Arizona republican., 1894-03-03
NOT GUILTY.
Wm. Doheney Acquitted Last
 Night.
The End of Four-Year'S Struggle Came Just Before Mid-
 night.

hands of the twelve men who were to say whether the shot which killed his father was fired in self de- fense or whether it was the continuation of a family feud-whether fear or hatred moved the trigger of the shot gun which lav on table in the court room, a ghastly exhibit, turned in his favor last night.
 When the trlal was resumed vester- day morning it was learned that the taking of testimony would occupy more time than had been expected. The additional evidence was not calculated to throw any further light upon the actual incident of the killing-only upon circumstances preceding the tragedy.
 The first witness was Mrs. Overmeyer a neighbor who testified to hearing the shots. Mrs. Julia Scheick and Mrs. S. M. Phillip testified to to the relations between the deceased and his family and described the assault upon the de- fendant the day before the killing by three Mexicans at the instigation of James Doheney.
 A house immediately after the shooting said that he saw two men running down the street. One of these men was Ignacio Robles and the prosecution says the other was creature of the street car drivers brain.
 For the prosecution in rebuttal, Robles, Constable Henry Garfias and Julio Marron were put on the stand. Marron, by the way. is one of the men who visited the house the day before the killing and who is supposed by the defense to have accompanied Robles and James Doheney to the house on the night of the tragedy.
 The whole forenoon was taken up with the evidence. The arguments be- gan in the afternoon and were opened by Assistant District Attorney Me- Dougal in an address of an houh He presented the case in masterlv man. ner and carefully reviewed the evidence, particularly that part of it relating to the bitter relations between the father and son. MT. McDougal ln his first ap- peaiance before jury in this county created favorable impression and proved himself to be an eloquent, a careful and a well informed lawyer.
 He was followed by Mr. J. c. Kellum for the defense who is also new to Maricopa county juries. His ad- dress was strong and effective and chiefly distinguished for it's rhetorical excellence. It abounded in figures illus trative of the conditions which had pre- sented themselves in the course of the trial. Describing the arrangement of the deceased from his family he said:
 ''In listening to this case a pleasant picture arose before my memory, whose image was only dimed by the stern realities of the case at the bar. That picture was the American home and hearthstone. What a model for an artist; what a picture for painter what premise for 8 philosopher. A happy freside, a contented father. a loving mother, cooing babes, prattllng children, all gathered around the board or perchance sitting in the evening gloaming, listening to the chirping notes of the feathered songsters, watching daylight deepen into darkness, happy hearts responding to happy notes in happy strains, each rippling laughter touching the silent chord in the heart that has no other responsive note. It is picture the mind might wander in- to with rapt ecstacy. The yellow, bill, owy fields of ripening grain; the green waving pastures dotted with fattening herds; the red, ripe, golden fruits; all glimmering in the bright sunlight, ready for the sickle, to be garnered into the granary, giving a bank account tc the father, food and raiment to the mother and children, contentment to all. And in our own free America truly one can say, my home is my castle this realm is nay boundary no limit to their sway. Under "old glory"I will defend all that is near and dear to me by the inalienable rights of an Ameri. can citizen. That is the forged chain which indissolubly locks together oul fates and fortunes and engirdles oul lives with the clasped hands of youths pl1ghted love. What a significant meaning has that little monosyllable "home" what a gallery it conjures ur before our eyes. What a talismani( word. home-where love is 8 sleep, ir which we dream of joy, which rises be | fore us in the air in endless architec ture, which the imagination never tires of rearing upon the clouds. We awake we are at home, and the unsnbstantia castles of our deans become as soliC masonry, when we view the cheerfu hearth. hear the prattle of our children and press the responsive lips of the faithful wife. This is the glad consuma tion of all our hopes, and all other joys which wealth and power and satiateC am bition tempt us with, pale before the splendor of such 8 sun as this, whose fire the grave quenches not and whose light pieIces the shadows of eternity.
 "What contrast, this case now be fore us,-a wife, widow-children, or phans-s son. parricide. And why Because that father, that husband, is teeming over with 8 longing lust-s lewd lasciviousness-and hellish lia son coupled together with a foul con spiracy, rotten, reeking with rancor ous desire to defraud, cheat and stea not only the good name from that wift of his bosom-the mother of his child ren-but to rob that woman of tn, house which sheltered her, and tn, birth.right of her children. With . hired band of midnight assassins tha father and husband sought to gain ad mitance to that home and dispos sess her whom he had sworn to pro tect, houor and cherish until death | Rut little did he think that death wat