Arizona republican., 1909-08-13
PRELIMINARY HEARING
 OF FRANK THOMPSON
IT VAS NOT QUITE CONCLUDED
 YESTERDAY
The Testimony Was Generally Favor
 able to the Defendant.

The preliminary hearing of Frank | Thompson charged with the embezzle-
 ment of land scrip of the value of $6OOO. the property of officials of the Ray Consolidated company and the 1 Utah Copper company, was begun in
 Justice Parker's court and had not been concluded when court adjourned late in the day. There are two or three witnesses to be examined for the defense.
 The defense seems to be relying up- on two points. One is the irrespOn- sibility of Thompson at the time of,
 and before, the alleged embezzlement
 and the other is that no one has suf- l fered from his act and thai no effort was made by him to profit by it. The first witness was Deputy Sher- iff C. B. Wood who presented the
 scrip which Deputy Sheriff Adams | had brought back from Denver at the time he returned with the defendant.
 This was identified by General Man ager Stenger of the Ray company as the scrip which he had sent to the firm of Hildreth and Thompson and Deputy Sheriff Adams identified it as llle pIbptIlS WHICH ndu Dteil luTIt u over to him by the Denver authOrili'.
 MT. Stenger said that he sent the scrip to Phoenix by Phillip Wiseman on July 10. MT. Wiseman was on his way to Los Angeles and the witness did not see him afterward. The wit ness expected an acknowledgment of the receipt of the scrip by the firm
 but received none within the next day or two. At first he attributed his failure to hear from the attorneys to the dcranged condition of the wire
 but on July IA he came to town. That was on Sunday. Learning that Mir Hildrcth was out of town he went to the residence of Mir. Thompson, but did not see him. He saw his cousin. William Robins n. who said that MT I Thompson was within. Through k iDb- inson, NIT. Stenger made an appoint mcnt to meet Elr. Thompson at the Hotel Adams that night. MT. Thomp- son did not appear.
 After the return ot Mir. lIildreth from the coast. and the disappearance Of the defen6ant and the discovery that the snip was missing. the wit ness began tu take steps to lorate AIt utAtnuduL dllQ lD UElIlE tDfful HIS apprehension, resulting finally in his arrest at Denver.
 The next witness was Hfr. Hildrcth wfC slid that the scrip vIs delivered to him by MT. Wiscmau on C.e eve of his departure for Los Angeles and though it was to he flied at once. he discoveredt that the narOraliza ton I.a2crs of Mir. Ste1Ser, which should have accompanied it were missing Nothing could be done. Mir. Hildrcth made a notation of that defect and the matter was turned over to MT. Thompson to be attended to and he supposed that it would be done by him on the receipt of the naturaliza- tion papers.
 On the return of the witness from Los Angeles ten days later he learh- cd that the filing had not been made He found the naturalization papers along with ether documents on the desk of NIT. Thompson and later he learned that he had left town on tie morning of that day
 On cross examination by Thomas J Prescott for the detcnsc. Mir Hildreth said that there was other scrip in tho 'iiiNt btibHblhE Ab tue lllil bl great value than that that had been taken. part of it was found on his desk and part on the desk of MT. Thompson. who it might have been supposed woVld have taken that also since 1t could have been disposed of more easily. than the scrip he had taken.
 This was the most important testi- mony on the part of the territory The defendant went on the stand for himself. He said that he had very indistinct recollection of events previous to his departure and he had no recollection at all of taking the scrip He had in mind only one thing. and that was that he wanted to rr-Icrl IL rA.n. .1,-,Inr- r,..,--