Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-01
LEGAL ADVICE
 FROM LUNAI|c
Men Who Followed It Are Very Naturally in
 Jail

Listening to the advice of crazy man induced Isaac West and Abraham Stone. two Finlanders. to enter a plea of not guilty to charge of being drunk on the streets in a case against them in Judge T. D. Burdick's court, officers declare. The men denied that this was So even when it came out in the trial yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, but officers he ard the demented men cautioning them not to plead guilty, telling Jherl that if they did. they would be sent to he penitentiary for life.
 West and Stone are foreigners aGf apparently do not "sabe" the AmeTi- can judicial system, so apparently they fell for the loony cor handed them in jail. where they were locked in the same cell with a man who Is in confinement. pending an investi. gation to his sanity. West and Stone were arrested Saturday night about II o'clock on Brewery gulch on the charge of being drunk. They remain ed in jail until Monday morning when they were brought into the court to enter a plea.
 As two officers had seen the men iG a drunken condition. a ripple of sur. prise ran around the court room when both entered pleas of not guilty, dog gedly maintaining that they were not guilty and that they had not been drunk. Both were put under bond of SEQ each and they went. back to jail to remain until yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock wheE the case was cal led.
 On the stand yesterday they admit ted that they had had a few drinks and cited the fact that they remem- bered having been arrested as proof of their not hav.a; been dunk. Their oniy witness, saloon keeper, admit ted that they were not sober" or feers McRea and Thomas testified that the men were drunk.
 Taking into consideration that the men, unversed in the courts of Amer lea. had followed the advice Of an ir- responsible. insane man, the court fined the defendants the cost Of the case. At that the the advice Mas proved costly. for they vii spend about twenty days each in jail. The plea of not guilty resulted in greatly increasing the costs of the case over what they would have been had they pleaded guilty when they were first arraigned
 The demented man, whose advice is said to have been followed by the foreigners, is Morris Stiles, who was taken to Tombstone yesterday after. noon for examinalien by the county sanity board IL was feared that his 'emCntla might ,aks E. violent form and 'ie vas t~.-. iit:a Cus:4dy uutIl he could be taken tO the county seat Politics may have had something to do with his mind becoming unbal. anced Several days ago he threaten. cd to assassinate a prominent Main street business man because he ~d ailed to have a platform erected frOIE which he imagined he was to have made a political speech. It is said that he threatened his wife and com. pelled her to come down town with 1'n u midnight C, Hesr hIu make the speech.
 When West and Stone were thrown into jail they complained bitterly that they were not drunk and Stiles overheard the complaint. Listening from the outside officers heard the de- mented man advise them, Don't plead guilty. IT you do they will send you to the pen for at least ten years. I pleaded guilty and they sent me to Yuma for ten years. 1 owned half of every mine in the district but they took them away from me
 Stone and West witnessed the aet of placing the leather wrist bands on the demented man but they did not realize that they had listened to an insane man until alter they had been found guilty and remsnded to jail, they asked officer Thomas viz the man was being taken away. Then they admitted that 1t was on the insane mans advice that they had pleaded rot guilty or Lens drunk fear iIg life tcrm at ths Yuma peuilen. tiary.