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Lincoln Comity.4tTpno the adjournment of Court m Lia- * coin County, ^ultc a (Wiing Iim jjtmb op with regard to nitirn iWe Judge | rea Bristol in bin charge tit tbe Grand Jory. gave in brief the in than wtint«.tamely staling the l»e*t way omt of the troa We. The turn *Indent mum of tbe court •mu «*n lu have tarra tirnbd, or partisan feriin bring *o «neg n hi m**r it tmf»' ibte. Two hundred or more indictment! wrnr found covering wne fifty-indtoidwnfe* two cans were tried u«l Rwtal riwigs of Vcsne* bad. May W the bills found, especially in wmc instance* aeie merely , based on soapiooa, or sneffirleat evidence , and in others competent tewtiorar. Some of these liiiU of indictment reached both jiHie*. While in move than one instance it' reached one skle onlj. The comiitwo of I affairs were such m that section aa to war* rant that not «w villtan, or ml bonded murderer should go unscathed.A nonpartisan independent vfcw nf the matter suggest*. that every man or a omen, staioud or tainted with crime • boa Id hare been treated in the erea of law with parfittt equality. and mfwum taken h bring them to joaticr. Instead of confining in the ~uanl house, certain p«rt»o», while KVW and Scnr-feck, fwramba Infer! at leisure, nil should bare bceu confined and tbe law made indexible to stem ju-tke. —**^ Governor Wallace has acteti in the matter accordto tbe beat light be pewsraard. and if he did bU mnai tha views of some, is scarcely was lfc*n paths pa another woo Id fine* done. The qtksboa at tbe session of the coort was jmtioe, ami the facta and tbe law coaid alone govern.One thing was demonstrated and that » that tbe military could be and. 2nd that few shoo id prevail, Indictments were tamed agaiastGen. Dodfeyand Peppia fcw tbe burning of Mcweesa Hoorn. Dolan and Canp beil fee the Chapman murder. Bills wen found against the McVab Murderer*. Tom , OJTottfenl for horse ateaJing. Quite a tin ; bar plead the Governor's pardon and wan ’ discharged. District Attorney . Bywerm would nut rafeaan “Kida** to turn fttatm evidence in the case of Dolan aad Campbell j and considering the character of tbe mm tbe action was right m the premenis. Ge* j Dudley took a change of stum* to Mm Am ; County. Frpptu, Dolan and Matthaww, tool I change of venae to Socorro County, ft i I thought that tbe feeling hi Lincoln wil , noietiy cooi down and thorfly cad. wkh fen i and order prevailing throughout the Ooua
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The Mesilla Valley Independent
Mesilla, New Mexico, US
Sat, May 10, 1879
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