Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-12-29
fx.1RtASURER STORM
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM
The Papers in His Appeal Filed in
Supreme Court Yesterday.

Papers in appeal in the ease of the
territory against J. p. Storm were
filed in the office of the clerk of the
| supreme court yesterday. The appel
liant the former treasurer of YavapaI
county. was convicted on June % last
Of embezzlement of the funds of the
county and was sentenced by Judge
Sloan to four years in the territorial
penitentiary.
He had been twice tried on indict-
ments charging him with embezzle-
ment and had been acquitted. The last
preceding trial had taken place only a
month before the trial rsulting in his
conviction.
The discovery of the shortage in the
accounts OF the treasurer followed a
supposed robbery of the office. One
morning the treasurer was found by
his daughter, bound with wire and w.
ing in the vault of his office From the
beginning suspicion attached to Storm
and very soon the Suspicion took the
form of an accusation resulting in sew
eral indictments being returned
against him. In the papers in appeal
there is an affidavit by Storm that he
is poor man and unable to pay the
expenses OF the proceedings.
The appeal is based on allegations
of numerous errors by the court but
the one on which the greatest reliance
seems to be placed is the setting aside
by the trial court the proposition OF
the defense that Storm had already
been in jeopardy and could not there
fore be tried again.
An 81.
Cochise county of the case of the
Richardson Roberts Dry Goods Co. Of
ST. Joseph Mo, against r. II. Wren
and others including Henry MANI
Wren. who had been i'm business in
Bethany Mo. had gone into liquidation
and among his creditors was the plain
tiff to whom he owed on an open ac-
count something more than $4,000
Various efforts had been made by the
plaintiff to put Wren on his feet: he
had been sold more goods to freshen
his stock which he was trying to sell
out Then the plaintiff was persuaded
not TO insist on a mortgage on certain
Missouri property for the reason that
Wren was about 10 trade IL for some
property at Douglas Arizona. on which
he would give a mortgage to secure
several notes which in the mean time
had been given the plaintiff to close
the account. This trade was made and
when the plaintiff insisted on the
promised mortgage Wren was about
10 trade the Douglas property for
property in Bisbce and he would give
a mortgage on that He finally did so.
Here is where MANI became involved.
He was the owner Of the Bisbee prop
erty. and in his answer he said that he
had been swindled by his co-defendant
Wren. that the value Of the Douglas
property had been misrepresented to
him. and at the time the mortgage was
given TO the plaintiff he was about to
bring suit against Wren for a reels
sionl Of the deal He alleged that tho
mortgage given 10 the plaintiff was
fraudulent for the reason that there
was no necessity for the giving of il.
and he further alleged that the allie
CATION Of the plaintiff that the mort
gage had been given in consideration
of the plaintiffs agreement to give
Wren time To make these various
deals had not been proved.
Though the court gave the plaintiff
judgment against Wren. 1t gave judg-
ment in favor Of MANI giving his lien
on the Bisbee. property preference over
the mortgage. II is from this part Of
the judgment that the plaintiff APP
peals.