crow, who cannot comprehend anything above an expression such as, "Get this smoke from the old lady," or some other smart saying that marks tho author as a Bowery tough. The Standard, in making Its comments, com-ments, has qualified every statement bearing directly upon the case before the court, because to do otherwise would be to disregard the ethlcB which the law and common fairness demand shall bo exercised while justice is dealing with the liberty of a prisoner at bar. If the Examiner feels no such Bcruplcs, we regret that It is so far lost to the finer sensibilities that differentiate right from wrong. (From The Standard of Yesterday) J. H. MARTIN FOUND GUILTY. The verdict of the Jury in the J. H. Martin case seems to have been a compromise. The man is guilty of a most atrocious crime or ho is Innocent, Inno-cent, but the jury simply charged him with "assault with a deadly weapon with intent to do bodily harm." If Joseph Henry Martin shot David Da-vid Edwardsson tho night of November Novem-ber 9, he is tho man who has terror ized this community for two years or more with blackhand crimes and blackmail methods, and he deserves the severest punishment that the law prescribes; if ho Is not the perpetrator perpetra-tor of those outrages, then he should go free. Tho consensus of opinion in Ogden has been that Martin, in falling to fully explain how ho was shot, virtually vir-tually confossod guilt, and the great majority of the peoplo who have closely followed the trial have leaned to the opinion that the clutches of the law had been fastened on the right one, and yet, If called on to ! act as jurors, many would have hesitated hesi-tated on tho purely circumstantial evidence to' find Martin guilty. Today, if Martin could make a plausible statement as to who sjiot him and . produce a scintilla of corroborative cor-roborative evidence going to prove that he was not wounded by David Edwards, he might free himself from the stigma of guilt and escape a penitentiary pen-itentiary sentence. He is a most remarkable man. He Is bright, even clever, has plenty of. sefr-assurance and an iron nerve. From all accounts he retained tho friendship of all his acquaintances and was well liked. His family was devoted to him and at homo and within with-in his circle he must have been looked look-ed on as a person of good traits and one above doing unprovoked injury to friend or foe. What changed the current of his llfo. if ho Is the black-hand, black-hand, and caused lilm to go out to levy blackmail, Is yet to be disclosed. If ho thought, the ways of the outlaw out-law led to an easy road to wealth, he deceived himself. His offending Is within that groat list of wrongs known na money crimes offenses prompted by covet-ousn'ess; covet-ousn'ess; a dcslro to bo possessed i of, worldly goods and to win necessities necessi-ties and luxuries without the sweat of tho brow. Avarlco has led more than one man to disgrace and sorrow by prompting crimo as a means to obtaining wealth. Had Martin been a man of means when he camo to Ogden Og-den he would have rotained his respectability re-spectability nnd have been honored today as u citizen of worth, but ho had to struggle and, finally. If we accopt the verdict of tho jury that tried him, yielding to temptation, sought to acquiro money without giving giv-ing in return an equivalent in sorv-Ices. sorv-Ices. As a consequence, ho languishes languish-es In jail and his llttlo family is brought to tho verge of distress. Prosecuting Attornoy John C. Davis, In tho heat of argument, yesterday said that ho would punish "Martin as a warning to others and as a lesson to "his children and his children's children." Our sympathy goes out to tho wife and llttlo ones. Wo would shield tho babies from every pointed finger and never let them know tho fato that befell their father, if it were in our power. Tho sins of the father should not fnll upon the children, chil-dren, whoso future pathways are made sufficiently hard, by reason of the loss of a helping hand, without heaping upon them the obloquy of a father's misdeeds. The whole opisodo. from beginning to end, is a most impressive lesson In the folly, of any man resorting Jo crime In an effort to make his lot an easier one than his honest efforts might promise. "As a man sows, so shall ho reap.'' |