Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-05-09
BIsBEE EDITOR TAKEN ON LIBEL
 CHARGE.
(From Fridays Daily.)

Tuesday at Tombstone, was the in. dietmcnt of w. B. Kelly, editor of the Review on a charge of criminal libel
 The complaining witness is an attor. ncy named Tom Bennett, and he is be. lieved to be the same man who pulled gun in saloon in Prescott last Septem. Der while in disgracefully drunken condition, and nearly shot bystand. CT and the bartender
 Bcnnett's charge of criminal libel is based upon an editorial in the Review which appeared on December 5th. headed; "The Newspapers, the Court and the Jawyers.'
 The indictment was returned into open court shortly after the noon hour, and bench warrant was issued for the arrest of the editor of the Re. view. sheriff Stewart Hunt arrived in Bisbcc on tho afternoon train from Tombstone, and before sundown the editor was in the tolls. The defend ant was allowed to % on his own ye. cognizance, and will accompany the sheriff to Tombstone, there to appear before his Honor, Judge Doan, to an. swer to the indictment.
 As soon as 1t became known in Tombstone and Bisbee that an indict. ment had been secured against the editor of the Review, Editor Kelly wns in receipt of telephone messages by the score from both places, offering bonds, legal assistance and advice in abundance.
 The editor of the Review opines, if the case against him should ever come to trial, to be able to prove to the satisfaction of any twelve men in Cochise county, the truth of every as sertion contained in the editorial of December 5th, extracts from which are as follows:
 "The Review asserts that it had
 right morally and legally to publish
 every line that it has published (with
 reference to the Sauvage murder case), and that such publications were
 not of the kind tending to influence
 juror for or against the defendants.
 The only editorial mention made of the
 case was interference to sn affidavit
 fled last week, prepared by Attorney
 Bennett, which was on the day follow
 ing, proven in court to have been per. jured, and which entailed upon the business men of this community, and other communities throughout the county, the necessity of . trip to
 Tombstone, to prove that the aforesaid ? affidavit was, in part at least, . per. i, jured affidavit"
 "The newspapers of the county, and ? especially the Review, are . friend to I the court in m honest endcavor to !. administer justice and to have case' 2 in this county tried on their merits 2 The mission of the press is to print th' !, news.
 g "Thc taxpayers of Cochise count,
 however, are in danger from a smal 1. ,oterie of irresponsible lawyers a ] present. practieing in this county, an' P he court can do more toward cutting ( 'own the expenses attending the tria !, f criminal cases by bringing some O
 hcse gentlemen up with sharp tur q oth on the part of the prosecution an' |, { the defense, instead of listening { v 'fdavits charging the newspaper / vith m expensive condition of s' , airs.
 ,, "The Review, speaking as ono of th ? ewspape-s alluded to by the court ' , is remarks of Saturday last, denie \ he allegation that the newspapers 2 'c 'ochise county were at fault in pu' {, '.hing the news reps-ding the Sauvar f ,urder ease, or that such publicatio . vas sufficient ground for a change ' i' 'enue to another county. The eou' ,c m find the condition Of which he co'' ', iains closer at home by reaching ov' T. is desk any day during the mornir l, our and cracking over the head wit n is judicial cane two or three irrespo' !, ible, bush -whacking, affidavit makir ' 'wyep."
 T. No doubt, the extracts above const is ute the grounds for the indictment. . oEMENrED MAN ID ORDERED q v AAVY.vrNH