Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-02
Execution of William Stewart in
 Gila County Last Week Is Said to Be Due to "CapitaI'
 Punishment Fall aCies.
Opinions of Many Who Have
 Followed the Cases of Two
 Murderers Conform as to the Result of Last Friday Morning.

That Governor Hunts campaign against capital punishment and the stone he placed in the road of justice in the case of John B. Goodwin, over a year ago. is responsible for the re- cent hanging in Globe, when William Stewart paid the extreme penalty for murder, is the opinion of many who have followed the cases of the two murderers through the federal courts
 The crime committed by John Good win and William Stewart has been told and retold A bare outline can again be printed without censure. In September, 1910, Goodwin and Stew art were working as range hands for COW outfit in the White Mountains. Phillpot and Kibby, two young men from Globe, appeared in the White Mountains on fishing and camping trip They extended the hospitality of their camp to Goodwin and Stewart and were foully murdered for theil 1 trouble
 After a chase lasting over many days and ranging frLm the most in- accessible passes in lhe mountains of Arizona, and over the nainted des- ] ert south of HolbroOk the two men were captured at Adamana on the | Santa Fe Railroad.
 They were brought back to G obe and during the late G2ll were raced on trial in the federal courts. The crime was committed on an Indian reservation. and the federal authori- ties took jurisdiction in the case. Both ! Goodwin and Stewart were placed on trial for the murder of Phillpot
 After a bitterly fought trial, Tom Flanigan defending, and Joseph E. Morrison prosecuting Goodwin and Stewart were both found guilty Death was recommended for the former and life imprisonment for the latter. Stewart was sometime later sent to Atlanta to serve out his sentence.
 Goodwin's case was appealed 10 every court in the then territory, Later the case was appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Ap-
 pals, for the Ninth District at San l Francisco, and the findings of the lower court were re-affirmed. Good wins sentence of death must be car
 red out
 Meanwhile the murderer was in-
 carcerated in the territorial peniten-
 tiary at Florence The sentence of
 the lower court made the institution l at I. ..F
 Goodwins death by the rope.
 Time had flown. And George w.
 Hunt was elected as Governor of the
 State of Arizona. He advocated a law doing away with the death penalty and refused to carry out the law in
 seceral State cases, where men had
 been sentenced to be hanged. Good
 wins case was under federal jurisdic-
 ton and entirely out of the hands of Arizona's executive yet Governor Hunt efused to allow the hanging to , take place in Florence.
 On the technicaity that Goodwin had to be hanged where the lower and trial court had decreed Tom Flant
 gan took the case up and pushed it to it's furthest point making won derful fight for his pennhess client ' After a great deal of trouble and work, on the part of the United States , authorities, Goodwin was sentenced to be hanged in the county jail at Globe t This was after the county authorities
 of Tucson and Prescott had refused permission to the United States Mar shal to hold the execution in either U of those places. Goodwin, was, fin ally, hanged at Globe after a sixty
 day repueve had been granted him by '' President Wilson.
 Close on the heels of this execution ', the federal grand jury, in session al u Phoenix, brought an indictment charg ' ing William Stewart with the murder 70 lof Fred Kibby Stewart was brough 70 back to Phoenix and placed on tria l' for his life. Benton Dick conducte,