Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-08
BALDWIN IS NOW ON FINAL
 TRIAL
Negro In Court at Solonlonville Charged With Murder of Mother and Daughter at Roosevelt.


 A special dispatch sent from Solo knoxville. Graham County. to the Globe Silver Belt under date of March 9th saysss4
 The negro William Baldwin. charge dwith a crime which in bru- tality and heinousness surpasses any In the criminal annals of the Terri tory of Arizona. was placed on trial for his life this morning. Judge Nave calljro the trial immediately upon the arrival of the train from Globe bearing most of the court officials of Gila county. It fs expected that within week Baldwin will either be free man or under sentence of death for the murder of Mrs. Harvey Morris and 4-year-old daughter at Roosevelt On the morning of January Sl last. IT Is generally understood that there will be nothing half iway for the negro either freedom Or death on the gal lows, with. little possibility of the for mer according to stories already pub lished of the crime.
 | "Attorney Hill Rawlins and Jacobs. who were appointed by Judge Nave to the unwelcome task of defending the negro. gave evidence this morning 1 that they would do everything in their power to assist the negro in securing justice and will make hard fight to prove his innocence. if there is the shadow of chance that Baldwin did not commit the crime. Objections to the procedure of the court were plen tiful this morning. the first objection of the defense being because of the laieged fact that the yeniTe was not full; they then objected becanse the jury lists were not regular and lacked jurisdiction. Judge Nave oysrruEeo all of the objections.
 The progress in the first day of the trial was slow and it may be sev eral days before jury is secured Many of the veniremen were excrsed today because either of race prejudice or because of having formed an opin ion as to the defendants guilt or in nocence. A large number of those who had been summoned as jurymer professed to having preudice against tha colored race. A surprising feat ure of the case was that a number Oi the venirement from remote parts ol the county owned to having formed decided opinions as to the commission of the crime and it seems that tho case thus far has beep we'll followed in the newspapers, throughout Ora ham county.
 What plan c' defense will be fol lowed by the attorneys appointed b! the court to defend the negro canno be surmised. Baldwin whenever h. talks of the crime. still stoutly main tains his innocence and holds that h, has witnesses who will prove that h. could not have committed the crime Only two witnesses have been sum
 moned in his behalf. Paymaste
 Brooks at Roosevelt and a negr, named Bradley of the same place. l is hardly possible that the defens, will try to prove an alibi.
 TT Eighteen of the heeessary twenty , niHe required for the panel had quail i l fled al the time of adjournment thi
 afternoon. All the, iurymen aE
 being subjected to rigid questionin;
 by both the attorneys for the defens and District Attorney Stoneman an 1t will probably be two days befor
 the jury is completed
 The trial is creating considerabl interes+ here and the coprt room wa crowded throughout fhe days ses sion"