The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-03-27
DISTURBANCE RIFE IN OFFICIAL
 MORENC|

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 Constable is Arrested on Charges of
 Grand Larceny, Assault and Bat
 tery, and Highway .Robbery-Form-
 CT Two Cases Dismissed, While
 Latter Will be Carried to a Con-
 tclusion.
 Jas. Cash, constable of the Mo renci precinct, was arrested Friday, March 20, upon the charges of grand larceny and assault and battery, the complaint being filed by Attorney Quiat of Clifton, he representing cer- tain Mexicans who claimed that Cash had assaulted and robbed them on the night of Saturday, March IA. Later, on Thursday, March 26, Cash was again arrested this time on the charge of highway robbery, the alleg- ed offense being practically identical with that concerning the former two charges.
 The story of Cash concerning the trouble is that he was called from his home at about two o'clock on the morning of Sunday, March 15, this call stating that a crowd of drunken Mexicans were engaged in disorderly conduct at a point near Newtown. Upon reaching the scene, which was near the slag dump of the Detroit Copper Company, he found five men .quarreling among themselves, they having just finished fighting at the time of his arrival. The claims of the Mexicans are that they were not quarreling and that they had not been fighting. Cash arrested all the five men, and with the assistance of Gid Thompson, of Newtown, started with the Mexicans toward the Mo- renci jail, there to conf1ne them for the remainder of the night. At this juncture, according to Cash, the men resisted the officers, and to force them to come, Cash kicked one of the men, This conduct was the cause of the charge concerning assault and battery preferred by the injured Mexi- can against the officer. Two of the Mexicans escaped while on the way to the jail.
 Cash and Thompson placed the re- maining three in jail, this being after the officer had removed from the pockets of one of the MeXicans six hundred dollars in Mexican currency, and eighty dollars in American money. In this connection, about which the trouble hinges Cash states that he intended to place the money in the hands of Judge Lally upon the Mexi- cans being brought before the court on the charge of misdemeanor.
 On the following morning, Monday, the three Mexicans were brought be- fore Judge Lally on the charge Of misdemeanor The court permitted their release, on bond, pending their final trial on the following Thursday, when they were acquitted.
 On the early Sunday morning train Cash went to Ell o taking with him his children who will remain there with relatives. Re- turning to Morenci on Wednesday fol lowing, he was informed that his ar rest on the two charges mentioned was being considered. He was later arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hoffman and brought before Judge Lally for trial on the two charges grand lar ceny, and assault and battery. On the charge of battery, Cash demanded a change of venue. Because of the expenses incident to a transferance Of witnesses and other persons affected, , to Metcalf or Duncan Judge Leonard, of Clifton, being at this time absent, Judge Lally, upon the request of the complaining Mexican, ordered that the charge be dismissed. The ques- tion concerning grand larceny was settled just before being brought to trial On motion of the complainant the charge was ordered dismissed, the money in question at this time having | been returned to the complainant by Cash, who states that he had been i keeping it with the intention of de- | livering it to Justice Lally upon the | Mexicans being brought up for trial. |
 It is a fact that immediately upon | the return of Cash from Fl Paso he | went to the office of the Justice of | the Peace and inquired if the three Mexicans had been tried, and stated to Deputy Sheriff's Hoffman, Keppler i Judge Lally and Horton that he had pocket book containing Mexican and American money belonging to one of 1 them.
 Again Arrested.
 Cash was arrested on the morn ing of Thursday, March 26th, by De putty Hoffman, upon a robbery com plaint signed by the Mexican who was arrested by Cash, and who con- plained that Cash removed from him the money above mentioned. Upon being, for the second time brought before Judge Lally at ten o'clock on Cash asked for continuance until four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, which request was grant ed However, the case was again postponed because of the inability of States Attorney Horton to appear at Morenci on Thursday, he being en- gagged in a civil suit at Clifton. The case of Cash was placed for trial on the afternoon of Friday.
 Cash Held BIameIess.
 The examining trial of Cash, on the charge of highway robbery, was held on the afternoon of today, and rc- suited in the States Attorney, B. V. Horton, instructing to Judge Lally that Cash be set free ,aS in the opinion h of the attorney, after minutely exam ming witnesses for both the defense