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NEVADA JOURNAL MAY 1, 1857 103
undoubtedly correct in law, yet the conviction [exists] that death of Stafford was the result of accident,
unaccompanied by any intent or malice on the part of Mr. Hays.
We perceive that a petition to the Governor for his pardon is already in circulation, and is being very
generally signed by our citizens. We sincerely hope that it will be successful. It is certainly one of the
most proper cases that has ever come to our notice, for the exercise of executive clemency. It is one of
those rare cases, in which the ends of justice will be more fully accomplished by pardon than by
punishment.
SENTENCED.—On Wednesday last, F. V. Moore, convicted of the murder of McClanahan, was
sentenced by Judge Searls, to be hung on the 19th of June. Of the large crowd who listened to the
sentence, Moore was apparently the most calm and unmoved. When asked if he had anything to say, he
spoke briefly and coolly of the necessity of his act, as one of self-defense, and of the prejudice which he
alledged [sic] to exist against him. His wife, who has clung to him womanly and faithfully during his
imprisonment and trials, was by his side as he received the sentence. We understand that his case will be
appealed to the Supreme Court.
PEACHES.—The peach crop in and about Nevada promises to be astonishingly large this season,
considering the infancy of the business. All the young trees which we have noticed in the city and
vicinity—and there are a great many of them—seem to be loaded down with fruit. In a year or two more,
this section of the mining region will be well supplied with both peaches and apples. We are convinced
that nearly every species of fruit which is grown in the Atlantic States can be cultivated in this vicinity
with success, and produced in large quantities.
ARRIVAL.—Our townsman, Hon. E. F. Burton, late Controller, returned to Nevada on Monday last,
his term of office having expired upon the acquittal of Mr. Whitman.
[New State Law against gambling outlaws Faro, Monte, Roulette, Lansquenet, Rouge et Noir, and
any banking game played with cards, dice or any device, whether played for money, checks, credit, or any
representation of value; heavy fines and jail sentences for persons running games, smaller ones for those
playing; District Attorneys to receive $100 for every conviction, to be collected from property of those
convicted. .
Since the sentence of Moore, so many threats have been made to fire the town, the citizens have put
on an extra police sufficiently strong to keep strict look out at all hours, and in every nook and corner of
the city. V. Van Hagan has been made captain—and much as we regret the threatening circumstances that
make such precautions necessary, we have but little fears that any attempt at incendiarism will be
successful. That Moore and [Gehr,] who is also now [in] jail awaiting trial, have confederates in the
vicinity who would stop at no crime, however atrocious, which might, even by a remote possibility, result
in their escape, there is no doubt. With these two and Myers, now in confinement for an attempt to burn
the town, our jail, we are inclined to believe, contains about as much villainy as usually finds its way into
so small a compass. It is proverbial, too, that the worst villains can scarcely get justice from the hands of
the law, which owing to the delays incident to its operations, and the interposition of their confederates
outside, working with secret and insidious means, is too often the case. And this, when the infliction has
frequently fallen on the same community, creates the necessity for vigilance committees, the people,
taking upon themselves to do that which the ministers of the law cannot do. But if our county authorities