Weekly journal-miner., 1916-07-12
SOUTH AROUSED OVER
 ACTION OF GOVERNOR
(From Thursdays Daily.)


 A special dispatch from Phoenix to the Fl Paso Times says:
 Southern Arizona has been stirred to protesting against Governor Geo. w. P. Hunts friendliness and en- couragement to Joe Wiley. ex-deputy sheriff of Tucson, charged with the murder of Mrs. Josephine Bates last April, and recently granted bail in the State Supreme court, after a hard ight in the lower courts Hundreds of Hunts former friends have criti- cised his open support of Wiley be- fore the trial, and many have declared that they will not support a man who will make show of sympathy for a man who is in jail charged with murder.
 Hunt Visits Prisoner.
 Hunts friendlincss for the alleged murderer has not showed itself alone in the message he has sent to the Pima county jail where Wiley has been incarcerated When Hunt pass d through the southern part of the State on one of his political campaign trips recently. he stopped of in Tue son, and, going to the county jail. spent several hours in the cell with the accused former deputy On his departure he told Sheriff w. A. For bes to deny to all who might ask that he had called on Wiley. Forbes did as requested, but Wiley had not been cautioned and when he was released carly this week on Sl0O00 bail, the first thing he did was talk. The re- suit is that his friends and enemies have learned that Hunt called on him in the county jail and that arrange ments for the trial were then com pleted.
 Hunts Aid to Case.
 When Wiley, who was incarcerated with Thomas Johns and Ramon Sala- gar on the same charge, came up for hearing before Judge w. A. O'Con- nor, of Santa Cruz county, on the setting of bond Monday. further evi- dence of Hunts aid in the case was displayed. Judge Frank Duffy and Sam Pattee, the former governors star chamber advisor in Nogales, and the latter the star chamber official in Pima county, appeared in the court room as counsel for the accused ex- deputy.
 Duffy and Pattee denied that they had taken the case at the instance of the States first executive. However, Wiley, in statements made immedi- ately after being released, is alleged 10 have said Hunt had arranged for his defense and he would have the best attorneys in Southern Arizona.
 Mrs. Bates was shot while riding in an automobile on a road near Tue son shortly after midnight on April 10 last Officers riding in an auto mobile which was pursuing the Bates machine, admitted in the preliminary hearing that they had fired several shots to make the car in front of them stop. They declared they thought the machine they were pur- suing was that in which robbers were riding. Johns admitted that he fired the first shot and Captain Bates dc clared his wife had said: John, I'm shot, just after the first shot rang out
 Mir. and Mrs. Bates were returning 10 their home near Tucson from the theatre when the accident happened. Wiley, Johns and Salazar were ar rested immediately after the death of Mrs. Bates by Sheriff A. w. Forbes. who took away their deputy badges and commissions when he disarmed them.
 Hunt and Wiley first became close friends during the sessions of the first State legislature when Wiley was an official in the upper house. However, they had known each other for years and Wiley had managed Hunts campaign in Southern Arizona in the previous and first State cleo ton. During the sessions of the leg islature, when Hunt had several mis- sions to be attended to quietly'in the, upper house, Wiley and the chief ex- ecutive became close friends. rJrTAEDOI DT NOUIDI E