Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1926 — Page 5

JUNE ’ 1926

FIGHTING EDITOR COMES TO CLIMAX OF G-YEAR FIGHT Magee to Go on Trial Tuesday on Manslaughter Charge. Copyright, 19 2(5. \EA Service LAS VEGAS, N. M., June 11.— Carl Magee, fighting editor who doesn't know what it is to be in a battle unless it is against tremendous odds, has reached the climax of his colorful, heroic career. He is going on trial Tuesday for manslaughter as a result of a killing that came by a tragis stroke of misfortune just when his long series of fights was being crowned with success. Magee is accused of killing John B. Lassiter on Aug. 22, 1925. Lassiter was not a foe; he was a friend, who accidentally stopped a stray bullet from Magee’s gun whye assault by Magee’s bitterest enemy trying to defend the editor from an —former Judge D. J. Leahy. Back of this event lies a long struggle, in which Magee had dared the might of a powerful political ring, hammered with never-failing tenacity at corruption in high places and fought for six long years to rid New Mexico of venality and bossism in its legislative and* judicial halls. It was in 1920 that Magee, an Oklahoma attorney, moved to New Mexico and bought the Alburquerque Morning Journal from Albert B. Fall, who was just about to begin his career in the cabinet. As an editor, Magee delved into politics a bit. What he found disconcerted him. New Mexico, politically, was under the thumb of a ring that maintained its power through manipulation of the non-English speaking Mexican voters in the State. Magee, through his editorial columns, began to speak up. Mr. Fall, prospering in his new cabinet position, spoke to Magee about it. Magee replied by opening up wider than ever. Magee owed money to two banks. They abruptly refused to renew his notes and foreclosed. Magee was compelled to sell his paper. Started Weekly Paper But in a few weeks he was back again, editing a weekly paper called The Independent, which he later made a daily under the name of The New Mexico State Tribune. He sold stock to the people of the State and got an instantaneous response. About this time Magee took occasion to criticise Justice Parker of the State Supreme Court. A criminal libel suit was brought against him — but not by Parker, who later said he did not believe the accusations of Magee libelous. And Magee was tried, not in his home county, but | in the distant county of San Miguel, before his bitterest enemy, Judge Leahy. The jury was composed of twelve Mexicans, who could not read the sentences they were expected to pass on. During the trial the pages in Magee’s law bookft relating to libel were torn out. and the judge refused to give him time to get new ones. Naturally, he was convicted. Magee expressed his mind about Judge Leahy; expressed it so vehemently that Leahy cited him for contempt of court on five counts. He ordered Magee to jail for eighteen months. The State was aroused. Governor Hinkle pardoned Magee ini twenty-four hours, and the editor went back to his paper and renewed the nght. It was then that Magee struck oil. Not In a literal sense, exactly; but it was a momentous discovery. When Magee bought the Albuquerque Journal, Fall told him he was broke. Now, four years, later, Magee found that ten years back taxes on Falls’ ranch were paid up; that ' extensive improvements had beep made and that a general air of great prosperity had defended on the place. He gathered evidence documentary and verbal, and ir due time went to Washington, where he told the Senate investigation committee enough to start Senator Thomas J. | Walsh on the trail that eventually * laid bare the whole Teapot Dome scandal Then the Scrlpps-Howard newspaper interests came to Magee’s aid and gave him new backing. He returned to New Mexico to renew his fighting campaign against the political ring. Offered to Free Him Leahy, meantime, had been waiting. He had reserved one of the contempt charges against waiting his time. Now hd He revived this old charge, called Magee before him. and sentenced him to three months injail after spending a solid hour excoriating him from the bench, losing such terms as "horse thief." „ New Mexico came close to turmoil then. Hundreds of cowboys sent ■word to Magee that they would, if he asked it, ride in, storm the jail and set him free by main force. Magee told them not to and appealed to the Governor. Again the ■Governor pardoned him. The sheriff, under Leahy’s direction, refused to honor the pardon. It took a ■Supreme Court habeas corpus writ to free the editor. This was in the fall of 1924. Judge Leahy was running for reelection. Magee took the stump nd campaigned again him; campaigned so wel lthat Leahy was badly beaten In a district where he normally could count on a 3,000 majority. . Magee’s troubles seemed over, but the worst was yet to come. It was last August that Magee went to Las Vegas on business. As he sat in the lobby of a hotel Leahy entered, approached from behind and knocked him to the floor. Then he began to kick him, breaking three of Magee’s ribs. Magee, lying helpless, managed to draw his gun. He fired three shots. Two struck Leahy In the arm, but the third, by tragic misfortune, struck end killed John B. Lassiter, who was trying to hold Leahy back. And so Magee was arrested. First he was charged with first degree murder. Then the charge was reduced to manslaughter.

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