ety of conduct and intelligence as to win the
admiration of every fair-minded citizen of Wyoming. They
were careful, pains-taking, intelligent and conscientious.
They were firm and resolute for the right as established by
the law and the testimony. Their verdicts were right, and,
after three or four criminal trials, the lawyers engaged in
defending persons accused of crime began to avail themselves
of the right of peremptory challenge to get rid of the
female jurors, who were too much in favor of enforcing the
laws and punishing crime to suit the interests of their
clients. After the grand jury had been in session two days,
the dance-house keepers, gamblers and _demi-monde_ fled out
of the city in dismay, to escape the indictment of women
grand jurors! In short I have never, in twenty-five years of
constant experience in the courts of the country, seen more
faithful, intelligent and resolutely honest grand and petit
juries than these.

A contemptibly lying and silly dispatch went over the wires
to the effect that during the trial of A. W. Howie for
homicide (in which the jury consisted of six women and six
men) the men and women were kept locked up together all
night for four nights. Only two nights intervened during the
trial, and on these nights, by my order, the jury was taken
to the parlor of the large, commodious and well-furnished
hotel of the Union Pacific Railroad, in charge of the
sheriff and a woman bailiff, where they were supplied with
meals and every comfort, and at 10 o'clock the women were
conducted by the bailiff to a large and suitable apartment
where beds were prepared for them, and the men to another
adjoining, where beds were prepared for them, and where they
remained in charge of sworn officers until morning, when
they were again all conducted to the parlor and from thence
in a body to breakfast, and thence to the jury-room, which
was a clean and comfortable one, carpeted and heated, and
furnished with all proper conveniences.

The cause was submitted to the jury for their decision about
11 o'clock in the forenoon, and they agreed upon their