Bisbee daily review., 1915-08-13
WHIT DAMAGE CASE
STILL OCCUPIES THE
COURTS ATTENTION
Case Expected to Be Completed
This Afternoon; Many Sent
enCed TO Terms in County Jail
and in the Penitentiary.

TOMBSTONE. Aug. - Especially -
The damage case of Willard Whit
against the Warren Bisbee Railway
Company was still occupying the at
tention of the Superior Court during
the entire day and will, in all probab
ility. take up the larger portion of
the time tomorrow. The plaintiff con-
Guided his case this morning and the
defense put on one or two witnesses
before the noon adjournment The
timony of further witnesses for the
defense and that had not concluded
up to the time court adjourned for
the day. The defense has several
more witnesses to put on in the morn
ing
Leopold Reyna and Manuel Herman
dez who We're arrested a few months
since charged with attempting to
break into a store in Douglas, after
having been in jail here since the
commission Of the crime, this morn
ing decided to change their plea from
not guilty to guilty Of attempted bur
glary in the second degree. and were
sentenced to serve a term of four
months in the county Jail, sentence to
date from June 18th
Edgar II. Tucker, who was arrested
on charge Of bringing Intoxicating
liquor into the state, being caught at
Cochise, came into court this after
noon and entered a plea of guilty and
was sentenced to serve a term of ten
days I'm the county jail and to pay a
fine of sos. He signed a waiver Of all
interest in the whisky that he was
caught with and the same will be de-
stroyed by Sheriff Wheeler.
Ed Walker Of Douglas, who was
arrested with several other negroes
lat Douglas about July l. and who was
4 sentenced to serve a term Of 100 days
| by Judge McClay, came into court
this morning and asked that the ap-
peal in his case which had been made
in Douglas, be dismissed and that he
be allowed to serve out his time as
given to- him by the justice court in
Douglas.
Manuel Acosta has been held to the
Superior Court to answer the charge
Of an assault with intent to commit
murder, under $4,000 bond alleged
to have been committed i'm Pearce
when he attacked a woman named
Rita Montague, with a knife He was
brought over from Pearce by Consta-
Bile Webster this morning.
DAMAGES FOR ARREST
Roscoe Wiley Of Wilcox, has filed
suit in the Superior Court against j.
H. Terrill and j. NJ. Hooker and the
Hooker estate i'm the sum of $500
alleged to be due on account of his
being arrested on a charge Of cattle
, stealing. The complaint alleges that
the plaintiff was arrested during the
/ month Of June last on a charge of
/ changing the brand on a COW belong
ing to the Hooker estate and that the
/ defendant, j. H. Terrin was the fore
man of the company and swore out
the complaint against the plaintiff be-
fore Justice of the Peace Keath in
Wilcox; that on the 2Sth of June the
plaintiI was given a hearing before
the Justice and was discharged. He
now asks for the damages on account
of the arrest and the damage to his
reputation, etc. John Gungle, Of Will
cox, is the plaintiffs attorney.
WANTS MONEY BACK
e. o. Kelly, Of Wilcox, has filed
suit in the Superior Court against the
| Provident Mutual Building G. Loan
Association and the Title Guarantee
p, & Trust Company and o. Gibson, to
recover the sum Of SS92.53. The com.
plant alleges that in December, 1914,
the defendant. o. Gibson, as agent
for the above named companies. sold
to him at public auction in front of
the Court House. certain property in
. Wilcox which he now claims the de-
p PENDANTS had no right to SELL as they
had no title to the same. The com
plant further alleges that he has
made a demand for the return Of the
money so paid but that the defend
ants refuse TO return the money to
him.
GIVEN SENTENCE
/ Santos Rivera, who was arrested in
Bisbee during the month of June for
, breaking into rooms in the Plymouth
lodging house. and who had entered
. a plea of not guilty, decided to change
( his plea and entered one of guilty
81 land was sentenced l., gofva not moro