Arizona republican., 1910-06-03
PAROLED CONVICT
 WANTS TO KNOW
THE REASONS FOR HIS BEING IN
 THE PENITENTlARY.
Steve Callahan, Brother of Former
 Member of British Parliament.

In his effort to find out why he was
 sent to the penitentiary, from which he
 had just been released on parole. Steve l Callahan is in danger of returning to
 that institution. Two years ago Cal
 lahan, who was a blacksmith at Mesa,
 was arrested for trying to shoot a
 stage driver there. The trouble was
 over a woman of whom Callahan was 1 enamored.
 After his indictment on the charge
 of assault with intent to commit mur-
 der a plea of insanity was entered. A | jury was appointed to look into his
 mental condition and it decided that he was sane He was thereupon tried
 under-the indictment and was con-
 victed and given an indeterminate sen- | tence which might have kept him in
 the penitentiary for ten years. l He had not been there long before his. friends began trying to secure his release. Among his friends was A. H. 1 Davidson. who knew something of Callahan's family in England. His 1 name, by the way. is not Callahan, but Barry-and he has brother who was a member of the house of commons. Why Callahan took that name is not known But at length the parole was grant ed, among the signers of the petition being Judge Kent, before whom Cal Iahan had been tried. Callahan was released and arrived in town last Sat urday. Ii had been understood that he would go to Fl Paso, where a job in blacksmith shop had been found for him. But he had other ideas in his mind when MT. Davidson spoke to him about going to Fl Paso. He wanted in the first place to go to Mesa to See if the stage driver whom he had tried tc kill had survived the ravages of time; he also wanted to inquire why he had been sent to the penitentiary.
 He started to Mesa. but Mir. David- son overlook him at Tempe and brought him back
 Then he set out on his other quest information regarding his residence in the penitentiary. He expected to get that from Judge Kent and he was en- countered on Saturday by a reporter for The Republican in the court house plaza. The reporter did not know him and Callahan refused to give his name. He said though that he had just got out of the penitentiary where he had been for two years; that he had been sent there without a trial and he was waiting to see Judge Kent to find out about it.
 He did not see the judge that day or any other day until late on Wednes- day afternoon, when he suddenly ap- peared in chambers where the judge was sitting alone. He opened the con- versatiOn wildly and he grew more wild as he talked. The judge sent word to the sheriffs office and Sheriff Hayden appeared. Callahan went on with his story, or rather he rambled on with his inquiry regarding his penitentiary residence.
 He said that he remembered having been brought from Mesa to the county jail on some sort of charge and that Marshal Peterson of Mesa came down to see him. The sheriff admitted the marshal to his cell and the two off cers dragged him. He remembered nothing after that until he recovered consciousness at Yuma. Many of the observations made about persons and things were unprintable, and at the conclusion of the conference the sheriff took charge of him and locked him up.. Just what will be done with Cal Iahan is uncertain.