Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-04
CASES BROUGHT
 AGAINST SALOON
 ARE DISMISSED
Court Room Crowded To Doors As Preliminary Skirmish
 With nti-Saloon League lsI Fought Out.

| The complaint Of the Anti-Saloon 1 League against Steve Perazich, Jerry VueoTich and Charles Tnrnerose on
 the charge of selling liquor to minors had 2 brief career in the justice courts i yesterday afternoon. Thanks to a writ of severance accedeG to by both
 defense and prosecution, the case of Steve Perazich. only, came up fo- actual trial. After legal sparring lasting about half an hour. this case
 was dismissed for want of prosecu- ton. Two hours later J. s. Warren. in whose name the complaint had ap- peared. walked into Justice Burdick S office and asked that the complaints against the two other alleged of- lenders be dropped.
 The league attributes the sudden collapse of it's prosecution to the fact that District Attorney J. s. Williams faled 10 appear as scheduled to con duct the >se f>' the territory. There are those in the city who say that Warren was scared out of the affair by the possibility of having to pay the costs of the second and third trials in the event of the prosecution's losing it's cases. After the case had been dismissed yesterday, the attorneys for the defense fought har dto settle the costs upon the complaining witness, but after listening to the debate of the attorneys upon the point Justice Bur. dick decided against this motion.
 The court of Justice High. where the trial was held. was crowded to the doors. The leaguers were there in Ioree, an" there was a good sprinkliae or saloon keepers interspersed here and there in .he crowd R. c. Stan- ford, special counsel for the league. opened the case by asking the court For continuance until next Monday. He declared that Williams had been unable to get over from Tombstone because he had missed a train. He said that he had been authorized by the district attorney to handle the case, bu' that his employers had re- fused to take up the prosecution with out the presence of Williams. Attorneys for the defence. n. G. Stricl1ler and Joe Morrison. moved for immediate trail or dismissal of the case. Both insisted that the defend ant was entitled to speedy trial, and both declared that the complaints had been too long held up. Both protest ed emphatically that the employers of Stanford had no right to dictate the lime and manner If a territorial case whatever the. motives might be They demanded that the district at. torney's authorized representative should either act in the case or drop it
 The justice ruled that the defence s contention was idst one. He gave the prosecution the option Of prose cutting the complaints or of having the case dropped. He declined however. to assess the costs upon Warren on the grounds that there was nothing to show beyond a doubt that the com Plaint was malicious.
 The trial of Vucovfch was then set for this afternoon, at which time is was though Williams could be pres. ent
 The surprise came two hours later when J. ;. Warren, the signer of the complaint which had brought the whole affair about, went with the league counsel to Justice Burdick's s office and asked that the complaint in full be withdrawn. The motion was made by Warren himself