Arizona republican., 1909-05-06
BLUFF CARRIED
 ID THE LIMIT Then SaIazar the "Sheep King Admitted His Guilt HIS EXPENSIVE PERSISTENCE RamIez's Apparently Plain Case of Burglary F Furnished the Jury Food for Thought For a Full Day of Eight Hours.
HIS EXPENSIVE PERSISTENCE

Dolores Salazar or Salazu as he call ed himself, kept up his foolish bluff to the eleventh hour and fifty-n minute, and then weakened after he had put the territory to the greatest possible expense He had been indict- ed for issuing fictitious checks. He is the man who had represented to the Boston store that he was the owner of vast flocks of sheep in the north and had practically unlimited credit at the banking house of Babbitt Bros. of Flagstaff He drew seceral checks up on them in favor of the store in pay ment of large quantities of fineries for a woman of whom he had become enamored. At length the checks were returned with the information that Salazar had no account there and had never had one. It was also known about the same time that he had never been the owner of a sheep though he had been associated with sheep for years in the capacity of herder.
 In the meantime he had retained an attorney and had secured his fee by giving him a mortgage on 500 of his many sheep. The attorney soon learn ed that all the sheep owned by Sal agar were at that moment grazing on the verdant slopes which descend gen tly from castles in Spain He did not record the mortgage but withdrew from the case.
 When the imaginary character of Salazars sheep was pretty well estab lished he was about to set up a pro prietary claim to an interest in vast herds of cattle but this claim was not perfected and he fell back upon his sheep ownership.
 He represented to another firm of attorneys that his partner in the sheep business was one Arros who was hid ing them out in the north to avoid an attachment; if Arros were here he could very quickly show that the sheep were creatures of flesh and blood and wool.
 The establishment of that fact, though it would not establish the fact of a bank account at Babbitt Bros. was more or less important and after the indictment of SalaZar a subpoena was issued for Arros. Deputy Sheriff Olea chased all around through the north and finally located him
 Arros came in yesterday morning. A jury had been impaneled and the case was ready for trial but when Salazar saw Arros he weakened and pleaded guilty Arros said afterward that he had never seen Salazar but once and did not know him.
 Jesus Ramirez was yesterday found guilty of burglary in the second de- gree. It took the jury eight hours to reach this verdict though the case seemed so plain that the Attorney dis pensed with arguments.
 A few weeks ago Jose Lopez who had just come down from Congress with his accumulated wages was sleep ing in room in the southern part of town one afternoon when he was awakened by some one Investigating his pockets He seized the intruder by the arm and called for help. He could not hold him until help arrived but | one answering his call got close | enough to see Ramirez running away. The burglar had cut his way into the room through a wire screen. Lopez reported the crime to Constable Mur- phy and in company with the officer he identified Ramirez at the Porto 1 Rico saloon. Ramirez begged that he | be not prosecuted and in the presence of the officer admitted that he had been in the room but he denied that he had taken anything.
 On this testimony the case went to the jury in the morning. At three | o'clock in the afternoon. the jury was still undecided and wanted to hear the | testimony of the constable again. II was read from notes of the court re- | porter and in fifteen minutes a verdict | of burglary in the second degree was agreed upon.
 | In the case of AXel W Hallenbore against the Greene Consolidated . Cop l per company. Ernest w. Lewis, lately | appointed judge for the fifth judicia district withdrew his appearance as | counsel for the plaintiff. Similar or