Arizona citizen., 1872-01-20

care to ia lle the responsibility ot. At
 the time this was occurring, 1 was
 engaged with my business at Camp
 Mcdowell. As soon as 1 was in
 formed of the result of the trial, 1
 hastened to La Paz, in hopes to see
 Judge Reavis, but found he had left
 the Territory. saw Mir. Darlington,
 his clerk, who begged of me net to
 pay any attention to what people said,
 and net to take any action in the
 matter or refer 1t to Washington be-
 fore seeing Judge Reavis, that it would
 be all right, and that he would guar
 antee the other case would never come
 up, Sc. The people in La Paz, at
 this time, were very much excited and
 indignant at the result of the trial,
 and Judge Reavis was on one or two
 occasions publicly insulted in the
 streets for the course he had pursued
 in this and several other cases of a
 similar kind.
 Feeling I was in the hands of low,
 unprincipled men, and that any action
 on my part might involve me in fur
 ther complications, as these men ruled
 supreme, I reluctantly concluded not
 to report the affair to Washington, but to demand as early a trial as possible in the case still pending, and repudiate
 Mr. Darlington and hls offer to
 "quash D entirely. Before leaving La Paz, MT. Darlington positively informed me he would notify me in time for my appearance at court in the following March or April. 1 returned to Mcdowell and not hearing from MT. Darlington or any one con- nected with the Court, I, ill the latter part of March, wrote Judge Reavis at Arizona City, inquiring when my case
 would come up, that 1 was anxious for trial, &c. The Hon. Judge replied the case had already been called, and that my recognizance of $2,00O had been forfeited. About the same time, I was advised by my bondsmen that they had been compelled to pay the $2,000; that they had made an effort to have the case postponed, stat ing that l was not aware of the time or place of the court sitting, 1t having been changed from La Paz to Arizona City. Failing ill their endeavors to have the case postponed until 1 could be notified, they requested they be permitted to engage counsel which was also refused by Judge Reavis. A few days subsequent to this, l was called on by the U. $. Marshal to file new bond for $2, ,O00, trial being set for the following November. l arrived at Arizona City several days before the trial. In short time, 1 was approached by a gentlemen and in formed that they, meaning Reavis and Rowell, were likely to make the case as hard on me as they possibly could, and advising a settlement of some kind, he giving 1t as his opinion that by paying retainer fee, the thing could be ouashed and nolle prosequi entered. positively refused to listen to any such overtures, and vas deter mined to g bide the result of the trial. The next day, l inquired when the case would come up, and was informed that 1t Wa very uncertain whether 1t | would conc up at all this term. I now felt convinced 1t was their in tention to postpone the case Tn the event of ny noncompliance with their demands. As he delay would occasion ue very heavy losses in my business, 1 was compelled to inquire tn price at which nolle prose- guis were being sold, See document marked A ED. CITIZEN and was in- formed $1 300 would close the busi- ness. I offered $l 900 which was re- fused. Ithen called upon Mir. Rowell and had long talk with him, discuss ing the case from the very beginning, he intimatng that Judge Reayis was -he cause Of 1t, always dssignating him as "that party" Mir. Rowell freely admitted that l was perfectly innocent of the charge, and in a bland voice said But what are you going to 10 about it If that party chooses Q have you convicted-how can you 1elp yourself Then followed a. 'elicitous expression about imprison- nent, Alcatraz, &c. I rold him that vas all bosh, that they dare not go hat far, that the worst they could do, vas what they had threatoned, viz: f Postpone the case from time to time, me to appear with counsel t heavy expense, 6c. He then said: I We'll. now, as a business man. is it I lot decidedly best to pay, say two or 1;