Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-10-02
KIDNAPPING IN 'rRIapO.

We arc no. accustomed is San Francisco ,o strategy ip criminal trials SO interruptions and indecent as that by which the defenders of Tircy L.. Ford are cndcavoring, not. indeed, Co establish his innocence. but to 1e. quit him, says lie San Francisco BuDc- iin.
 Turpi,udc could hardly -,nk lower thAn the employing of depravcd wo- men 70 dcbauch the unfntunatc weak. ing, Loncrgan. Dorland, the "magi yinc wfi,cr.' who is really q private detective for the boodlcrs. invited isoncrgan 'o go lutomobiling at nigb.. LoncrgaB. st th. shr.wd direction ,f William !. Burns. took his wife to ihc try sting place. and the boodlcrs' de. tectivc tJ"rcupon approached him for not having come alone. Their .xps dition. they hintcd, was not of the sort that Mrs. I.oncrgan would ap
 
 wife, and agents of Barns followed the conspirntors to resort where they met other members If the detective corps of the United Railroads. Women had bcn provided to assist in 'hc debauching of Loncrgan. It was the plan, probably. to drug and kiinap Lonorgan. without whose testimony Ford could not b. convicted in this trial. For the purpose of establishing the character of tho women. inc agents of Burns followed them until the women aad some 0f the detectives in pair "cr" traced ;o lodging houses n the tcndorloin. One of these dete,. lives is r man named |. R. Brown. Captain Mooney If the police wen. 70 the room occupied by Brown and one f the women and called the private detectiv" ,o Inc door. Thus 'hr idcn. tifica,ion is certified.
 When the facts of this outrageous endeavor to corrupt and remove a wit. ness were exposed in court. Earl Rog. srs had nothing to say. hut outside of court hc vigorously asserted that Luther Brown of the United Rail. roads detective bureau could prove sn alibi. Rogers was aware that the detective accused of the conspiracy is J. R. Brown, not Luther Brown.
 Earl Rogers may feel that Ford cah. not be acquitted on the evidence. and that the only aspe for the defense lies in foul play of some sort, but his stttt. egy is doing far more toward convict. ing than toward asquitting Tiroy l. Ford. The foul play planned by the defcnSe is usually bunglcd and V re. acts invariably Co tho injury of Ford. Tn. exposure of the plot Co kidnsp Lonergap must have made on the jury z impression exceedingly dc,rimep,n, | Ford. Earl Rogers has done as much 10 help the prosecution in ihs Ford casr az Francis T. Hsucy has done.
 The outrageous conduct of ford's defenders calls for .cverc comment, Ford k entitled 'o fair trial and .o all Inc latitude taat the law allows. No inst man would rriticise rord's rouus"l for trying every means within honor 10 save him from conviction The evidence against Ford is known to tho pubIic. nnl ,nc public understands that Fordis counsel cnnno, find much hope ar comfort in inc evidence. bu, must rely strongly ou the tricks and arts of tho jury lawyers, Int oven a desperate raso does aot wurrant such desperate measures as thn Kidnapping ,f witnesses and tho deliberate inven. lion of falsohoods snch as the cnarga made by Earl Rogers ina, tbc prosccu. ion of tl,c boodlcrs was an incident in , grand conspiracy, headed by ,Ru- loIph Spreck"ls. 10 sell tho Spring Valley Water Works io. ihu municipal. is n n, 0Sorbiian, price. There are