Arizona republican., 1903-10-10
HE WkBB-DEMUCRAT CASE
There Appears t0 Have Been BooH-
 Keeping Complications.

 day was occupied almost wholly with 1 the trial of the case Of Sam Webb. Jr against the Arizona Democrat Publish ing company, which was begun the day before. There is a possibility that it will be completed today. Several witnesses were examined yesterday hut the two more important were the plaintiff in the case and Col. J. r. Viii son, the principal, and in fact the only owner of the Arizona Democrat. The issue is largely ore of bookkeep- ing and as the books were indifferently kept the court and jury have a grca deal of trouble weighing the evidence gathered from them. The greater part of the afternoon and part of the morning session the plaintiff was kept busy explaining item by itrln, the various sums with which his father, Sam r. Weib, the manager 1T the 4.ij..r Va- credited hia claim having b"a.i a>-.Giied It. the piiintih-
 Col. Wilson's connection with the paper appeared to have become int.- mate carlE in the last political cam paiea. 4 great 1e1l Of money aHlut that time passed into the cGnels of the Democrat. some for running eX- pcEscs and some presumably q part of the campaign fund. The books of tlc paper. however failed to show that 1 any 0: the campaign money ever came 1 to the paper.
 1 There was one item over the disposi- 1 ton of which there was a great deal of dispute. At various times it ap- 1 peared that Manager Webb had con- ! tributed sums of money for one pur- ! pose or another. h one place he had 1 been credited with $250. It was e&- plained that in the course of the cam 1 paisn il became necessary to raise 1 $5G0 for Col. Wilson's campaign eX- i pcrses. The need of the money was mentioned to the colonel and ne raised the money at a bank. Half of the sum i had been credited to the account of | the colonel and the other half to MT. l Webb. It was the contention of the de iense that that particular sum had nothing to do in any way with the af- fairs Of the newspaper.
 Col. Wilson's story or his connection i with the paper and the various things that happened to him during the period l of his connection was heard by the jury and the spectators with great in teIest. He said that some time. not far from the beginning of his campaign the advisahility of being on the inside of an aggressive newspaper was point | cd out to him and he advanced sums Of money for the discharge Of certain in- 1 debtedness against the Democrat. He ! supposed at the time that all the in i debtedress was being cleared up and it was with pain and surprise that he learned later that Nlr. Webb had q claim of $1.5O0 for money advanced and also for his services as manager at salary of $150. The colonel said that there Was q distinct understanding on ! lis part that the paper was to ba made self-supporting that he had ex- presSly stipulated that tie Democrat { should not be allowed to eat it's head off. He said he had tCld Mir. Webb that he had some experience in the newspaper business and wanted no more of the same kind.
 He described the progress Of the ne | gotiGtiO1s leading up to his becoming immersed in the affairs of the Demo- crat. The urh0lY deal was finally consummated in the cellar and the up shot of it ali was that he finally had to take a chattel mortgage on the 1, paper.
 In the course of the cross-examina- ton reference was made to the col oners previous newspaper experience
 
 Kibbey replied that he had understood him 10 say that he had once had a Journalistic connection to which the colonel replied: "Oh, yes, to the extent c; being bled." He was also asked ! if he had derived no benefit from the 1 Democrat as an organ in the course Of the campaign. He said that he had ] probably been benefited. Anyhow he i, would not have been connected with ;i paper adverse to his political interests
 The only other business before the court was the pleading of the persons who had been indicted by the grand jury. Cruz York nleaded not guilty to robbery and his trial was set for Oct II; Dick Richards. an ola man pleaded guilty to criminal assault on little girl and he was remanded until October F for sentence. w. NJ. Carter who had been indicted for forgery pleaded not guilty and his case was sci for Oct T.. Joe F;nlay, arrested for the theft Of lGt 0: Navajo rugs, will be tried Gil October F.
 This is Dr. Pratt's last week in