Arizona republican., 1897-09-22
PHILIPS HELD FOR $t,00O
He Will Likely Succeed In Sc.
 curing'Bail Today
The Defense Did Not Disclose Its Plan of Campaign at the Prelim- mary Examination in the Arson Case Yesterday.

J. A. Phillips was held to the grand jury yesterday to answer to charge of arson. His bond was fixed at $1 ,000 and arrangements for securing it were begun immediately upon the close of the examination. A hitch occurred so late in the afternoon that it could not be adjusted last night, but it will probably be done early today. The family residence in Orchard Grove addition, valued at S5,000 or S6,000, will be transferred to his stepson, Garrett Schuller, heretofore known as Garrett Phillips. He will thus be qualified to act as bondsman. Phil lips brother-in-law, MT. Borden, had agreed to become the other bondsman, but on examination it transpired that his property was in the name of his wife. Mir. Borden's home is some distance in the country and it was too ate in the day to send for her in time to prepare the bond last night The 4deed to Garrett Schuller for the Or Chnrd Grove property was executed, but not acknowledged
 Phillips gave his stepson a bill of sale of the stock and fixtures in the confectionery and fruit store and he
 
 man is we'll liked in Phoenix and it is said that it was his popularity alone that prevented an earlier col lapse of his stepfather's affairs.
 The preliminary examination dc . veloped nothing more and nothing less than was published in The .Republi- can yesterday morning. It was con- ducted before Justice Kincaid in the district court room, lasting from 10 o'clock in the morning until in the afternoon. Attorney G. P. Bullard represented the accused, who sat be- side him, apparently neither nervous nor troubled. The defense went no further than to rigidly cross examine the territory's witnesses and to offer objections to pretty much all the tes- timony presented. Even Al Galpin's bloodhounds did not escape They were denounced as dogs of a mongrel breed and possessed of an unofficial and unreliable scent. Their appear ance at Phillips house on Monday morning was characterized as an ac- cident
 The prosecution WIS conducted by Assistant District Attorney J. c. Kel- 1um. The witnesses were Officers Steve Bailey and N. J. Hale who were the first at the Ire. They testified as to the arrangement of the combustible and the extinguishment of the tonfagration. William Jacquette, a bartender at the Palace, and George Mcdonald also testified regarding the appearance of the fire and the singed condition of Phillips eyebrows, mus tache and hair when he came down town. A. Wadsworth, the hack driv- erAd of his drive to Phillips resi- dtne~Apd of1seeing man hiding be- hind a -ree in the stone-yard at Third avenue and Washington street. and again crouching behind some bushes on Fourth avenue near the canal He believed that both men were the same and that the same was Phillips, but he could not swear to it. His testi- mony on this point was slightly cor roborated by T. M. Sloan, the s. F. P. >& P. ticket agent who lodges at Phil lips house. He was sleeping on a cot and said that Phillips came home three or four minutes after the hack left the first time. Phillips could have reached home from the bushes on Fourth avenue, where the hack man thought he saw him, within three r~four~mi1utes. But it was not es- fablished that Phillips was unt al- ready at home. MT. Sloan's previous Information on this point was gath cred from conversation between Mrs. Phillips and her son, and it was ex- cluded as hearsay testimony.
 Otto Eberhardt, bartender at the Brunswick, testified that Phillips took a drink there at 2.15 Monday morning