The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-03-06

l OuTOFS are EXCuSeQ OntII Forenoon of Monday-Sev- eral Important Civil
 Cases to be Tried Be- | fore Term Ends.
 After deliberating eight minutes, the jury serving in the case of Mrs. Emma Allan, charged with the mur- der of H. H. Tifft, returned, on the afternoon of Thursday verdict of not guilty.
 | Mrs. Allan was accused jointly with Mrs. Annie Gould of the murder of Mrs. Gould's father, H. H. Tint, at his home at Metcalf several weeks since. Mrs. Gould was acquitted last week after a stubbornly contest ed legal battle. The supposition was that the acquittal of Mrs. Gould would result in the dismissal of the case of the state against Mrs. Allan, the charge against each being iden- tical, and the claim of the states at terney being that Mrs. Allan was an accessory to the crime. How ever States Attorney Horton strongly forced the issue in the case of Mrs. Allan, the trial consuming about two days.
 The claim of Horton was that Mrs. Allan owned the pistol with which Mrs. Gould shot Tifft, that she handed Mrs. Gould the pistol at the time of the shooting, and that she was to an extent an intigator of the action of Mrs. Gould. He endeavored to de- monstrate to the jury that both women were guilty of deliberate premedita- tion in regard to the killing.
 Horton introduced number of wit nesses, practically all of whom were also witnesses in the case of Mrs. fn cfoh Ch hic Ioir evidence offered was practically the same as offered at the former trial, and thus tended to the effect that Mrs Gould fired the shots without premedi- tation, and therefore without any abettment from Mrs. Allan. The most discriminating evidence offered by Horton was that the pistol used by Mrs. Gould was the property of Mrs. Allan and that Mrs. Allan had through other parties purchased, im- mediately before the killing, a box of revolver cartridges at the Metcalf store of the Arizona Copper com- pany. In this connection, it is al- legged that the person who acted as agent of Mrs. Allan in the purchase of the cartridges was expected by Horton to be an important witness for the state at the trial, but that he was not to be found by the sheriffs of flee at the time when wanted to testi- fly. Also, it is said that Jno. Tint, a son of the deceased, was expected to appear as witness, and that he was not to be found when wanted. :, Kearney and Quiat introduced only property of Mrs. Allan; that the Mrs. Gould. The evidence of Mrs. Gould was the same as offered by her during her trial on the charge pre- ferred against Mrs. Allan, this being to the effect that the pistol was the property of Mrs. Allan that the weapon for some time prior to the killing had been placed upon the table in the room occupied by Mrs. Allan, that she, Mrs. Gould, grasped this re- volver from the table on the night of the killing only because she ex- pected her father to use it upon her self, and that Mrs. Allan was not in any manner connected with the act of shooting, never having aided or abbetted the witness in the tragedy. Mrs. Allan testified to the same ef- feet. Both girls admitted the gun to be the property of Mrs. Allan; ad- mitted that the cartridges were pur- chased for Mrs. Allen and that they were purchased only for the purpose of enjoying revolver practice upon the hills above Metcalf.
 
 Horton cd1ld offer nothing to dis prove. He attempted to place Mrs. Tifft upon the stand in an effort of rebuttal, but the objection of Attor| ney Kearney in this respect was sus- tained by the Court. The evidence of Mrs. Tifft at the examining trial at Metcalf was that the pistol had never been seen by herself on the table be- fore the night of the killing. The I,@I~ Ian thus was brought to the facts that she owned the weapon with which the shots were fired, and that she became possessed of a box of pistol cartridges immediately before the shooting.
 The jurors who decided this case were: Chas. Brooks, R. L. Beck man, L. F. Sweating, c. W. Barnum, A. F. Hoffman, Richard Stevens. Paul Hammer, H. R. Scott, Frank Bowman, F. M. Crockett, Jos. Bill kingsley and W. W. Broom.
 kain is Awarded Damages.
 On the afternoon of Tuesday, after engaging the attention of the Court for practically one week, the verdict rendered in the case of Richard Kain against the Arizona Copper company. this being an action for damages, was that the defendant should pay to the plaintiff the sum of S5,000.00
 The Kain case has been before the courts of Arizona for a number of years, and in it's complications pre- sented many interesting, especially to legal and medical men, features. The allegations of Kain were to the ef- feet that he was injured several years since while in the employ of the de- fendant, the accident occurring at Mo renci; that he at the time carried ac-