Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-13
ATTORNEY GETS
 HOT RECEPTION
CGlobe Belt.l

AlIcT II EcSlucuCC Ol dbOul d year and a half in Globe, Attorney F. C. Jacobs of the law firm of Stoneman l & Jacobs had just about made up his mind that the stirring incidents pic tured by Alfred Henry Lewis in his famous WoRyille tales were either the creatures of imagination, or that wolfville days. if they ever did exist were a part of the unwritten and for gotten history of Arizona. It is rath- CT humiliating for him after a resi- dence in Arizona almost long enough | to put him in the pioneer class, to learn that the cowboys of Arizona are pretty much the same as they were in the early days and that the same spirit of deviitry possesses many of them, although the occasions to exercise it are far less frequent than they were in the days of Wolf vile and Red Dog.
 Several days ago MT. Jacobs went down to Indian Hot Springs to con cluds a rest he had started to take there week before. When he ar rived at Fort Thomas Saturday morn ing, he was waited on by a man who gave his name as D. O. Thnrlo and
 who. inofrmed the attorney that he wanted him to defend him in the jus tice court the following Monday when
 he would be tried for sending an an- onymous letter to a young woman who resides at Fort Thomas. Mir. Ja- cobs acquiesced and told him that he would be in court on Monday after
 noon at 2 o'clock, the time set for the trial.
 The attorney, defendant. and Jus tice of the Peace George W. Wyatt were there promptly at two o'clock on Monday and so was the complaining witness and large number of spec tators At the time the Globe lawyer did not take notice of the fact that most of the spectators were in full dress" The attorney immediately demanded a jury trial, and a panel of eighteen was provided. From these 3 jury of seven was finally selected 1 to try the case. The complaint was read to them. which stated that the defendant "wilfully. knowingly, unlaw- | fully maliciously and feloniously did violate section 229. of the penal code of the revised statute of 1901 of Ari- zona territory by way of writing an anonymous letter, in said letter threat ening to publish a libel for the defa- nation of the family of" etc.
 The letter was introduced by the prosecution, but when it came to iden- tifying the handwriting the postmas- ter failed to qualify, as did the rail road agent, both of whom were there for the purpose of making good as handwriting experts. and the letter was ruled out of evidence. Several witnesses testified and the Globe law yer made an eloquent appeal to the jury. which. after being out for few minutes, returned a verdict of not l guilty. The verdict was not well re- ceived, but the attorney failed to no- tice its reception, although he trem- bled slightly when he asked the court and the puzzled lawyer went over to and the spectators to have drink.
 No one responded to the invitation
 the hotel, which happened to be con-
 ducted by the complaining witness.
 Three or four cow-punchers corral ed the lawyer in the barroom and
 talked real nasty to him about ais part in getting the defendant out of
 the scrape and Jacobs grew more elo- quent than he ever did in his life try ling to square himself. Of course he did not know whether or not the cow lpunchers would use the smoke wag-
 ons that were stuck in their belts, and
 he wasn't taking any chances. He finally made his getaway and went ov- CT to Alexander Bros store, where
 the ex-defendant was waiting for him
 with his fee.
 Suddenly a volley of shots was
 heard and things began to look dark and gloomy and Mir Jacobs wished
 heartily that he was back in that dear old Globe again Mir. Cresswell, who
 runs the store, went to the door with a few guns in his hands and threat
 ened to shoot the first man that made
 bum poke" Mir. Jacobs client was
 busy in the meanwhile writing out a
 check and the attorney states that his
 (the clients) hand never faltered as
 he wrote out the check. He maintains
 dignffed silence as to the condition lof his own hands as he received the
 bit of paper, although he admits thai his feet felt as though he had beer standing in a draft. The ex-defendant after the coughing up process, walked to the door of the store, with both oi his hands touching iron, and the
 vengeance seekers before the portals gradually drifted away.
 I After said dwindling Mir. Jacobs
 made his way back to the hosiery and
 waited for the train, which although it was On time, was a long time com ling. In teIling the story MT. Jacobs states that the complaining witness | had fnterceded with the mob on his Il behalf laying the blame on the jury and the lawyer has not yet figured out how he and the jury escaped. I MT. Jacobs will be very careful to l avoid business the next time he goes to take a rest. especially if it be on the banks of the Gila, where he COW I boys still live close to nature and I never read Alfred Henry Lewis ol I Stewart Edward White.