Arizona republican., 1908-11-12
STORM $ HOPE
 TAKES FLIGHT Former Treasurer of Yavapai
 Doomed to Yuma
 4 REFERRING IS DENIED Story of a Human Tragedy Which Began to be Told One Night Five Years Ago When the Treasurer Was Found, Bound In His Office.

The last hope of J. P. Storm, the former treasurer of Yavapai county died out yesterday morning when the supreme court denied a motion for a rehearing of his case. storm is under a sentence of four years in the terri torial prison for the embezzlement of the county funds committed to his charge. He was sentenced about two years ago but in the meantime he has been out on bail in the sum of , S7 7.0OO. There is now nothing for him to do but to don the prison clothes.
 The crime with which he has been charged was committed about five years ago. One day Storm was found in his office by his daughter, clumsily bound with wire, the vault door open and the office of the safe rifled of all its contents. The streets had been filled with people, for something out of the ordinary was going on in Prescott. The sheriff's office was a few feet away, but nothing had been heard of any struggle or cOmmotion in the office of the treasurer.
 Suspicion began to form at once but it did not take definite shape until some months afterward. There was a general unfolding of revela- tions. all of which made things look worse for storm. Including the amount alleged to have been stolen by the unknown bandits. storm was short in the neighborhood of $12.000.
 He was finally indicted and brought to trial on a count charging him
 aE iurv disagteed and many thought that would be the end of the matter There was a subsequent trial and a disagreement and the case came up the second time.
 In the meantime, Robert F. Morri- son. who was representing the bonds men, had been employed to assist in the prosecution, and two years ago Mir. Morrison was elected district attorney of the county, mainly on the Storm issue. At the next trial the ex-treasurer was convicted and sen tenced to four years in the terri torial prison An appeal was taken and at the meeting of the supreme court last spring the judgment was affirmed. Then came the motion for a rehearing which has just failed.
 Another matter before the court yesterday was the case of Leather wood against Richardson. from Pima county. in which a motion for a re hearing was granted for the second time This case has been before the court for two years.
 A motion was also granted in the case of the Territory against the Ari- zona Railway company, originally known as the Western Arizona Rail way company, against Foster Dennis, tax collector of Mohave county, an action to restrain the collector from the collection of taxes on the property of the plaintiff.
 This road had been built under a territorial exemption act. The col lector had sought to collect taxes on the ground that the property had passed out of the hands of the bene- ficiary of the act and on the fur ther ground that a part of the prop erty assessed had not come under the exemption act. The opinion of the supreme court, when the matter came before it, was favorable to the con- tention of the railroad company when the territory asked for a rehearing.
 A similar case, that of the Grand Canyon Railway company against Treat. collector of Coconino county, was decided in favor of the company at recent meeting of the supreme court