Arizona republican., 1905-04-20
Says Legal Repr resentative of British
 Government in Hobbs Case.

MT. Courtenay Walter Bennett, Bri- tish consul general at San Francisco and Attorney T. F. K. Carmac who have been in the city during the last two weeks in connection with the Hobbs extradition proceedings left last night for San Francisco Both gentle men were driven about town yester- day afternoon by Messrs. H. J. Me Clung and L. Fl. Chalmers Speaking of their experience in Phoenix yester- day they said that it had been mos. pleasant and that they would like to visit here some time again under hap pier circumstances.
 Regarding the Hobbs case Mir. Car mac said that a most unfortunate mis- take had been made but that neither he nor the consul-generaI were inclin- ed to blame anybody. They were on the contrary disposed to believe that all who had anything to do with the case had acted honestly. MT. Carmac said that at the close of testimony of Wolz he was sure that Hobbs was the man who had murdered the second mate of the Leicester Castle; his mind had not been changed after the first few witnesses in support of the aIibi had been heard His confidence in his case was first shaken when the affidavit of registration by Hobbs was presented and the innocence of Hobbs was made more apparent with the admission of other docum entary evidence showing that Hobbs must have been in Graham county at the time of the murder near Pitcairn Island. But the last straw on the camers back was the introduction of the Copper Era and the Stafford Guardian containing personals and other articles in relation to Hobbs who must have been in the country about that time. MT. Carmac examined those papers carefully and satisfied himself that they had not been "doctored."
 By this time the prosecution was ready to throw up it's hands. It had however sent for Captain John Peety of the Leicester Castle who was then in London and also for John Murray and Thomas Lyons of an Francisco. An affidavit of continuance had been pre- pared but it was never presented. It would have been necessary to swear that it was the belief of the applicant that Captain Peety could identify Hobbs as the murderer The consul general in view of what had already taken place was unwilling to make the affidavit and after the arrival of Mur- ray and Lyons and their failure to re- cognize Hobbs as w. A. Hobbs the case was as good as ended. The con- sul general was unwilling to hold Hobbs in jail a day longer having been convinced that he was not the mur- derer
 Captain Peety by the way arrived in New York the day before yesterday He was met there by a telegram from Consul General Bennett informing him that his testimony would not be requir- ed and he will return at once to Eng land
 MT. Carmac said that in a legal prac- tice of more than thirty years he had never seen so strong an alibi as that furnished in the Hobbs case. It was absolute and supported in so many ways that it was convincing and in vincible. He had come here with the intention of arguing points of treaty law. No law question ever arose in the four days of the hearing He found nothing to contend with but facts and the case was bristling with them.
 MT. Carmac expressed himself in the highest terms of Judge Kent as a law yer and a judge. He, like the judge is Harvard graduate, though his resi- dence at the university ante-d dated that of Judge Kent by several years. MT. Carmac also spoke warmly of the at torneys he met in the case, not only of his associates for the prosecution but also of those for the defense.
 This useless journey has been made at greater expense to him than any other man who attend the hearing for he is one of the