Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-05-18
JONES BEGINS SUIT FOR COLLECTION
 IF FEE
ASKS JUDGMENT FOR S1,6oos FOR DEFENDING SLAYER or J.
 W. WEAVER.
INTERESTING CASE REVIEWED
BRILLIANT DEFENSE OF LOCAL ATTORNEY FRESH IN MINDS
 OF GLOBE PEOPLE.

In district court yesterday, Wiley E. Jones, through his attorneys, Stoneman & Jacobs, commenced an action against Sarah E. Reed, otherwise known as Sarah E. Kavanaugh, and still other wise known as Sarah Scott. to recover judgment for $l,50o, alleged to be due as attorneys fees.
 The plaintiff, in his complaint, all legss that on November i last, Mrs. Emma Hessler and Emmitt Gaynor, brother and sister, and daughter and son respectively of the defendant, wsre arrested and held to answer charge of murdering J. W. Weaver in the hall of the City hotel operated by Mrs. Reed Kavanaugh-Seott and that the defcrd ant, in deep solicitude for the welfa. 3 of her children, retained and employo,l the plaintiff, Wiley F.. Jones, to defend the accused, for stipulated fec of sl, 300. The ease went to trial, and after one of the most brilliant defenses ever put up by an attorney in the anuais of Gila county the jury returned yer diet of not gu lty, and the accused were discharged and given their liberty. The complaint goes on to state that the plaintiff has been unsuccessful in col lecting the $500 agreed upon or any portion thereof, and asks the court for judgment for the amount and costs of action.
 The details of the tragedy leading up to this action are still fresh in the memories of Silver Belt readers. On election night, November 4, Mrs. Hess Ter, married woman, shot and instant ly killed J. W. Weaver, stage driver. The tragedy was witnessed by her brother, Emmett Gaynor, who was standing, it is alleged, at the end of the hall when the fatal shot was fired. Mrs. Hessler did not deny the shoot ing. She set up a defense that the man she had killed made an assault upon her, and that when she fired the shot Weaver, grasping her in firm em- brace, was trying to force her into an unoccupied room. A few days after the killing the Hessler woman and her brother were given a hearing before Justice Hnson Thomas. and for want of evidence were discharged. At the session of the grand jury for the No yember term of court sufficient evidence was secured to warrant indictments and Mrs. Hessler and Gaynor were again taken into custody to answer charges of murder in the first degree. By many it was believed that Mrs. Hessler and her brother, Emmett Gaynor, had en. ticed Weaver to the City hotel for the purpose of staying him in revenge for the testimony he had given against a brother of the Gaynors which landed him in the penitentiary, convicted of crimina,ly assaulting daughter of Weaver. Just the nature of the evi- dence before the grand jury was never made public, but it was of character leading the district attorney to believe that a conviction could be obtained. Wiley Jones, at the earnest solicitation of Mrs. Scott, and by promise of fee of $500, entered into the case with a determination that courted admiration, and by his wonderful brilliancy and in telligent manner in handling the case, succeeded in securing verdict of not guilty. The newspapers throughout the entire territory were loud in their praises of Mr. Jones and until this action was commenced it was thought the meagre fee had long ago been paid.
 It is rumored that the case just