Arizona republican., 1913-10-23
PHELPS-DODGE
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W. H. Brophy, F. E. Cole and the Company Will Plead Before Federal Court Today Seven Al legged Arms Shippers

With just three lawyers and two newspapermen present beside the l court William H. Brophy, the Phelps Dodge Mercantile company and F. E. 1 Cole appeared yesterday at their ar raignment before Federal Judge Saw | telle on the charges of conspiring 1 to transport munitions of war and of | actually doing so, contrary to the l senate joint resolution regarding neu- ] trality with Mexico. The usual busi- ness of the court had been dispatched and nearly every one had gone when Clerk Lewis called the cases Reese M. Ling apepared for the three men toned above. No one appeared for the others named in the indictments: Douglas Mercantile company, R. P. de Nigriz, M. M. Martinez Pedro Bracamonte, w. F. Fisher. J. L. Perez.
 MT. Ling, for his clients, waived the reading of the indictments and asked for twenty -four hours delay before entering pleas. This, of course was granted, and at the first convenient time this afternoon the two individuals and the corporation will appear to plead.
 1 The indictments were all dated Oc- ] 1. l til the actual arraignment of the three at last evenings special little session.
 ! There were two indictments against each one. One charged conspiring to ] ship munitions of war, and the other charged actual transportation. 1 The cases, which arose some months ago in commissioners court in Doug las and Bisbee, grew out of fnvestiga- l tions of United States officials of the traffic in rifles and cartridges from i the United States into Mexico.
 William H. Brophy is general man ager for the Phelps Dodge concern. Cole is manager of the hardware 1 department of the Douglas store. Fisher is manager for the Douglas Hardware company. So much for so much. The Mexican line up consists of Bracamonte and De Negri. agents of the constitutional government of the state of Sonora. Perez and Mar tinez are also connected with the revolutionary forces. None of the l Mexicans are at present in Phoenix. They have been sought this side of the border. and Bracamonte was appre- hended and bonded after a hearing
 The case will be in the nature of a test whether the United States d for selling arms in quantities that make it evident they are intended for use south of the line. The regu- lation on which the cases are to be based does not attempt to define with absolute accuracy what constitutes an offense. There is very much trouble now over the wholesale arms transactions in the border zone across the south of the state. The authorities are kept continually on the watch for shippers of arms. At least a dozen arrests have been made beside those leading to the cases in
 dicted yesterday.
 Slowly and methodically, federal court ground out it's need of Indian liquor cases yesterday. But the grand jury progressed beyond the first batch of cases and dipped into some of the other arms shippers cases.
 Gregorio F.. Flores J. K. Wright, Jack Wilson, A. C. Villasenor. W. r.. Schwamm. L. D. Mccartney, L.. Perez and NJ. NJ Martinez are the names of those against whom true
 bills were returned yesterday. In
 each case the charge is unlawfully exporting munitions of war
 Long Sentences.
 For second offense men Judge Saw 1
 yesterday, assessing two men two
 years and S4o0 each, and one year
 and a day and $2GO. These sen
 tences were to Atlanta, Ga, prison.
 which it was explained to the wrong doers is far different from Arizona's
 hostelry on the Gila Loretto Alvarez
 got the year and Juan Munoz and
 Juan Suarez got the two year terms. Youngsters.
 ! Six of the prisoners who appeared in federal court yesterday to answer charges of selling liquor to Indians 5 were below the voting age. They were passed for the time being. un- til his honor can find time to in quire further into their cases. His object seems to be to find some req son for minimizing their punishment
 all that is possible. Manuel Muril- ' los. H. Shepherd. Jose Dominguez, Joseph Roberts, Martin Valenzuela and | J. F. Franklin.
 Good Show Today.
 There will be more interest in to- Q days session than in that of the first
 three days. The arraignment of those
 alleged to have been guilty of illegal
 shipment of rifles and cartridges into : stormy Mexico will occur some time