Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-05-11
Defense of Accused Embez- zler Made Clear in All
 Day Hearing
NAVE BREAKS DOWN
 DURING THE TRIAL
Jury Quickly Secured and Entire Day Taken in
 Hearing Case

For almost the entire day yesterday,
 the case of John c. PhillipsOn, accused | of embezzlement, was before the district
 court. Numerous witnesses for both the prosecution and the defense were on
 the stand during the day and when
 court closed shortly before 6 o'clock
 yesterday afternoon, practically all of
 the testimony had been introduced.
 The count upon which Phillipson is
 being tried is that charging him with
 having embezZled some 300 shares of
 stock in the Gila County Angora Goat
 company, belonging to Mrs. Anna Neal,
 this case being a retrial of the case
 upon which Phillipson was convicted,
 at the last term of court.
 As the jury panel had been secured
 Monday afternoon only short time
 was required yesterday to select the
 jury from the panel, the body being
 made up as follows: w. D. Kendrick,
 P. J. Cole, Jr., G. w. Huntziger, Ken
 meth Clayton, T. F. Vincent, w. Meyer,
 B. F. Reynolds, H. M. Fugate, James Lightfoot, B. McAllister, Dayton En-
 his and L. T. Dale.
 When the case was taken up by the
 prosecution, Mrs. Anna Neal was placed
 on the stand. She testified that she had placed the goat stock in Phillipson $
 hands, and that neither the stock nor its
 equivalent in money had been returned to her.
 J. k. Barnett testified regarding the
 reissuance of the stock in question
 Frank Frakes afterwards testifying that
 he received the stock from Phillipson who claimed to be an original stock
 holder in the company and the owner
 of the stock in question:
 Claims Payment Made Sheriff Thompson was also placed or the stand. He testified that he arrested Phillipson in Edmonton, Canada, an, that on the way back to Globe. Phil lipson claimed that he had paid Mrs Neal for the stock, giving her $6OO il cash and two checks.
 When the case was taken up by At torneys Mace and McKillop for tn ] defense, it became apparent that Phil lipsOn s defense would be that he hat paid Mrs. Neal for the stock
 The chief witness for the defens was Frank Ewing, who stated that Mrs Neal had told him of having receive payment from Phillipson for the stock D. T. Crumpler and number of othe \ witnesses were placed on the stand il an effort to substantiate this conten tiOn. Crumpler became confused O cross examination and his direct test : mony was shattered to some extent. Phillipson was also placed on tn stand to show in what manner he ha secured the services of several witne, 5 ses. On cross examination by Distric Attorney Shute he admitted to the jur that he had been tried before on < similar charge and that Q verdict c 7 guilty had been returned against hin Nave Collapses
 Shortly before the session ended, A torney r. s. Nave broke down under tn strain of the case and recess of seN eral minutes was taken before he wa < able to again take part in the defens & of Phillipson.
 B. J. Barron as witness for til & prosecution on rebuttal stated that Phi M lipson came to him and asked for check which he had given a woman this city, claiming that it was anon Y the effects of the Consolidated Realt # 54