Arizona republican., 1913-09-09
CLEARING DECK
 FOR FALL TERM
Eleven of Cases in Superior Court Disposed of Yester- day by Accepting Pleas of Guilty of a Variety of Crimes.

Judge John C. Phillips of the sup erior court of MaricOpa county held a special session of the superior court yesterday afternoon for the purpose of accepting the pleas of eleven pris- oners charged with various offenses. The crimes ranged all the way bet " cen horse stealing and burglary, and there were a few cases of em- beZZlement for variety. The holding Of this court will do much toward relieving the congestion that was ap- parent in the regular fall term. Dur ing the fall term there will be two trials for murder Francisco Garcia for the murder of Special Officer Charles Harris, and the Glendale case in which Tom Walker was murdered bz Noricga
 Joe Ellison was the first man to face the judge and he pleaded guilty to the charge of embeZZlement. Eli son while acting as bailee and in possession of 9 horse. buggy and harness. drove the outfit to a Five Points corral and pawned it for $5 Ellison will receive his sentence thS morning at 9:30.
 Leo Mckinney and Frank Meyers, the two horse thieves who made spectacular raid on the hOrsemen of this county and who took their booty across the dreaded Harqua Hala deS- ert to Blythe, California, decided that the best thing that they could d. was to plead guilty to he charges against them. The two men were specifically charged with stealing bay mare from II. NJ. Cox of Hot Springs and were also charged with stealing one bay horse, the sorrel and one grey from CIestino Lopez of Glendale II was on the return trip from stealing Lopez horses that they took the Cox horse. When the two men took the horses from Glendale they fled in the direction of Mesa and then doubled back on their tracks ard passed through the mountains north of Glendale If they had not taken the Cox horse il is very prob able that they never would have been arprehended.
 Waiter Hamilton. check artist. was the next to appear and he plead ed guilty to forging check on the Valley Bank Hamilton said that this was the first time that he had ever been in trouble and blamed his down fall to drink. He appeared to be very penitent and threw himself on the mercy of the court.
 Joaquin Valencia. chief of the Yaqui t:ihe in Arizona also pleaded guilty to forgery and was remanded for sentence until this morning at 9:30
 JoaUuin Garcia, no relation to the alleged murdere of Charles Harris. answered to the charge of embezzle- r,ent. Garcia brought some horses to Phoenix from Tucson and ran out of money Without asking permission from his employer, he sold several of the horses and used the money to get drunk on He also will appear for sentence this morning.
 Jesus Benito, the man who was held up by a little .22 rifle until an officer came. pleaded guilty to burg Iarv and was remanded for sentence this morning.
 William Lackamor, who stole quantity of goods from the Doris Heyman store where he was em- p.oyed as porter. pleaded guilty and asked that he be sentenced as soon as possible as he wished to atone for his infraction of the law. He will be sentenced this morning.
 Augustine VremOne was in bad fix. He was charged with stealing a watch from a man named Sutherland and he pleaded guilty He was then charged with stealing another watch from the person of w. R Bratton. This surprised him very much and he told the judge that he stole one watch but from whom he did not know. The county attorney requested the judge to postpone the case for few days until he could make some inouiries as there was another man mixed up in the theft
 Jose Rodriguez. a mere youth, pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle from F. J. Mason and offered in ex- tenuation the fact that he had left his old wheel behind in exchange.