News hit in Cheyenne that a jury in Deming had acquitted some accused of crimes during the Columbus raid. As noted yesterday, this wasn't the first trial, and in fact this one was remarkably late. Indeed, so late that a person really has to wonder about the justice involved in holding prisoners for six years before going to trial. And we learn from this article that these sixteen men had been tried and convicted previously, and then pardoned, and the rearrested on new charges. A pretty questionable set of events.
It was news in other venues as well.
The long delay may have worked in these prisoners favor as well as obviously evolving views on their role in the raid. Those tried rapidly were tried in the heat of the immediate events, which as we know included these men, received much less favorable results.
President Harding had spoken the day prior and that was front page news everywhere, including on the USS Arizona.
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