Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-11
WATTS ID LEARN HIS FINAL
 DISPOSITION
EXPECTED ACQUISITION FROM PHOENIX FAILS TO ARRIvE
 YESTERDAY.
U. s. DEPUTY MARSHAL COMES
PRISONER STILL MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE AND EXPECTS TO
 CLEAR HIMSELF.

Everybody WAS playing a waiting stunt in the Alessandro Ruberto game last night, all hands waiting for eth CT a wire from Washington or requisi- ton papers from Phoenix.
 Neither came.
 But there will be something doing to- night, or, at the latest, tomorrow.
 If the long expected acquisition pa pers are to come at all, they will be in tonight. If the government has really given up it's claims to the famous pris- oner at the county jail, that fact will be known today.
 The battle between the United States and the sovereign state of Tennessee will be decided tomorrow--no later. Friday mornings Silver Belt will an nounce whether Ruberto, the exceeding ly interesting Italian confidence man, is to go to New York or to Memphis to learn the first installment of his fate. Whichever gets him first, the other will be found waiting for him at the door,
 Last nights train brought to Globe D. N. Willits, United States deputy marshal. MT. willits was soon in easa- est consultation with Postmaster Sur gis. Together they called at the coun- ty jail, and Ruberto was let out of the steel cage to confer with willits, Sur Igis taking charge of the cage for the while and cheerfully paying 50 cents to the kangaroo court for his intrusion into the quiet of the county s prisoners. ,Ruberto and Willits held a very inter esting conversation for a while at the outer door of the jail. What was said and decided upon, was not given out, But it was ascertained last night, be- yond the peradventure of doubt, that all hands were as much at sea as ever. Nothing definite as to the ultimate disposition of Ruberto's case will be known before this evening. Beyond the arrival of MT. Willits, the only detail of interest brought out yesterday was the receipt of the fol lowing letter:
 Frontenac, Kan.,. February 5,
 Sheriff J. H. Thompson-We, too, have been bitten of the sum of $25e from the Florence Distillery company or the agent who gave the name of Alessandro Riberti, short, stout man who had scar across the chin. If there is any way of getting anything, you can get part of it yourself. We remain, yours truly, Italian Cooperation Association.
 The Italian Cooperation association I is duly incorporated concern, for the letter, although signed by none of it's officers, came duly signed, just as though it was just out of notary public s of fee.
 1T don't see how the governor can give extradition papers, said Ruberto to the Silver Belt yesterday. The requisition calls for me on charge of forgery. They could no moro hold me for forgery in Memphis than they could hold me here on that charge, and you know that I was discharged on both of the forgery charges that they brought against me here. Of course when drummers go out on the road they promise all sorts of things to ge, the trade; that is part of the business and they all do it. But as to forgery 1 that is another question. When a man signs note with his own hand and with his eyes open, that is not forgery, and there is no law that will make il
 forgcry.'