Show FAILED IN HIS DUTY judge 11 11 henderson made atell a telling point in his argument before tho the j jury ury in the craig case lie ho inquired what the prosecuting attorney was doing doine alwn v exit year years s frija fy ija 0 ago appropriated d extra F pay ak r for extra i it ark ho he asked why action was not then commence to restore to the city the money the proceedings of the council were published in full and the papers gave large head lines to the extra compensation tho the district attorney at tho the time was fully apprised of all the bacs did he then wink at tho the alleged infraction of tho the law and if he did was lie he not fa a party parly to if you answer that he know knew th the act to te be a crime then you make tho the district attorney equally as culpable as the councilmen I 1 I 1 if you reply he did not then recognize the extra pay as wrong then you evou have t the he judgment of the district attorney in support of the contention that mat tho the councilmen were free of criminal intent I 1 had halverson then in office as now even so much as cautioned the councilmen by sending them a communication muni cation declaring tho the act to be illegal the money would then have been returned to the city treasury and the practice condemned did halverson instruct them at that time that they doing wrong no and his ver very y silence could have bave been interpreted by the council and no doubt was so interpreted as a tacit approval of the appropriation did halverson fully conscious of a wrong remain silent hoping the wrong would fo be aggravated by a repetition and that the breach of the law could c eventually ventu ally servo serve him to advance his personal desires de sirca we do not to answer but wo we do agree with attorney henderson that the fail failure tiro to act in the past rejects no credit upon tile the man afian who Is now announcing him self through the sal blake Lake papers as a i reformer I 1 |