Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-06-07
.ACQU|TTAL FOR
 B|SBEE LAWYER
Attorney Starr Williams Tried for Per jury in Manufacturing Evidence Is Freed by Jury Sunday, but May Have to Stand Trial Again.

Attorney Starr Williams of Bisbee
 who is we'll known in Globe, was ae
 quilted by the jury which has been try
 ing him for perjury. Recent informa
 ton from Tombstone is to the effect
 that he will be immediately tried again on another indictment charging suborn
 ation of perjury. Of the case the Bis
 bee Miner of Monday says;
 After being out almost exactly twen
 ty-four hours, the jury in the case of
 the Territory of Arizona vs s. K. Will
 liams, who was tried on charge of subornation of perjury, returned a yer
 diet of not guilty. The verdict was
 brought in yesterday afternon at [ O clock. A great deal of surprise was oeeasioned by the news of the return of the verdict in Bisbee, as it was sup. posed by those who had been following the evidence that the best the defense could expect would be hung jury.
 For nearly a week the time of the court had been occupied by the taking of evidence and the numerous argu. ments engaged in by the attorneys on each side. At every point during the trial the issue at point was hotly con tested and generally the defense se- cured slight advantage. Several wit nesses on each side who were to have been introduced, both sides agreeing that their evidence would not be taken. As the result of this slight advantage was secured by the defense, as the case had then largely to be made on the tes- timony of Buster and other men who had eonfessedly committed perjury in the Campbell case.
 The story of the Campbell case, the arrest and trial of Buster and the con sequent indictment returned against s. K. Williams, has become familiar to nearly every. man, woman and child in the Warren district. On account of Will hams prominence as an attorney, the case excited wide interest among the legal profession in the territory. It was their resolve that should the case against him be proven, no stone should be left unturned to oust him from prac- tice.
 The origin of the trouble was last May when Chay Campbell shot and almost instantly killed William Me Laughlin. Both were transformer and the matter from which the shooting transpired was very trivial one.
 Campbell was bound over to the grand jury by Justice Owen Murphy on the morning following the tragedy.
 On the case coming to trial to the great surprise of many people, as pub lie indignation was highly aroused at the time of the shooting, Campbell es- capped with a short term of years in the Yuma prison, which he is now serving. Some of the evidence introduced at the trial sounded to Constable Doyle, who was present, very faulty; especially was this so in the case of Buster, who was the star witness of the defense.
 @h piiOi AhfVotiSdIluH VI Iue HldH whereabouts on the day in question showed that he had been working at the Junction shaft at the time he tes- tifed he had seen the shooting. He was arrested, tried and sentenced to 'erve five years.
 After his conviction Buster made af- | idavit in which he swore to the fact hat he had been suborned and his tes- | ,imony secured by s. K. Williams, who vas one of the attorneys for the de- 'ense.
 Other witnesses were secured and con 'essed that they had perjured them elves. This resulted in the indictment If Williams on the subornation of per ury charge and the consequent trial.
 It cannot be ascertained what will 'e done in the matter of indictments eturned against Williams and others m this and kindred charges in connec- jon with the case. Whther all the rest if the cases will be tried out or not annot be ascertained. It is thought | however, that the matter will low be allowed to drop, at least for he time being.
 A greater aggregation of legal tal- mt has rarely been assembled in this ounty than represented the two sides if the case. On the side of the prose ution were Attorney General Clark of 'hoenix, District Attorney F. s. Shel-