Arizona republican., 1900-11-17
HALE CONVICTED
The Jury Labored With His Case
 About Two Minutes.

The jury in the case of Alexander H. Hale yesterday found him guilty of forgery in about two minutes. The yer dict was announced in jusr sven min utes after the case was submitted. H. William Stevens, general manager of the Tiilby and Bells Gold mines. whose signature had been forged by Hale, continued his testimony begun the day before. He said that about the time Hale left the camp the office of the company was broken into one night. It could not be discovered the next morn ing that anything in Ithe office had been disturbed and the object of the burg lary was something of a wonder, which was explained afterward when Mir. Stevens received among his vouchers from the bank three of the forged checks which bore under his own sig nature the stamped signature of Willis E. Troy, the owner of the mines. Mir. Stevens found that his check book had be Il tempered with. Three leaves had besn cut out, So close to the binding that ths mutilatioIi had not been mo- ticed. It was then suspected that the burglar had stamped the checks with MT. Trays stamp, intending to com plete the forgery later. He at once suspected Hale, for the forged checks returned contained the unusual words, in full to date" In one of them this was varied to ito full to date Mir. Stevens r. memberod that when h. had settled with Hale, who mad been em- ployed by him, that there was a dis pute over the account and that he had taken the precaution in writing out his check to insert in the body of it, ''in full to date" Four of these stolen checks were accounted for.
 Deputy Sheriff Billy Moore testified that one day when making d periodical search Of the jail h. opened a bundle in Hale's cell and found in it seven checks. All bore the Willis E. Troy stamp and MT. Stevens signature, and one of them was filled out. An inter- vsaing bit of evidence was an exhibit, a piece of paper, in which Hale had been practicing on MT. Stevens sigma ture. His first efforts were crude, but toward the last he attained a perfec- tion which had deceived experts.
 The defense introduced no testimony, but confined i,self to an attack on the indictment on the very technical ground that in the inclusion of copies of the checks reference to the internal rev enue stamps had been omitted.
 The case Of Max Czuczka, indicted for embeZzlement, was neMl taken up. The first and only witness Of the day was sam Korrick of the New York store, where Czuczka had been employed las confidential clerk. MT. Korrfck tes,ti- fled concerning collections made and not turned in by the defendant amounting. as alleged in the indict- -menr, to $50.S0. An effort was made in vain to introduce Mir. Korrick's rec ollSction of a letter he had received from the defendant from Fl Paso. The letter had been destroyed immediately after it's receipt.
 In the course of d statement by MT. K0rT-ick regarding two doz5n socks which the defendant had taken out with him on his last trip. tha defense objected. The witness was allowed to proceed on the theory Hhat the evids nee might turn out ito be relevant When the story reached tn point that the witness had learned that the socks had be5n sold at certain store, MT. Ben nett objected again. This thing" said he. lis developing very rapidly"
 Oh" said the court. 'ws are now in the domain of cognate facts" The ob- jection. though. ito this kind of testi- mony was sustained.
 The case will be resumed this morn ing.