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Tin* prisoners confined in tlv jail at II ivilah, ,T. \V. ^MTTii, W. A. Poi n i it an 1 ;i Me . ran madttheir escape nn tin* night lt;r Sunday last. '1 her were all guiltv of atrodons crimes. Smith committed ao »mid blooded and unprovoked murder. in tlii- vicinity, oil the* lytli df May last shooting GroRor. Hdwaud while at Work ill his h id Doroium y was a bad character utid had taken him-. It out of the county about three year?*.ago to avoid the const -pi* noes of an assault to commit murder in stabbing a Mlt; xiean and Chinaman. The Mexican was charged with mm] liei-ty in the poisoning Case that took place in Tehaehepi wherein Constable Mini t u 1 st hi- bfe in a'** mpt ing to arrest the principal perpetrator. No one is tin least nrprised at this result, but the contrary would have been the case had they bet n kept securely, have hud a fail'trial in the interest of justice and been made to puffer the punishment duM th-*ir crimes, llavilah is probably no worse than other mining camps, but it is wa ll-known there are always demoralizing influences at work in such a place that unlit it for aseut of justice. It is in tlmse places dun adventurers and bad characters of all iiuC “most do congregate.” There is always to l lt;found the warmest and most outspoken sympathy for crime, inor or lessdemonstrative in proportion to its atrocity, and the incarcerated villain is alwavs certain that no effort or opportunity will be neglected to lt;xtend him assistance from the outride. Smith doubtless felt just as certain of going unpunished as if lie had committed nocrime. Even had lie not found it convenient to bre akjail he had good reason to believe the machinery ofthe law would not he brought to bear effectively against him.rnuuestionablv, despite the influences and ag« neies
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Bakersfield Kern County Weekly Courier
Bakersfield, California, US
Sat, Dec 06, 1873
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David D.
UT, USA 03 May 2018
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