Weekly journal-miner., 1916-02-02
FOUND GUILTY OF
 INTRODUCING LIQUOR
(From Thursday's Daiiy.)

Within a period of about 100 min utes. a jury was selected 10 try Ed uardo Garcia on a charge of intro ducing liquor into the State, the evi' dence in the case was presented, the jury was instructed, a verdict ot guilty was returned and the 90 gallons of w11iskey. the Mexican was found guilty of introducing, was run into the gutter.
 Garcia will be sentenced Saturday morning and he will get near the limit for his crime. according to Judge Smith. who declared that the defend ant took the witness stand and per jured himself.
 Trial of the case was started at 3:3O o'clock in the afternoon with Deputy County Attorney Morgan representing the State and Garcia acting in his own behalf, refusing to allow Judge Smith to apoint an at torney to represent him.
 Twenty men were empaneled from which to select the jury. Morgan waived examination Of the men and Garcia did the same, through J. C.. Cailes. who acted as interpreter. The first twelve names o1 the list. which are as follows. were selected:
 Moses Waefer, R. D. Nease, A. D. Coover. ]. E. Fitzgerald. C. L. Cous' ins, John Riley. Peter Schaefer. r. Treg. Wm. Herter, Otto Long, E. C. Suman and Martin Conner.
 Before any of the witnesses were examined. the 5O-gallon barrel of whisky was carried from the sheriff office to the court room by six men. Ii was entered as an exhibit and filed with the clerk of court.
 Garcia Talks to Him.
 MI w. Hankin. one of the prin- cipal witnesses for the State and man ager of the Harvey farm at Del Rio, testified that Garcia and two other men came to the ranch on December Y. and asked him if he had seen arl oil barrel on the Del Rio siding. He told them that it had been placed there on December 13. and removed on December l6. The three men left in their wagon and later in the day, Garcia returned and took the after noon train for the north. Rankin stated that he had heard that the bar rel contained whiskey and on investi- gation found it to be true. The bar rel contained a tag showing that It was consigned to man by the name of NJ. L. Loomis.
 Deputy Fred Bartlett. of Ash Fork, testified that on December T, he ar rested Garcia on susnicion at Ash Fork and found a bill of lading for the barrel of whisky in his overcoat pocket. The deputy identified the bill of lading and it was introduced in evidence. Garcia told Bartlett that a man in Prescott had given him the bill of lading. The Mexican also told Bartlett that he came from Fl Paso about ten days before his arrest. Ac' cording to the bill of lading the bar rel was shipped from Fl Paso on De cember 6. Garcia was arrested De cember Y.
 Got Wagon in Jerome.
 Antoni Rodriguez, who is in tho transfer business at Jerome testlhed that Garcia rented wagon from lhln about the middle of December tc make a trip over to Del Rio to get g bundle. One of his hired men started 10 90 to Del Rio with Garcia but -,- could not make the entire trip be cause of the snow. Ramon Marino of Jerome, the hired man. while oI the stand. related how he and Garcia lad made the trip to Del Rio. HC said that they could not get to thi siding because they were unable to cross a river. They then made triI to the ranch of Rosento Alvarez near Sycamore to get larger wagon
 Told Him it Was Oil.
 Garcia told Rosento Alvarez, ac cording to tne latter's testimony. tha he was goi1o to Del Rio to get ; barrel of oil. Garcia came to Al varez's ranch to obtain a larger wag on so that he could cross a stream near Del Rio. The witness stated fiat Garcia. when they went to De Rio had the bill of lading for the bar rel in his pocket. The barrel ha' been taken away when they reache' the Del Rio siding.
 Don't Know Alvarez.
 Garcia. the defendant. testified tha ne had nothing more to say than tha the barrel was not and IS not hi property He denied ever speakini to Hankin or being with Alvarez O Marine. He said that he found tn bill of lading in the depot at Pres colt. He stated that before comin to Prescott he had lived in Mlam About the middle of December h went to Del Rio to work as a sheer herder but being unable to find wor went on to Ash Fork where he va arrested. The Mexican did not eros, examine any of the States witnesse and neither side argued the case.
 The jury on motion of Deput County Attorney Morgan were give permission 10 examine the barrel an glass of its contents was passe among the twelve men who handle it as they would a loving cup. Judg Smith declared that there would b plenty to go around ii any of the me cared to test it. One of the juror tasted it and said that the oil in tl1 upper portion Of the barrel evidentl had leaked into the whisky.
 After being out little over hN minutes the jury returned a verdi' of guilty and the jurist ordered tn; the contents of the barrel be d stroyed immediately. At about >, o'clock the cap on the sheet iron ba rel was removed and its contents . lowed to run down one of the gutte leading from the sheriff's office ov