Weekly journal-miner., 1917-03-28
SUDDEN RUSH OF MEMORY TOTHE HEAD AFFL|CTS
 ART PEARSON
STAR HUNT WITNESS DE- CIDES TO CHANGE HIS TESTIMONY; FIGHT IS STILL WAGING OWE R THROWING OUT DOUG LAS NO. 1 PRECINCT.

PHOENIX, March 10.-Art Pear son spent another trying half hour 1T the witness chair this morning before Judge Stanford in the Superior court where the fight to dispose of precinct No. 1 in Douglas is being waged. Or the stand this time Pearson suddenly remembered that he had paid all oI his hotel bills in Deming and Silver City, x. NJ, out of Sl250 which De- tective Cox had handed over to him Attorney Campbell asked the witness if he had not changed his testimony ths morning after he had seen the proprietor of the Deming hotel in the city and feared that her testimony as to who settled up for his hotel bill might impeach him. Pearson denied that this was the reason for changing his statement after he had testified more than a half dozen times yester- day that Cox had paid the hotel bills.
 Attorney Campbell asked Pearson If he had taken drink since coming to Phoenix and the witness replied that he had had one this morning. Judge Campbell then asked him if this was the reason for his change of testimony or whether it was the re- suit Of consultation with Senator Ives. Pearson said that he and Ives had discussed this phase of the case in "a general way" since yesterday afternoon.
 Don D. Mills, connected with the department of the interior, was called by Senator Ives, but the greater part of his testimony relative to several alleged confessions of Detectives Cox, Ryan, Holthcr, Carr and Refs was not allowed to be given on the ground that it was merely hearsay When Senator Ives realized that he was dc featcd in this purpose, he offered to prove by the witness that Holthcr, said to be in the employ of the Re- publican committee, made state mcnt that he was attempting to per suadc II. II. Hart, judge of the cleo ton board in Douglas No. 1. to leave the State and that if he succeeded Inc would take Hart so far away that it would take Sc postage stamp to get a letter to him" Senator Ives also asserted that other detectives in the employ of the Campbell attorneys ad- nlitted to the witness Mills that mon cy was no object to them and that it was their aim and desire to remove both Pearson and Hart to parts un- known: that Carr stated Cox had hooked his man and was keeping him drunk; that Holthcr stated on March 6 that he was going to Phoenix to get a dictagraph and three warrants and pull the biggest thing that had ever been staged in Arizona" that on Sat urday, March Y, he overheard a con vcrsation between Carr and Cox in which the former stated they were all shot to hell and accused Cox of not assisting in getting rid of Hart when he had S5,00O with which to ac- complish the feat"
 The fact that the witness claimed 10 be so conveniently near when con- vcrsationS of importance were car ricd on between the detectives, and the fact that Thiel detective agency operators arc not noted for their gar rulousness. probably tended to con- vince those in the court room that Mills testimony would not be of much value to the contestants. The court sustained the objection of the Campbell attorneys to allowing the witness to repeat what he had heard.