Arizona republican., 1908-05-22
GARCIA Is GUILTY
 ItlE JURY'S VERDICT
After Nine Hours Deliberation There Was a Compromise in Favor of Mercy.

At 10 o'clock last night strains of popular airs were floating down from the windows of the jury room into the street to the delight of the occupants of benches in front of the court house plaza. It was evident that the jury for the moment had dismissed the perpleXing Garcia case from it's mind A dim light was burning in the court room, for earlier in the evening there had been hope that the jury might return a verdict in time to go to bed That hope had been abandoned. The bailiffs were dozing in their chairs. sufficiently nearly -awake to hear the Hateful knock on the door if it should ever come. But it was plain that the jury was out for the night and per haps forever so far as the Garcia case was concerned. There was to be no message to Garica" that night.
 But it turned out that that musical outburst was only in the course of preparation for another. supreme and final effort to find a verdict which was returned shortly after II o'clock. The music had soothed the savage breasts of the minority and a verdict was agreed upon. It was a compromise, finding Garcia guilty but recommend ing him to the mercy of the court.
 The trial of Garcia was one of the most interesting of the term. The crime for which he was indicted was committed near Cave Crek station nearly two months ago He had been employed as a camp rustler in a camp not far from that of C. D. Amos. There had been some trouble. Amos having demanded that the other camp should be moved.
 On the morning of the assault Gar cia accompanied by a couple of other men arrived at Amos camp while the latter was at breakfast Precisely what happened there is a subject of dispute But when the smoke had cleared away, Amos had two or three stab wounds. one of them in the throat and Garcia lay some distance away with bullet from a Luger through him. Amos arrived in town the fol- lowing day bringing Garcia with him. IL was not certain that the Mexican would live and he was taken to a hos pitaL Amos was also in bad shape and he was taken to the home of his brother near Mesa.
 Warrants were issued for both men. At the preliminary hearing more than a week later, Amos was discharged and Garcia was held to the grand jury. Amos testified that the attack was made upon him without warning and that his revolver was out of reach at the time. The Mexican he said threw himself upon him and tried to add to the stab wounds which he had already made. Amos in the struggle kept working nearer to the place where his revolver lay and at length succeeded in getting it. He could not shoot at first. but finally he managed to put a bullet into the Mexican when the | latter got up and started to run away l
 The Mexican said the initiative in l the fight was taken by Amos and that l the latter shot at him four times be- ! fore he hit him and that he was then i some distance away and running. The | fact that the Mexican was at the camp | at all was against him, and there | seemed a prepOnderance of testimony ! in support of the statement of Amos | that he had made the first hostile | move. He was probably right, how | ever. about the place of the shooting | Amos had fired the revolver while l they were struggling on the ground l but that shot did not take effect. He ] fired two or three shots afterward and | the one that hit was probably fired ] from Q long disance.
 At one point in the trial the serv- l ices of two interpreters at the same | time were required. one of the wit l nesses was Bernardo Bridegan, a Spanish Basque, who has never learn 1 ed any other language. The Basque l people living in the Pyrenees pre- | serve the same manners and customs and language which they had long be- fore Caesar invaded Gaul, for the Gauls long before that time had con- quered the natives of what was after ward called Gallia. Those who lived | in the heights of the Pyrenees or who | took refuge there from the invaders ! were undisturbed and have since re- ! mained undisturbed by the tides of | civilization which have swept around l them.
 Their language is as distinct from | that of the Spanish on the south or | that of the French on the north as if | it were Arabic or Chinese. A major | ity of the Basques who emigrate never | learn any other language and Bridegan l had no other. But there was another Basque, Pedro Eusila. who could | speak Spanish. He had learned it as sailor in Cervera's fleet for he had been at the disaster of Santiago Bay
 He accordingly translated Bridegan's remarks into Spanish and J. 4. Per erie converted them into English for the edificatiOn of the court and jury
 The arguments in the case were end ed by the middle of the afternoon. the Jury was instructed and retired.
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