Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-07
DOUGLAS NEGRO WANTS HIS
 FREEDOM
So Do Several Other Convicts From CochiSe County Who Think Judge and Jury Were. Too Severe.

PHOENIX, Aug. 6!-The supreme court docket was heightened by three criminal cases from Cochise county. In one of them the appellant is c. c. Craft, former colored restaurant keeper at Douglas, who is serving a fifteen year sentence at Yuma for try ing to kill a patron, Grant Haywood, whom, according to the testimony of the complaining witness, Craft shot four times making nine holes. The trouble came up over the price of a steak, though that would perhaps have not stepped to chew the rag after having chewed the steak. Craft seems to have been just drunk enough to construe the remarks of Mir Hay wood as part of an attempt to run the appellants's restaurant This took
 place on March 10 of last year.
 The record shows that Haywood, who had been a regular customer, called for steak and the negro with proper forethought told him the price seventy cents. Haywood replied that
 that was more than a man getting $3 day could afford to pay when he could get other things just as filling for less money. He reminded the ne- gro that he had been getting full
 meals there for from thirty-five to fif- ty cents.
 The proprietor then told Haywood
 that he could have the steak for sixty cents and Haywood said he would take it. The negro in order to be sure that there was no misunder-
 standing asked him if he would pay for 1t if it was put up for him. He l replied that he would do so and he { did so after he had eaten it. It was
 then that Haywood began to lecture | the negro on the immortality of charg- | ing such price for a steak. He was ordered out of the place but he re-
 mained and kept talking Finally the
 restaurant man drew a gun and even ] then the customer had to delay his ! going to inquire if the negro was real | ly going to shoot him and argue with | him on that point The negro emp | tied a six shooter at him at close
 range, four of the bullets taking ef- | feet
 In establishing the venue the dis
 trict attorney asked Haywood what
 county all this happened in The wit.
 ness said he was not sure but he ! thought he had heard it called l Cheese That was sufficient since all knew that he meant Cochise. Another case was that of Giuseppe 1 Musso, who is serving ten years at Yuma for the killing of Barney Geis at Tombstone last December. There
 was not a great deal. of intelligible evidence regarding the killing. It
 seemed to have been the outcome of a drunken ro@ iii an Italian saloon | There was one eye witness but he l could not tell what he had seen or | what had occurred immediately pre- | ceding the shooting The Italian after | having shot Geis hunted up an officer l and surrendered himself, saying that he had shot a man. His manner sug. ! gested that he was insane and he was 1 locked up. Later the officer heard I that g man had actually been shot.
 In the third case, O. J. Martin is the appellant and he is desirOus of avoid 1 ing a two year sentence in the terri torial prison for embezzlement. The complainant was s. O. Strong, who
 had let Martin have S230 with which | to open a roulette game. This was before the territorial law abolishing gambling went into effect. The rou lette game was never opened but Mar tin is charged with having squandere6 the money for his own purposes. The defense sought to show that the
 money had not been intrusted to Mar tin as an employe but that he wa!
 handling it as partner. The jurl
 did not take that view of 1t and fOunt [ him guilty.