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Gomez and Hernandez 187
sufficient to put him in the stocks, call a court-martial, and divide his equipments among the staff
There was difficulty in finding a man to defend the
'prisoner, because every one believed him guilty, and
the defence of a criminal is an unpopular task; but
Dr. Hernandez, seeing that he was without friends,
undertook it. The trial was longer than that of
Gonzales. It was begun early in the afternoon and
ended at midnight.
Hernandez made a psychological study of the
prisoner, sifted the evidence, and became convinced
of his innocence. He demonstrated that the man's
accounts, as receiver of taxes for the government,
were straight, and that he could not have appropriated public funds. The man was merely a physical coward. He had witnessed Gonzales' execution,
and had heard of the shooting of the prefect and the
negro corporal. He formed an exaggerated dread
of Gomez' discipline, and so ran away out of ordinary timidity. He lied to the guards as a timid
man would be likely to do.. When Hernandez
closed his defence, the court acquitted the tax-
collector, with a trifling sentence for the irregularity
of his exit from camp, and his equipments were
returned to him.
The result of this trial caused a temporary
estrangement between Gomez and Dr. Hernandez.
Gomez would not confirm the finding of the court.
He simply called the affair off, and peremptorily
ordered the tax-collector out of sight and out of
camp. Gomez did not believe the man innocent,
and Hernandez did. Gomez thought that Hernandez had been influenced by an emotional kind-
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000232 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Gomez and Hernandez 187 sufficient to put him in the stocks, call a court-martial, and divide his equipments among the staff There was difficulty in finding a man to defend the 'prisoner, because every one believed him guilty, and the defence of a criminal is an unpopular task; but Dr. Hernandez, seeing that he was without friends, undertook it. The trial was longer than that of Gonzales. It was begun early in the afternoon and ended at midnight. Hernandez made a psychological study of the prisoner, sifted the evidence, and became convinced of his innocence. He demonstrated that the man's accounts, as receiver of taxes for the government, were straight, and that he could not have appropriated public funds. The man was merely a physical coward. He had witnessed Gonzales' execution, and had heard of the shooting of the prefect and the negro corporal. He formed an exaggerated dread of Gomez' discipline, and so ran away out of ordinary timidity. He lied to the guards as a timid man would be likely to do.. When Hernandez closed his defence, the court acquitted the tax- collector, with a trifling sentence for the irregularity of his exit from camp, and his equipments were returned to him. The result of this trial caused a temporary estrangement between Gomez and Dr. Hernandez. Gomez would not confirm the finding of the court. He simply called the affair off, and peremptorily ordered the tax-collector out of sight and out of camp. Gomez did not believe the man innocent, and Hernandez did. Gomez thought that Hernandez had been influenced by an emotional kind- |
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