Arizona republican., 1913-02-25

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 former bill on the same subject.
 Tn tie House
 II. B. 46-Bv MT. brennan of
 Yuma, amending the county clas
 sification act of the former ses-
 sion so as to provide for the
 salary of certain justices of the
 peace. these men running around, one of whom was Lee CutWOrth who was serving q second term for cattle stealing. He has seen Leysenby on the streets several months, and be- lieved they ought to be prohibited from running loose. He had no ob- jection to the band coming to town under guard but had objections to the others even though guarded.
 J. s. SinOtt, under sheriff was the first witness to say he had seen con Victs buying liquor. He says Bob Anderson bought six bottles of beer at o'clock one night. He had talk en it away with him. Anderson was not dressed in prison garb and on inquiry he found the bartender did not know the man was a con- vict He had also seen Anderson get a bottle of liquor at the Florence hotel. Another convict named Jack Munroc a life termer in for killing a deputy sheriff in a hold up in a saloon in PinaI was allowed to come to town unEuarded and on one oc- casion at Kit Carson's circus Nun roe was seen leading Warden Sims little boy around by the hand and in response to q question from Sinnott, said This game is easy" On one occasion complaint had been made to him that an auto was being driven about town by convict without lights in violation of law and he had complained to the warden who prom ised it would not happen again. When asked what he thought should be done to remedy the situation, he said he did not believe in making trustieS out of cOnvicts convicted for murder He also said since the pe- tition had been in to the legislature the prisoners had been kept off the street
 During the examination when the questions and answers had been fly ing rapidly to and fro with some seat. some persoins in the gallery hissed both answers and questions. and Kirk T. Moore of Pima county denounced the action and asked that it either be stopped or the galleries be cleared Chairman Wood instruct ed the sargent at arms to see IL occurred no more.
 y-Tv Il lF-H now a bartender, was the next wit ness. He said he had seen Gaynor, convicted of statutory Offense and sent to the pen for the second time. was about the town at times without a guard. and upon one occasion at a dance had asked him to introduce him to some lady friends for the purpose of dancing with them. This he had refused and Gaynor soon lett the hall. He had seen him running around the ice cream parlors and he could not be told from the citizens of the town. On one occasion Gay nor had come into the saloon where Troxal was employed and asked for some liquor. rendering payment, but was refused He had been told by Secretary Wansel that the commits sary of the prison cleared $167 in January. and sam Goodman, guard, had told him that guards could pur- chase merchandise from the prison commissary and that he had gotten $50 worth of groceries for $7. The date Gaynor had asked to be intro duced at the dance was September 16, 1912 He had never seen con vict drunk. He saw the circus parade complained of and recognized the man driving as a murderer.
 He said Martinez, who had killed Ed Porter, got over the wall under the old administration. with six guards on the walls, and was not surprised that he got away from the sewer gang He had q permit to carry a gun, given him by the sheriff of the county, because Bob Stewart, who killed A. J. Daggs at Superior, against whom he was the prescott ing witness. had stated he would get him. Stewart was working on the sewer He did not believe in trusting prisoners after they have served their time, much less trust them while they are under sentence. His
  were used. He did not believe the present officials of the prison were competent.
 w Y. Price was called He is member of the Florence Commercial company. He had made no com plaint against the conditions until the petition was started because he did not know much about the prisoners. and did not know the conditions were as bad as he now believed them to be until lately. He did not know that the driver of the auto was convict until lately. He had seen sixty men working on the sewer with only one guard This he objected to and he said that all the women folks of the town had been put in a state of fear sometimes on account of the opportunity that was given for trou-