Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-04
ATTORNEYS HAVE
AN OPEN DAY
IN DIST. COURT
1t Is Expected That the Grim
inal Business Will Be Clean
ed Up BY the 10th or 18th
of This Month.
(special 10 the Review.l

Especial to the Review
TOMBSTONE, June 3.-There was
not much doing III the district court
today in the way of trials, the court,
district attorney and the jurors TAX
ing a rest from the strenuous work
that they have been doing during the
present week. having had five convic-
tons since Monday In as many cases
that We're tried.
The cases of Harry Duey, indicted
on four charges of eInbezzlem-:li.
were originally set fos' today and
after the setting had been made they
were postponed until the 9Th, as were
the cases against John Skaggs, indict-
ed on two counts or obtaining money
under false pretenses. so that this
left the day open without any cases
being set down for trial.
It is expected now that the crini-
nal business of the court will be
cleared up by the 1Ota or 18th of the
present month and the Jurors then
used in the trial of a number OF civil
jury cases. The convictions secured
this term of the court promise 10
come close to the record of seventeen
who were given free transportation to
Yuma during the term of office of
d. L. Cunningham. So FAR this term
the principal part of the work of
! the district attorneys Office has been
| done by Assistant J. F. Ross. who
has made an excellent record, and
with those up for sentence today will
have made fourteen convictions, and
that many will have been escorted to
Captain Rynning's summer hotel on
| the banks of the Silvery Colorado
within tie next twenty-four hours. as
| the last excursion of these fourteen
undesirable citizens will be made this
evening.
Pomposio Juarez, who on yester
day was found guilty of having stolen
a horse from the Greene Cattle Com
pany was sentenced this morning ana
drew five years.
Trinidad Cardenas, who was con-
yicted of simple assault, committed on
| a fellow countrynan in Bisbee sew
eral months ago, was sentenced to
| serve a term of three months in the
county Jail Cardenas was indicted on
cGarge of assault with a deadly
weapon, but the jury decided that
the evidence did not warrant a con-
viction for anything more than SIM
pie assault.
An order was made on the civil
docket of the United States court
granting a discharge from bank
ruptcy TO the Black Diamond Copper
whopany. which has been in that
state for a number of years.
Juan Encinas, who plead guilty to
the crime of robbery after his fellow
companion had stood trial and been
convicted of the robbery of the SEQ
field house on Chihuahua Hill in Bis
bee, was sentenced to a term or three
years at the territorial pen.
courtlet5.
Assistant TO the Assistant District
Attorney, Jack White, has been doing
excellent work duriES tae past few
-iys, Especially In THE cases against
the AIeyicans. The attorneys for the.
defense realize the extra work it viii
deyolve upon them when he appears
as associate counsel for the prosecu-
ton
It is remarkable how the prisoners
on trial have lapse of memory !
when it comes to some deciding point |
in the testimony that they are giving, |
and how many kind natured men |
there are in Cochise county who are |
walking around and presenting articles
of all kinds from money and jewelry !
to horses to men they have never seen
before, but 70 whom they forgot to
give their names.
The present jury panel is one OF
the best that has been on duty before !
the district court for some time. In /
every instance where there has been |
d doubt, the jurors have brought in |
an acquittal and on the other nand /
they nave returned the verdicts of
guilty in accordance with the evil
dence produced. They have done the
work promptly. There has not been
as yet Il disa greement and the YER
diets have been returned within a
few hours at the most, and no jury
has had to suffer the Inconvenience
of being locked up over night. The
work of the members of the present
panel is causing most favorable COM
.nents to be passed by the citizens
and taxpayers from all parts Of the
county.
Assistant District Attorney Ross
Yesterday stated that he would mO5t
Geriously resist any attempt TO have
the case of the Territory VS.. s. X.
Williams, charged with subOrnation
of perjury in connection with the
Campbell murder case that was tried
about two years since, postponed and
that he was ready to go to trial in
the case and would have his wIunuss-
es on hand on the day that the case
was set for trial.