The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-03-27
DISTURBANCE RIFE IN g
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and that he, Horton, would be placed
 in false light should the case be
 carried to the Superior Court; tha
 in his opinion Judge Laine of the
 court would not permit the case tc
 go to trial after being informed of the
 evidence. Accordingly Judge Lally
 ordered the case dismissed.
 Among the witnesses examined were three MeXicans who were arrested by
 Cash while the Mexicans were coming from Newtown. The evidence ot these three fully substantiated the Iclaims of Cash, in all important points lthese being to the effect that he merely arrested the Mexicans, and t1ce of officers arreSting men under
 similar conditions. The man who
 owned the wallet containing the
 money which was taken by Cash ad-
 mitted that Cash took the money, and
 that he, the Mexican, knew at the
 time that Cash was an officer, and
 therefore had a legal right to remove
 the money with any other effects the
 man possessed before the prisoner
 Was placed in jail.
 The story of Cash, substantiated by
 witnesses Morrison, Thompson, Hoff- man, Keppler, and Henry, was to the effect that he received at his resi- dence, (this was substantiated by Henry) a call from a Mexican to the eect that a crowd of. drunken Mexi- leans was coming from Newtown, and that they were drunken and disorder ly. Cash immediately responded and found the men near the slag dump of the Detroit Copper company. He there arrested them and searched them, finding the money, two or three Tn ocIY nf win nd surplus hat held in the bosom of one of the men. That he called to Nor rison, who was passing, and requested him to assist Cash in carrying the men to the jail. Morrison responded and the men were, with the later assistance of Gid Thompson, placed in the Newtown jail.
 After placing the men in jail, Cash and Thompson went into the latter's saloon, where Cash requested Thomp- son to take the money which had been removed from the pockets of the Mexican, and place it in the safe of the house. That Thompson re- fused, for the reason that no money was ever kept there during the night, it being placed in a safe Of greater security across the street. Cash then came to his home, placed the money over the window of his room, and in acCOTOdHcS WILL preVlOuS dIIduSO- ments, boarded the early morning train, with his children, whom he carried as far as Fl Paso on their way to Southern Texas, where they will with relatives. Cash then re- turned to Morenci, arriving here on Wednesday following the arrest of the Mexicans. Immediately upon reach ing the town, he was told that he was to be arrested on the charge of grand larceny, this charge being dis missed, and another charge, that of highway robbery, being preferred later. Cash returned the money to the Mexican upon the latter's being brought before the Court for final trial at which time he was acquitted.
 In his opinion delivered to Judge Lally, Horton specified that he could not see where Cash was to be blamed in any respect other than that of for so long keeping the money in his possession, but in this respect adding that such practice was commonly fol lowed by arresting officers, and that this laxity could not be considered as the charge of highway rob- bery.