Arizona republican., 1910-04-27
ACQU|TTAL
 IF OLIVER Jury's leniency Was a Bad
 Thing For Him Rt-ARREslEO FOR FORGERY
Would Be Jail Break CT However Prepossessing, Has a Long Record of Crime Including At Least One Homicide

When the jury in the case of Harry Oliver. charged with 'injurying" the jail by trying to saw out of it. i'm pressed by the winning appearance of that young man and moved to com junction against blighting his inno- cent life. found him not guilty yester- day afternoon, it permitted him to jump out of the frying pan into the fire. Perhaps he would have landed ultimately in the fire anyway.
 When the verdict of acquittal was announced to the surprise of the de- fendant and his attorney. B. F Marks. and to the consternation of the district attorneys office. Judge Kent, also evil dently amazed. asked if there were any other charges against the defendant. Sheriff Hayden arose and said there were. He drew a paper from his pocket, a warrant from Los Angeles. charging Oliver witht forgery. The sheriff added that there were six oth- CT charges of a similar nature against him. He accordingly took possession of his prisoner and as they went down stairs Oliver admitted that he had left some unsettled financial affairs at Los Angeles. but he thought he could ar range them on his arrival. When he learned of the elaborate preparations which had been made for his return to the coast which he hurriedly left last December. he said he would waive ex- tradition.
 On the Local Horizon.
 Oliver first came into the local eye one morning last December when a young Englishman. Wally Greenfield. appeared at the office of the sheriff and said that his roommate had robbed him the night before. They had come z together a day or two before that from Los Angeles and had taken lodging at rooming house. Greenfield said that when he awoke that morning he found the door locked and found that he had been despoiled of s200 in gold and some toilet articles.
 He gave a good description of Oliver and that day he was captured at Prescott on a telegram from the sherifrs office. He was brought back and bound to the grand jury.
 Greenfield. who is a structural iron worker, found employment at his trade on the National Bank of Arizona build ing and when there was no more to do there he went to Globe. Running out of work there he wrote the sheriff thai as he could make sS a day ne could not afford to finger in the territory until the April term. He could make several times $200 before that time. and he was going ito St. Louis where there was plenty of work He could not therefore afford to stay and prosecute Oliver
 Search for His Record.
 Sheriff. Hayden had already formed the opinion that Oliver was an ac- complished crook, and that he must be badly wanted elsewhere. Believing that he could not be convicted in the absence of Greenfield. the sheriff flood ed the country with photographs of the prisoner and descriptions of him. He sent them to half a dozen penitentiaries in the east and in California From all of them he received replies that the face of oliver seemed strangely famiii- ar but in the absence of Bertiiion measurements, he could not Dc defih- itely placed
 When these photographs reached Los Angeles they were seized upon With the avidity with which Esau used to devour snakes in a Phoenix streef carnival. Oliver was wanted there very badly. He had passed seven forged cheeks and for one of them the Pinkertons were willing 10 spend many times its face value for his recovery bank belong ing to the American Bankers associa- ton in that case had been the loser and it is the policy of the association to pursue those who swindle it's mem bers. at any cost In the other cases private parties had been the losers But this particular check drawn on the Security Savings bank, bearing the name of Samuel Page. depositor, had been cashed by the hardware firm of Howard & Reynolds for $21.
 After all this information had come into the possession of Sheriff Hayden, Oliver had engaged in an attempt with Daley and Edwards to break jail. The sheriff hopless of convicting Oliver on the robbery charge believed that he yould be convicted on the charge of in iuring the jail. and so informed his california correspondents He advised them. however, in the event of such slip as occurred yesterday. to have their papers in readiness and to be prepared to apply for a reauisition. Oliver knew nothing of this.
 Worse Than uselsss Crime.
 In the absence Of Greenfield, the grand jury did not return bill against