Arizona republican., 1909-11-17
NlLANuEvl PRDfTED
 BY THE JURY SYSTEM
HIS UNEXPECTED ,AcouiTTAL OF
 BURGLARY CHARGE.
Remarks of the Court Construed to
 Have Been in oisapprovai.

The American jury system will nc doubt receive the hearty endorsement ment of Guadalupe villanueva, who was tried yesterday and acquitted of the charge of burglary. When the jury brought in the verdict. Judge Kent said to the defendant: You are discharged; the jury has found you not guilty. though do not know how. Let this be warning to you, for if you are ever brought before me again il will go very hard with you"
 Villanueva was indicted for the burglary of the New York Cash store at Temoe one morning the proprietor of the store. F. L. Thew. found two windows in the rear of the store broken and discovered that a consider able quantity of goods was missing. One man had seen Villanueva fin the rear of the store the night before and another saw him going upstairs in a building in which he roomed carry a large bundle.
 The next morning he was seen on the street wearing a new suit of clothes. and later he appeared with the
  CTS of another suit He was soon after arrested by Marshal Brown and his rooms were searched. In one of them were found concealed in a gunny sack a quantity of mems wearing apparel, among which were the trousers be- longing to the the coat and vest he had on. a
 These clothes. as well as all the other articles found. were identified by MT. Thew as part of his stock This was the case of the territory and seemed so we'll connected that it was thought that any trial of the case would be q mere matter of form.
 Since the preliminary examination at which Villanueva was held. MT. Thew has died. Two of the clerks of the store were summoned as witnesses for the purpose of identifying the stolen goods. When they were asked if the exhibits were goods that had been carried in the store, they replied that they thought they were, but on cross examination they said that they could not be absolutely sure of that The jury evidently held their want of certainty on this point to be a reason able doubt which they resolved in favor of the defendant. His attorney wisely kept him off the stand so that he was not required to explain such awkward situations as the possession of all that array of mems furnishing goods. He is now prepared h claim the exhib- it's
 Manuel MazOn. q one-armed Mexi- can who had been indicted for the robbery O. Yaqui at Mesa was ac- quilted. but Caterino Chavez who had been held for burglary at Mesa was convicted
 F. C. Gray. who had been indicted for burglary and pleaded not guilty yesterday withdrew his plea and waived time for sentence. He was given two years and six months at Yuma, the sentence dating from Sep tember l7, the time of his arrest Gray is an ex-convict as well as a convict. Ben Williams pleaded guilty to burg lary in the second degree and will be sentenced this morning Williams is a coIored man. His offense was the selling of the furniture of a woman with whom he had been lodging One day in her absence he stripped the house of everything worthy carrying of and sold it at d second hand store A special venire of ten was ordered for this morning.