The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-06-04
D|SBARMENT SUIT IS
BROUGHT AGAINST
COUNTY ATTY.
Hagan Brothers Institute Suit in
Name of State to Revoke License
of County Attorney E. E. Wall Oh
the Allegation of Malpractice.

According to report, which was
printed in the Copper Era last week.
disbarment proceedings were institut-
ed in the Superior court this week
against County Attorney E. E. Wall.
The complaint on file in the office of
a voluminous affair, and is signed by
c.. I. Paddock, who is charged with
murder in this county and by o. T.
Richey and Benton Dick, attorneys at
law in Phoenix.
The title of the complaint is The
State of Arizona VS.. E. E. Wall, Esq,
and alleges that the defendant while
practicing law in the county of Green
lee and the State of Arizona "has
been guilty of fraudulent and dis
honorable conduct and malpractice
during and aforesaid as an attorney
at law in Greenlee County"
The complaint further requests the
court to request the Attorney General
of the State, Hon. Wiley E: Jones,
to be present and assist at the prose
cution of the case.
While it appears on the face of
the proceedings that the State of
Arizona is the plaintiff, in fact the
instigators of the disbarment proceed
ings are ]. A. Hagan and Everett
Hagan, who have employed At
torneys Richey and Dick, of Phoenix,
to bring the disbarment proceedings
in the name of the State.
The complaint is composed of sew
eral allegations, six or seven in num-
ber, supported by affidavits from
parties, stating that during the year
1913, Wall accepted fees in several
cases for which, according to the aft
davits, he rendered no professional
service.
Four of these affidavits are signed
by Mexicans including Chas. Lara,
Herculano Torres, Micalda Delgado,
and Jose M. Valdez, who smake aft
davits that they had legal business
with E. E. Wall as their attorney and
that his services were not satisfac-
tory.
Mrs. C.. w. Bailey and ]. H. Liner
make affidavit that they employed E.
E. Wall as their attorney in cases and
that he did not prosecute the cases
diligently although they repeatedly
urged him to do so.
Another allegation of the complaint
is that the Town of Clifton employed
E. E. Wall as attorney to collect back
taxes for the Town which duty he
failed to perform. This allegation is
supported by a transcript of the
records of the Town Clerk. County
Attorney Wall was seen in his office
in the court house Friday afternoon
by an Era representative and gave out
the following interview, when pressed
for a statement regarding the dis
barment proceedings:
Wallis Statement.
'The sly ."Shirlock" and the dread
full Doctor have woven the inex-
tricable net around me and assisted
by murderer and two syster law
yers from Phoenix, with various sun
dry "greasers" have decreed in their
vain imaginings in mystic conclave
that 1 must be no more; that 1 shall
not prosecute the two cases against
Everett Hagan, for contributing to the
delinquency of children and for receiv-
ing tons of stolen copper; that my
license must be revoked before the
evil days come upon them; that I
must be held up to the world upon the
spear-point of their powerful wrath to
be hated, despised, cursed and con-
demned to disgrace and oblivion. Woe !
unto me!
In this obituary humbly assure
the people of this county that even
though with all the automobiles and |
the fabulous wealth of which ''Shir- |
ock'' and the Doctor" boast and !
the fortunes which they avow they /
will spend to compass my destruc- |
ion, shall pursue the even tenor of !
ny way and continue to discharge my
luty to the best of my ability without |
ear or favor and that my knees are
lot weak and my feet are not cold
the unpleasant motor
ETY. which a criminal is giving me to
protect himself 1 shall prosecute him
With the same even handed justice !
which I shall endeavor to employ in
every case which 1 may
conceive it my duty to prosecute be-
ore the courts of this State"