The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-05-02
THE HABEAs CORPUS.

case taken up from the Justice Court of H. A. DuSouchet. Judge Hargrave set aside the whole proceedings as irregular. As the case in question has been commented on by persons not familiar with the circumstances and in an unfair spirit we have concluded to give short synopsls of the matter from beginning to end.
 One James Glendenning, ''cow herder" and a particular friend ofa hired man Tn the Recorders office. Prescott, hired to the late Judge J w. Kelsey, of Kirkland Valley, on the lst nay of November, 1877, at $50 per month. On the first day of January, 1878, Glendenning was paid $60, c1n3e- quently his time can be set down as com mencing from that date. In July, months after, Mir. Kelsey passed from earth to the other shore, leaving a lonely widow. who immediately came to Prescott and took up her residence with Mrs. C. W. Beach, her only child. GIendenniDg was retained at the former rate of wages and continued so to work until April lst, 1879, b months Thus things went on until about the lst of April, 1879, when teis man wrote note stating that he wished to be relieved. An other was sent to Kirkland Valley to take his place. On the 2ad Of April Glenden- hing came to Prescott, presented his ac- count fur 15 months wages, with credits, etc, correctly made out al $50 per month. His account was examined and pronounced correct. He was told to take our horse, winch he rode up from the valley, back to
 the ranch. get his clothing and return by ! the 9th and receive what was due him. lie replied that he had changed his mind about leaving Arizona, and that he did net want
 his money, but preferred a note bearing in- terest and expressed a great desire to remain
 at the ranch, in Mrs. Kelsey's empsoy if we
 would pay him $40 per month, the same We
 were paying the new man, and added you can't depend on that fellow he is 1. wander cr" We refused Glendennings pr positions | for reasons which We herewith briefly state snd,ior which he will have to answer if he re-
 turns to thIs county.
 | After August, 1878, until December, Glcndenning was utilized in vanous avo- cations around our premises in Prescott,
 most of the time getting in wood. During
 his five months stay in Prescott, we were
 informed that he stole from Tom Ruff, an
 overcoat, from s. c. Rees. pistol, from
 my house a coa. belonging to Dan OLeary,
 and in January, 1879, rom Samuel Dennis. | pair of blankets. These things had but | just revealed themselves and we felt as
 though we had no use for light fingers any | longer. Glendenning went pack to Kirkland
 valley on the 2nd or 3rd of April and re- turned Gn the 7th. On the morning of the 8th he called aI our office for his money. The account he presented for our inspec- tion on the End of April had been destroy ed and the enraged man who was uot re-
 tained in our employ, presented new bill It included the two months Tn 1877
 which had been settled, and added $l0 per month for eight months, more than his
 contract price, thus, $60 and $50 were in- correct. His attention was drawn to the fact when he admitted that he had been
 paid the $60 for 1877, and that he added the ten dollars per month because we had hired a man to take his place at ten dol lars per month more than he was receiving, and claimed that his services wee equally as valuable as the man who succeeded him.
 We objected to the raise he hau made-he applied harsh words, we advised hIm to make out correct account and receive his money.
 He left our office and returned again in
 the afternoon still claiming an unreasona
 ble sum of money which was entirely out side of his contract, as we have his own
 written statements to show. He again ap- pied insulting language such as loafers gen.
 erally use-a melee ensued, he was thrown
 against the side of rough board partition
 q nail projected out and on this his right
 ear was sli .htly larcerated. After consult .ng with our dedr friend and his beloved adviser tOge her with the TRIO, i've know
 them alb the game was concocted and a
 complaint entered against us for biting Glen
 Jennings Hopper. He swore 10 it, A LIE
 the trio batting him on the back aud whis , u1ring "sicn Our witnesses wero sworn and thfir testimony taken anu regarded by the UNBIASED J. P. with that weight which a feather would be to a hurricane. We were (not to our surprise) after careful ex- animation of the evidence, by the ex-soldier . ''cinched." Held to answer without ball. We appealed our case to Court Commission CT, Judge HargTave, and were discharged
 We will here remark that little bit of flaw
 and telegraph line are two dangerous ami mals. Outside counsel was called in to as sist the very able District Attorney who did his utmost to procure our conviction anc that too against evidence. We will live ts ge' even on him yet.
 We came out victorious, notwithstanding the assertion made by the J. F., before w' were examined, that he knew we were guilty and would 'sock it to us", and thc ] hard work of certain hell hounds, who took such an active part Tn having us convicted To those who he'd street caucuses, adjourn ing to take drink occasionally, we ask no
 odds We shall continue to do our duty as [
 journalist irrespective of their opinions and henceforth when "blussom nose" so far los
 es his balance as 10 become a companion oi . the swise in the gutter, he shall receive complimentary notice. We 'nave been ID r Prescott since 1864, aud expect 10 remain here until our race is run on earth, and ic
 strsgglers who come Tn and pretend to have
 the good of the country at heart when they are really impos,ors, we shall pay but little attsniios. YavapAi county we have helped , to make wha; it is. Our earnings for le years VIC have isvested in Prescott and to
 those patriotic law loving CD heroes whe do not pay one cent into our treasury and ! have tried to iniure us we would say, go tc