Arizona republican., 1906-05-14
ADMITTED TO THE BAR
 ON A HORSES PEDIGREE
It Was Inserted Among an Attorneys
 Credentials by Mistake.

Here is a story which will probably ultimately find its way in a condensed form into the Green Bag or some Oth- CT similar publication having to do with the affairs of lawyers. It con- cerns the admission of Attorney W. P Miller of Tombstone to practice in this territory.
 The story was suppressed at the time. for the reason that Judge George R. Davis was a dramatis persona and it being understood that Judge Davis was without the slightest trace of humor, the attorneys of the Tucson bar who were cognizant of fhe cir cumstances refrained from giving pub licity. After Judge Davis left-the bench so long time had elapsed that those who recalled the affair seldom spoke of it. as they had worn the subject out laughing over it among them selves.
 But it was recalled on Saturday by the presence in Phoenix of Mir. Miller and Tucson attorneys in connection with the Du Bois gambling case MT. Miller. wno had been for some years engaged in the practice Of law in Wyo- ming. came to Arizona and settled at Tucson. When he had made up his mind to remain there at least for time. he determined to seek admission to the bar of the county. and asked W. r. Cooper then district attorney. to roove for his admission at the next law day. MT. Cooper effusively con- scented to act for Mir Miller in the matter and the latter handed him bundle of credentials. There was among them a certificate from the supreme court of Wyoming hearty endorsements from various bar asso- citations and other documents of quasi official character besides nu
 nerous letters loom influential and private persons. all highly commenda- tory of the character of MT. Miller as a man and his skill as a lawyer.
 MT. Cooper thrust the credentials into his pocket and hurried away. About that time he had fast horses on the brain and his next appearance on the street was in a sulkev behind horse which he had recently bought As he was driving past Alex. Rossis saloon, Rossi, who had just bought Scott McGowan a trotting stallion stopped him to tell him about his equine acquisition, knowing that just then MT. Cooper was intensely inter ested in everything pertaining to the horse.
 The Rossi horse was a blooded and aristocratic animal whose family tree bore many we'll distinguished branches Rossi had a typewriter pedigree of him which. figuratively speaking was a mile long. He brought it to Mir Cooper, who was then in something of hurry. and begged Of Rossi to be al lowed to retain it that ne might peruse it at his leisure. He crowded it into his pocket along with MT. Millers credentials.
 On the succeeding law day. MT. Cooper was in court. and moved the admission of MT. Miller. He approach ed the bench and handed the sheaf of documents bearing on the case up to the court and Judge Davis in his usual ] painstaking manner. began their pe- rUsaL He finally struck one docu- ment which compelled closer attention than the others. His face wore a pug ] zled look and when he had finished | he beckoned for MT. Cooper to come ] forward. Extending the document he | was still holding in his hand he told | the district attorney that it seemed to l be extraneous. Mir. Cooper immediate ! ly recognized the document and reach ed for it. Judge Davis drew it back.
 It was observed that the face of MT. l Cooper took on deeper tinge. The court said something to him in a wnis- 1 per and Mir. Cooper resumed his seat
 wiping a flow of precipitation from his ! brow.
 | MT. Miller was admitted, and after l court had adjourned and the judge had finally retired the attorneys gath | cred about Mir. Cooper to inquire into | the nature of this unusual by-playi
 to inquire if anything of an incrimin- ating nature mad been discovered among MT. Miller's credentials MT. | Cooper did not then explain, but he later gradually divulged what had talk 1 en place. He was asked what Judge l Davis had said to him in a whisper. | It could not have been a reprimand.
 and on the other hand, it could not be i conceived that Judge Davis had de- | scended to the level of a joke But
 Mir. Cooper said that that was pre- l cisely what had been done; that he had
 whispered to him that if Mir. Miller was possessed of as many points of l excellence as a lawyer and a man as | that pedigree ascribed to MT. Rossi's 1 horse, and his forbears as horses. a | certificate from the supreme court of l Wyoming and all the other documents | relating to him were superfluous.