Arizona republican., 1905-01-21
was HIS BUSY DAY
Various and Sunday Incidents in Jus
 tiCe JOhnstone's Court.

Justice Johnstone had rather busy day yesterday. The most sensational case before him was that of Jacob Reibar, JT., who was arrested on com piaint of his father, Jacob Reiber. who charged him with assault. The case was carefully inquired into and the de- fendant was discharged. The defend ant admitted however that he struck his father, though established the nee essity for his act in defense of others. Though such incidents are always a little humihating, the publication of some of the details is warrant ed in eNoneration of the boy who is sober, industrious, hardworking youth.
 MT. Reiber some years ago was. con fined for a time in the asylum for the insane, but was discharged and for a long time lived at home with his fam fly. Thursday he came before Justice JOhnstone and made the complaint against his son, alleging that he had been beaten and that there was no prOVOcatiOu. He seemed perfectly ra- tiOnaI at the time and after careful questioning a warrant was issued. When the story was told in court yesterday by the defendant, his mother. and other witnesses to the incident, all of whom agreed, the complaining witness grew violent and it was then plain to see that his anger was the result of a weakened mentality. At the conclusion of the proceedings he was taken to the probate court, examined by two phy- sicians and again committed to the asylum.
 It appeared that a man named Ma loney had been pasturing some cattle for the family and being unable to do so longer was requested to call at the house for his money. He is an elderly man, entirely deaf and rode a horse to the Reiber residence. For some req son the elder Reioer was greatly an gered at MaIOney, though the latter did not know it. not being able to hear what was said. Mir. Reiber went to the yard and got an aE and came back to the house to kill MT. MalOney. The latter thinking MT. Reiber was going to kill his wife tried to get her out Of the way at the same time exposing himself, the real intended victim. The sen interfered and the father leaving the house said if he couldn't kill Ma loney he would kill his horse. The son followed him out in an effort to dis suade him. The boy had quirt in his hand and tried to bluff his father by striking at him with it so he could get possession of the ax. The father grabbed the quirt and in the mixup that followed the boy slapped his father three times, with the intention only Of Oyerpowering him and not of hurting him. A younger brother and MalOney also came to his assistance and the man was borne to the ground being released again as soon as he was diSarmed and made safe. In the scuf- fle he was naturally badly bruised a fact regretted by his son as much as anybody, but the rough usage no doubt prevented a homicide. Though it was 8. distressing incident it is hard to see how the situation could have been bet ter handled, especially when there was no time for deIiberation.
 Another case tried yesterday was that of Venture LucerO, who was con Ticted of an assoult on Patria Davilla, a fourteen year old girl. The court an nounced that judgment would be rem dered this morning at g o'clock Lu- cerO was the companion of Alberto Bracamonte, who was held to the grand jury a week or two ago for a similar but graver Offense against the same girl. The father of the girl had left the city and left his daughter in she care of Bracamonte who invited Lucero to be his guest at the Davilla home. Both crimes were committed previous to the arrest of BraCamOnte, early in the month.
 There was another case of rather pe- cuIiar interest, that came to nothing. It was that of Jose EstreIla who was charged with a disturbance of the peace on May 2, 1902. The story of the case Is that about that date Con- stable Redwine secure da warrant for Estrella who had left town driving north. The constable followed him and got in sight of him on the desert. He called to him to stop but instead he urged his horse forward and the officer finally took a shot at him. This scared Estrella so he jumped from the cart and took to the brush. The horse ran away and smashed the cart in a col