The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-02-03
BRANDING" OF A FEDERAL OF.
 TIGER.

To WHOM IT MAY CoNCERN.-Ail persons arc hereby cautioned against negotiating two certain promssory notes, bearing date Ari- zona City, A. T., November 6, 1871, for Sj0O each, drawn by W. E. IIeIlings and E. F.. Hellings, favor of c. ". c. Rowel, payable in three and six months after date, as said notes were obtained by false representations, and will not be paid at maturity.
 hereby denounce c. W. c. Powell as an unmitigated scoundrei, and hold myself per sonally responsible for this language
 W. E. KILLINGS.
 Territory ef Arizona, County of Pima-ss.
 W. E. IIellings, being first duly sworn, de- poses and says that he is merchant and the senior partner of the firm of w. B. Hellings & Co.,, and resides at Phoenix, Maricopa Coun- ty, Arizona Territory. On or about June l, 1870 was notified that our firm had been indicted by the Grand Jury of Yuma county, for violation of the Internal Revenre laws, though not informed of the nature of the offense. During the latter part of July, while ea route by steamer from Camp Colo rado to Fort Yuma, l met C. w c. Rowell, the United States Attorney for Arizona, and informed him of having been indicted, though not knowing the nature of the oifense, and not being aware of having at any time inten- tionally violated the revenue laws Mr. Row ell made very light of the affair, and inform cd me 1t was some triiling thing, and it would not be at all necessary for mo to ap- pear at Court, but to address him letter to be delivered by my Clerk at Camp Colorado, strt'r- that ' was not aware of having YiO- lated tue reYenue laws, and giving the par tc0arS of how we first commenced business at Colorado, &c.. tc. He as United States Attorney po-itvc, assured me that this 70 Dc ali.-uil'cleHt, that thuIe would probably be about $50 to pay, aud that would end it I followed his instructions explicitly, and a, Che opcuiuE of the court at Ia Paz, in the following December, my clerk, Mir. John II. Salt, presented my letter Judge Reavis, then presiding, informed Mr. Salt that Mr. Roweli was not present, and the case could not be postponed, and on the third or fourth day did call the case up and deputized a Mir Dobbins to act for me, a man whom had never seen, and to whom I had never given the shadow of authority to act for me. Two counts of the indictment for selling merchandise and tobacco without a license were tried, Mr. Dobbins pleading guilty to both charges, all within few min utcs after having been deputized to act The sentence of the Court was that l should pay a fine of $500 with costs amounting in ali to S7S7. Mir. Dobbns demanded 5000 as his fee but compromised on Si00 The third count of the indictment, selling liquor with out license, was not tried at the time for ob- vious reasons-the least punishment that could be inflicted being fine and imprison- 'nent, and that the Honorable Judge did not | care 10 take the responsibility of At the ! time this was occurring, l was engaged with ! my business at Camp Mcdowell. As soon as was informed of the result of the trial. I hastened to La Pax, in hopes Co see Judge | Reavis, but found he had left the Territory. ! saw Mir Darlington, his clerk, who begged of me not to pay any attention to what peo- pie said, and not to take any action in the matter or refer it to Washington before see. ing Judge Reavis, that it would be all right, and that he would guarantee the other case would never come ur, &c The people in La l'az, at this time, were very much excited 1 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 that was in the hands of low. nm. psincipled men. and that any action on my part might involve me in further oomplca- aions, as these men ruled supreme. I reluct. antiy concluded not to report the affair to Washington, but to demand as carly A trial as possible In the case still pending, and re- Pnd'ate Mr. Darlington and his off;.r ,o 'quash" entirely. Before leaying Ia p,y MT Dorrington positively informed me he would nouty me m time for my appearance at Court in the following March or April, retarned to Mcdowell and not hearing from NIT Dorrington or any one connected with L the Court, l, in the latter part of March wro'e Judge keavis at Arizona City, inouir- ins when my case would come up, tha, was anxious Tor trial, &c. The Hon. Judre re- fned that the case had already been called i snd that ny recognizance of 2.oOo had al ! ready been forfeited. About the same time w~ advised by my bondsmen that they Bad been compelled to pay the S s,0oO; tha, they had made an effort 10 have the case possPoned, stating that was not aware of the time or place of the Court sitting, it hay ing been changed from Is Pax to Arizona Csty. Failing m their endeayars ,o have ,hc 1 case postponed until could be notified thcv requested they be permitted te enrags eoun. | sel which was also refused by Judse Reay;s | A lev days subsequent to this was r.ll..l upon by the U. s. Mashal to file . nex h,nS Tor S..vp. triai being set for the f,llou;nr evem'~r. l arrived as Arixnna Civ s.rs 'AihiAys before the trial. In . shor, ,;,rs havupproached by gentleman and ;ns'.-,,,s tenfhey, meaning Reayis and Raw.li wer. anger 70 make the case as hard on me as they
 could, and advising a scttlcment of
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