Arizona republican., 1915-08-07
JUSTICE DONE
 ID W. WALLACE
Fate of a Man Who Com mitted a More Heinous Crime Than to Bring AL coholic Liquor into a Dry State

1 But for his guilty. shamefaced look and fuEtive manner William Wallace might even then have escaped. He turned to Phoenix yesterday morning with his bride of two weeks. The gang had been thinking of the things that ought to be done to him but nothing had been decided upon and in this state of the gangs indecision, he might have gone unpunished. He furnished the cue himself He had brought back with him as peace of ferings a lot of glass beer mugs filled with some substance that looked like beer but was not. The veri- similitude was increased by some oth- CT substance on top that looked like foam but it was not.
 He could not have done a worse thing than to bring a thing like that into a prohibition state on a warm day. The effect of this life-like imi- tation was maddening. The arrest of Mir. Wallace on a charge of boot logging was easily suggested and he was locked up in the jag cell. So certain was it that he would be con victed that a striped suit was brought from Hannys. He demurred against wearing it but it was that or noth-
 ing and he donned it.
 Other charges against him were pilng up He was accused of breach of promise. He was ordered into court at ten o'clock and as he was being taken up stairs to the superior court room he was seized with panic and broke away from the iailOr He would probably have escaped but for the prOvidential appearance of Deputy Sheriff Joe Bush.
 MT. Wallace was the victim of an- other panic when he was brought to the bar of justice and found himself confronting Miss Judge Grau, who looked upon him with a cold and for bidding eye Stand up." she said. Mir Wallace stood or attempted to stand and the charges against him were pronounced and to all of them he pleaded not guilty Little evidence was taken, the trial consisting chiefly of arguments which were conducted for the state by Prosecuting Attorney J w. Canning. Jim Murphy conduct ed as able a defense of the prisoner as he could in such hopeless case. subpoena was issued for Mrs Wal lace but she declined to appear. But that made no difference; she could not under the laws of this state, have testified against her husband and anything she might have said in his favor would have been regarded as the utterance of an interested and self serving witness
 The jury consisted of the lady at taches about the court house. Wal lace had never a chance. When the judge announced that the defendant at the bar was guilty one of the jury women arose and insisted upon her womanly prerogative of having something to say She wanted to make it stronger against, the de fendant Was it not possible to hang him in spite of Governor Hunt?
 After some consultation it was de cided to drop the boOt-legging case and find the defendant guilty on the more serious charge of breach of pro- mise He was given sentence of twenty-five days in the county sail or a fine of $25 and both and was told bv Judge Grau that there was no appeal from the judgments of this court Finally the imprisonment sen tence was set aside and the check of MT. Wallace, after having been care fully scrutinized as to the genuine ness of the signature and as to the state of his account at the bank, was accepted and he was permitted to go hence in his striped clothes like zebra that had been turned loose upon the plain.