Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-04
FALSE RECORD
FREES SISSON
FROM PRISON
Yuma. Attorney FIimfIams
CLERK Of Graham County,
According to Report Freed
Man May Be Returned.


That William II Sisson was released
from the pen(tentiary as the result
OF a buncoe game played on the
district clerk CT Graham county
Judge Kent and the attorney general.
q tine territory there seems now 10
De little doubt and that Sisson will
either be returned 10 prison 10 com
plete his sentence or placed on trial
again on the original charge CT muir
der is very likely.
Attorney General Wright who was
in Bisbee yesterday. gave out the ex-
PLANTATION given by CLERK Chambers.
of Graham county, as TO how he was
induced 70 certify 10 an incomplete
record OF his court II seems that
Attorney Hess. of Yuma. who was
representing Sisson. procured a GER
titled copy OF the court record made
during the trial Of Sisson for muir
der With the certified copy Of the
record tie clerk also gave TO the
attorney a carbon copy Of the orig
NAL. Some time afterwards Hess
called on the clerk for another Ger
titled copy of the record saving that
the one received before had been
lost The clerk informed~him that
il would be impossible for him to
prepare another copy IN time for the
attorney TO leave on the train next
morning, as he desired Then the
attorney. stated that he had the car
bon copy previously given him. sug-
gested trat the clerk attach his
certificate 10 that. which the clerk
proceeded 10 do. without again com
pairing il with the record This Is
his explanation Of how the words. Il
plead not guilty disappeared from
the COPY OF the record. though they
appear in the court record.
The following dispatch from Phoe-
nix is 10 the point:
The attorney general mas come into
possession Of Information that plea
OF not guilty was entered by sissou
ar his trial and that IL was properly
recorded by Frank Dysart. who was
then clerk for he district court for
Graham county. The attorney gener-
al has accordingly written TO the Of
fee of the clerk Of the supreme court
for the copy OF the record which ae-
companied the application for the
writ He says that he is going 20 I
slit the matter to the bottom and as
certain who is to blame for what he /
I.-fs..r- ---, ca s-g.-;,,,,- -ss s,..., %
justice. But il there has been a mis-
there seems no wav by I
which Sisson can he restored TO the .
The record accompanying the apDli- I
cation relating TO the plea or The
absence Of the plea is as follows:
% 'Sisson. stand up. What is your plea
10 the Indictment. guilty or not gull
tye" On motion Of counsel for the
territory and on consent Of the de-
fendant. it is ordered that the cause
be and IS hereby set for trial on
Wednesday May 10. 1905, at
O'Clock"
The copy of the record was made
and certified by W r. Chambers. the
present clerk Of the court. Though.
according to the copy. Sisson was
asked TO plead, it does not appear
that he did plead and the hiatus he
tween ;he question addressed to Sis
son and the motion for the setting Of
the trial by Attorney John Hess OF
Yuma. who presented the application
for the writ. Mr.. Hess said that i'm
Sisson his attorneys. Edwards
and Mcfarland. entered n pro
test against the taking OF the de-
PENDANTS plea AZ that time and in
the ensuing heated argument, The fact