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privilege of bearing no part of the ex pense will certainly be novel.A Card from Mr. Carter.The subjoined card, noticed in Saturday’s issue, was handed in too late for publication entire that day, and is now published in full at the request of Mr. Carter, who, though a Democrat, says he is as ready to expose wrong-doing in his party as in any other party:Editok Journal: This morning, when I came to my office, 1 learned 1 that one Mrs. Lucinda Jenkins had i been arrested,charged with infanticide, , and on inquiring. I learned that she is ^ a widow with three children, and too poor to employ counsel. I went to the 1 jail, sought an interview with the 1 prisoner, and by her desire had just 1 began to hear her statement of the ( case, when two policemen entered and | demanded of me that I stop talking to ( the defendant, as they wanted her as a witness before the coroner. I insisted j on but live minutes to inform her of 1 her legal rights. At this. Marshal Eichoff entered the prison cell. Ho, with the two policemen, forced the prisoner into the private sitting-room ! of the jail, refused me, as her counsel, to be present, and after 12 minutes ‘ talk to her, they brought her out and started to the City Hail, as they said. lt;for her to appear before the coroner as ^ a witness to testify against herself. I again insisted on the privilege of talk- j ’ ing to the prisoner, when the marshalswore “by ” I should not speakto her. I then informed him of the 1 prisoner’s right to counsel, and that in r private, but if he would not let me speak to her in private I would speak to her in his company. 1 then said to 1 ' the prisoner, “Mrs. Jenkins, you don't ,. have to answer any questions put to ! you criminating yourself, unless you lt;want to.” At which Eichoff rushed at me, raised his ponderous cane over my 1 head, saying: “If you don’t shut up rtalking to her I will mash your G — d— skull, and I can do it d— quick, too; and I am going to stop these G— d—lawyers coming to the jail talking j to the prisoners, and getting them to swear to d— lies.”I have been in the wild west where cowboy rule was lnw, but if such proceedings as this are to be tolerated in a 1 grand and noble city such as Muscatine, and be passed by unnoticed, then we have no guarantee of our liberties.If such acts are perpetrated through lt;willful meanness, turn the perpetrator ,' out of office, since by ignorance they lt;are not tit to fill any place of trust where the protection of our citizens is depending. This is not written bv me through motives of revenge, but that it may come to the knowledge of our city authorities, that they may vindicate ( the honor of our city.R. W. Carter, Attorney.Muscatine, March 3.
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Muscatine Evening Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Mon, Mar 05, 1888
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Anne C.
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