Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-17
HOBO RECEIVES STANDARD OIL
 PENALTY
Story Of Phoenix Judge Who Fines Migrants Twenty-nine Millions, With Alternative Of Leaving Town,

PHOENIX, Sept. i6.-Judge Perry Williams of Maricopa is a stickler for order within certain limits and the other day he also showed that he was an observer of judicial precedent. Maricopa Is one of the principal sta tions on the great hobo route across where the most of the hobo passen- gers get ditched. They finger about the station waiting for an outlet and many of them give way to lawless tendencies.
 Justice Williams orders them ar rested in the evening and they are chained to a stake on the desert until next morning when they are given a more or less summary trial It is too expensive to send them to Flor ence, the county seat. The court therefore administers an alternative sentence consisting of an hour or two to get out of the baiiwick The de. sfendant after his night on the desert usually accepts the alternative.
 The other day hobo who had been SD chained out was brought before the court and was promptly convicted. In pronouncing his doom Judge Will Hams said: Tt is the judgment of this court that you are guilty as charged. and this court, following the precedent recently set by another learned and eminent jurist of the east, will assess against you a fine of s29, 400 900. or. as an alternative, get out of town"
 h-h Judge. will you please let me have a checkbook. I dislike to part with so large a sum in a single lump. but circumstances compels me to it. am, as you may observe, in jll health and am travelling on the advice of my family physician who has warned me against doing anything precipitable. I fear the result on my heart of the sun denness of action involved in your alternative. Let me have the check book
 It has not been officially reported that the check has yet been return ed but the incident brought to the recollection of a bystander a judicial episode he had witnessed in Tucson during the career upon the bench of that precinct of the late Justice Charles Meyer. He said Justice Meyer had issued instructions to his Mexican constable to search his pris- oners carefully before locking them up and to report to the court the possession. That information the court believed would assist him in ar irving at Judgment.
 Tom Davis, a miner. who had been arrested and assessed for all the traffic would bear. determined one day to fool the court. He had saved something more than $500, which he converted into biiis of vary ing denomination and placed it in bandage around his leg below the knee. He held out enough to carry out the specifications for the drunk and in the course of the night he was arrested. When the constable got possession of him he had a single S bill in his pocket. At the conclusion Of his trial the next morning the court imposed fine of s. Davis in the course of the night had removed the bandage from his leg and put the roll into his pocket So when the of the fine was announced. he ostentatiousIy removed the roll, skinned s bill from it and handed IL to the court.
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