Arizona republican., 1895-05-23
Pleas Will Be Entered
 on Saturday.
Little Interest Attached to the
 Arraignme ent Proceedings.
The Publicity Of the indictments Failed to Add to What Was
 Already Known.

The principal incident in district court yesterday weg the arraignment of the defendants for embezzement in connection with the Tempe bank fail- ure. The bonds of P. P. Daggs. p. B. McCabe, R. E. Daggs and ". A. Daggs had been approved the night before.
 The bond of W. L. Van Horn, who had been released on his own reoogni. zance, was fixed at 4,000 to cover the five indictments against him. His sureties were Col. Wm. Christy and J. ". Benham.
 Eighteen charges against the five de- fendants were included in seven indict- ments as follows:
 The first indictment is against P. P. and W. A. Daggs and w. L. Van Horn for the embezzlement of $50,000, thereby defrauding the Bank of Tempe, of which P. P. Daggs was president. W. A. Daggs, vice. president, and W. L. Van Horn, cashier. The witnesses are W. G. Dodson, W. L. Van Horn, c. T. Hayden, c. B. Atwood. Sam and Cora Goodman, L. T. Higgins, D. A. Abrams. P. J. Cole, P. B. McCabe and W. T. Smith.
 The second charges ". 4. and P. P. Daggs with appropriating 10000 head of sheep. Witnesses-W. T. Smith, ". L. VanHorn, P. B. McCabe, L. F. Higgins, D. A. Abrams and P. J. Cole. The third is against P. P. and W. A. Daggs and W. L. Van Horn for the em. bezzlement of a $25,7S413 promissory note belonging to the Bank of Tempe, the defendants being the president, vice-president and cashier. l The fourth charges R E. Dacgs, ". L. VanHorn and P. P. Daggs with em- bezzling $9.000, by the declaration of 8 dividend when the bank WAS on the eve of failure. Wltnesses-D. A. Abrams, P. J. Cole, W. T. Smith and W. L. Van Horn.
 The fifth charges R. E. and P. P. l Daggs with the embezzlement of $342 belonging to ". T. Smith. Witnesses ". T. Smith and D. Abrams.
 The sixth charges R. E. Daggs, ". L. VanHorn and P. Daggs with embezzl- ing $1,OO0 from 0. T. Hayden. Witt nesses,C. T. Hayden, c. B. Atwood and W. L. VanHo
 The seventh and last is an indictment against P. P. Daggs containing two counts, charging him with the embez- clement of two promissory notes amounting to $3.00l, the property of Chas. Roberts.
 On account oi the number of the in- dictments and their complexities the court departed from it's custom of re- quiring pleas to be entered the day fol. lowing arraignment and gave the de- fendants until Saturday morning to plead.
 Judge Wood ward will represent all the defendants except MT. Van Horn. His law partner, H. z. Zuck, will ap. pear for him but will probably be assisted by the counsel for the others.
 The publicity of the indictments did not add much to what Was already known by rumor concerning the character of the charges.
 In that part of it's final report relat- ing to county affairs the grand jury recommends the sale of the county hos pital and grounds and the erection of another and larger hospital. A com plaint of inmates of the county jail that the Chinese restauranteur who has the contract for feeding them, is habitually swindling the swill barrel is noted and referred to the jail authorl- ties. The report also shows that twenty seven cases were presented for investigation and nineteen indictments were returned.