Weekly journal-miner., 1915-08-18
jFrom Fridays Daily.)

cution, a hot fight over the selection of the jury and finally the locking up of the twelve men in charge of two bailiffs, wero the new features in the second trial of Benito Alto, the sheriff's office "spotter," charged with bribe-soliciting.
 The examination of the twenty four men from which a jury of twelve was to be selected was heard with a great deal of interest by the crowd of spectators in the Superior court yesterday, for the venire, as Judge Smith had ordered, was picked from the entire county and not from bystanders. Although the majority of them, when examined. declared that they were in favor of the prohibition amendment, many said that they were only in favor of en- forcing it because it was a law and that they really thought the princi-
 
 as some termed it. County Attorney O'Sullivan, after a few general ques- tions. passed all of the men, except ing those who had already formed opinions in regard to what should be done with Alto E. S. Clark, for the defense, was not quite as quick as O'Sullivan in his examination, he asking questions in regard to every thing that has come up in the case from the question of whether the veniremen had any prejudice against a man because he was an Indian to the question of whether the wet and dry question would cause them to lean one way or the other. It is said that in regard to the prohibit ton amendment the twelve men se- lected stand about half and half. J. L. Little, T. J. Laird Grant Carter and Ed Ritter were excused because of fixed opinions, which were not re vcaled in the court room. The jurors who are to decide whether Alto goes to Florence or not are: w. L. George, of Mayer; B. F. Major, of Groom creek; C. C. Galloway, of Camp Verde; D. w. Wingficld, of Camp Verde; W. L. Back, of Beaver creek; Albert Fain, of Camp Verde; E. A. Bonham, of Cherry; William w. Colby, of Skull valley; H. H. Keays, of Groom creek; o. L. Phip- peny, of Hillside; E. NJ. Albertson, of Lynx creek, and w. L. Roberts, of Skull valley
 The jury is to be locked up dur ing the entire trial and will be in charge of Bailiff Tom McMahon and his assistant, Charles Colquette. They will be quartered in a room in the county jail
 The county attorney opened the case with a statement to the jury, telling them what the State would prove. In substance it was that Al to was employed by the shetiffs office to work as a detective or "spot ter" to run down alleged bootleg ging in this county; that he was made a deputy s!!.,utf, and that while investigating bootlcgging cases and making the charges he swore to one against Larry Dufi and Sidney Birch O'Sullivan said that he will show this to prove that Alto was a witness and an important one against Duff and Birch He said that he would then prove that Alto entered into negotiations to obtain a bribe of $40O from the Birch Brothers, for which he was to leave the country with two assistants, failing to appear at the trial He also intends to prove that Alto tried to obtain $lO0 each from Joe Abbott and Susana Cota.
 With the complaint against Duff and Birch entered and the testimony of Sheriff Joe Young, O'Sullivan proved that Alto was a witness in d case to come up against Duff and Birch. Young testified that he em- ployed Alto on April first to get evi- dence in bootlegging cases. Alto did this work in Prescott, Humboldt and Jerome. Young was present when Alto swore 10 the complaint in the county attorneys office against Duff and Birch. He also said that Alto had been appointed deputy sheriff by him and that he considered him d witness against Duff and Birch. In the majority of the fourteen boot logging cases, in which Alto was the complaining witness, pleas Of guilty were entered, according to Young, during cross-examination Al to received S4 per day and expenses for purchasing liquor.
 Larry Duff and A. s. Cook, bar tenders at the Birch Brothers place, were the new witnesses, each testi- flying that Alto had called for Robert