Arizona republican., 1908-10-24
THE CASE DISMISSED
 DEFENDANT DISCHARGED
1t Could Not Be Established That 1t Was Mr. 6lake's Cow That Had Been Killed.

 The case of the Territory vs Juan Romo. charged with killing a COW be-
 longing to E. NJ. Blake was dismissed and the defendant discharged yester-
 day afternoon after an exhaustive in
 quiry into the facts of the matter.
 While the case was dismissed, the
 hearing brought out a great deal of
 interesting information and the whole
 case Is one that Assistant District Att
 torney Lyman, who conducted the
 prosecution. says is one of the most
 remarkable that has ever come under his observation.
 According to the evidence yesterday
 a hide and entrals of a cow were
 found, last Monday morning by Frank
 Flores and R. Truillo near the Priest
 ranch while hunting quail. Robert
 Mullen was near by at the time and he
 was called to the scene and brought
 the hide to town. F. M. Blake lost a COW some weeks ago and had reported
 the matter to Inspector Robbins and to him also was reported the finding of the hide. He put two and two to-
 gether and MT. Blake was given a chance to identify the hide He look ed it over as did his son Parely and
 both pronounced it the hide of their COW. A day after the finding of the
 hide, the head of the animal was also discovered within a few. feet of where the other remnants had been located.
 The finding of this head put another light on the affair entirely for at the hearing yesterday and before the trial.
 plrlaxy To the head was not that of his fathers COW. AlYares. the Mexican from whom Mr. Blake bought the COW also testi- fled that while the hide resembled the COW he had formerly owned he did not regard the head as from the same animal Thus 1t appeared that there was no evidence to connect Mir Romo with the killing of MT. Blake's COW for it could not be established that the hide and head found was from the Blake COW, though it was evident that both were from the same animal. Two other parties were quite confident however, that the hide and head be- longed to the Blake COW but it could not be clearly proven and Mir Lyman said that in yiew of the conflicting testimony and the difficulty in estab- fishing the most essential point, name ly that it was Blake's COW that had been butchered. he could hardly rec ommend that the defendant be bound over to the grand jury If. when the grand jury was in session, that body cared to consider the case, the testi- mony would still be available The defendant was forthwith discharged.
 The hearing drew packed court room and was highly entertaining at times. Attorney Goodwin defended MT. Romo in his. characteristic style and frequent lively tilts between him and certain witnesses provoked con siderable amusement.
 The hearing proved quite beyond a doubt that the hide on evidence was off a COW that had been illegally but there was only one thing that connected Mir. Romo with the incident and that could hardly be regarded as conclusive evidence. Rob- ert Mullen, developing d detective in stinct. had. upon finding theNhide. talk en the measurements of the track of the man who had deposited the re- mains in the brush. The prosecution asked that these measurements be compared with Mir. Romo's shoe and over the objection of Mir. Goodwin. this was permitted The comparison was almost identical but as it had no bearing on the case in view of the inability of the prosecu- tion to sustain the first point in the charge. little attention was paid the incident