The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-02-20
CASE OF MRS. GOULD NOW
 ABSORbS FULL ATTENTION

house have presented scenes of far more than the usual activity through Tout this present term of court, the fGould case being largely responsible for the larger attendance of witnesses, prospective jurors, etc. Indications are that the present regular term will mot be ended before the passing of several weeks.
 Complete Panels by Special Calls.
 < Out of the original fifty veniremen
 who were called in the original call of the Court, these being for appear
 ance on Monday, the opening day of
 the present term, 1t was found impos.
 sible to select the number twenty nine, required by law, and accord ingly Judge Laine ordered that a EcalE for sixteen more citizens be is-
 sued The names of those called
 follow: Frank Springer, Jno. Hol-
 man Milton Morris, L.. F. Sweating,
 Vernon Martin, C.. E. Barnum, Chas.
 Brooks, l.. Mcbride, W. R. Cosper.
 Jos .Billingsley, and c. F. Johnson.
 Tular, Trainor, Barnum, Laney.
 These men called were entirely separ-
 ate from the special yenire. the names
 appearance, 1t was learned that an-
 other venire still would be necessary,
 and accordingly the citizens whose
 names are here first mentioned were
 called. From these last men sum-
 moned, it is expected that a full num- Der of jurors will be gained.
 Sault is Found Guilty.
 On Thursday of this week the jury
 rendered veridct of guilty in the
 case of the state against Lester Sault, and the Court, on the forenoon of Friday pronounced sentence, his de-
 cision being that Sault should be a term of from two to five years. This case excited much interest, Sauh be- ing accused of assault with intent to commit murder, the specific charge being that he some time since, at Morenci, his home. attempted, with pistol, the life of Officer Hoffman, at Morenci. Evidence submitted at the trial was to the effect that the accus ed,H who for some time has resided at Morenci, where he was employed as an electrician, had before in Greenlee county been accused and convicted of crime, serving in the Greenlee county jail a number of days imprisonment Sault resided at Morenci in the sec Itionr known as D Hill, and was resid- ing with a woman whom he claimed to be his sister, although at the trial evidence. was not submitted to sub [stantiate his claim. Domestic dis agreements ensued between the wo- man and, Sau1t, with the result that the woman called officers to the home, stating that Sault had threat ened to kill her and other occupants of the house. Officed Hoffman res bonded, and upon reaching the house, SauIt fired at him with pistol, the shots going wild, and resulting in no injury. The claim of the prisoner was that he thought the officer to be an other party who previously had threatened his, Sault's life, and that he was acting only in self-defense. The charge originally preferred against the prisoner was that of assault with intent to commit murder, although the verdict of the jury was rendered upon the charge of assault with a deadly weapon, this latter charge carrying a much higher penal ty.
 Baker Pleads Not Guilty.
 Jas. Baker, some time since arrest ed upon the charge of grand larceny, the specific complaints being that he stole a sum of money from the pock- cts of a helpless Mexican in the Chase Creek section, was this week arraigned before the Court, and plead ed not guilty. He was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff, and his trial placed for a date after the con- clusion of the civil cases which will | be tried by juries.
 Not Guilty of Stealing Child.
 Y. Munoz, accused of stealing, at | Morenci, a child the child in the case being a girl of about sixteen years of age, was this week declared by the | jury to be not guilty. The defense of Munoz, who was represented by Quiat, is that the alleged ab- II duction, which occurred while the girl in the case and her mother were in the evening from attend ing a picture show, was only simple case of his and the girls desire to escape from the mother, who, was averse, and become married that the girl was of proper age, seventeen years, to justify her perfect right to form matrimonial alliances, and that the so-called abduction was entirely with the girls consent. The state nent of the mother was that Munoz forcibly removed from her, the moth CTS presence, the girl, who according to the mother is only sixteen years Of age, and carried the screaming girl a distance of one block to the home 1f a neighbor. The jury was thus placed before the alternative of choice of evidence, and decided in the T. favor of the accused man.
 Gutierrez Case Carried Over.
 The case of the state against B. who is accused of the mur- Ter. of Mexican woman at Morenci, was this week set for trial at some late in the April term of the Superior Court It will be remembered, that Gutierrez, who is said to be an unusu- lily intelligent Mexican, cruelty went 70 the home of the woman, who was married, and in the darkness of night, md while her husband was absent at 1is work, shot her to death with pistol. The murdered woman left