The Parker post., 1917-10-27
M0REPR0OF
OF CONSPIRACY
IN SECOND AFFIDAVIT B. D. Film
DISCLOSES MORE EVIDENCE
OF CONSPIRACY AGAINST JOHN
F. COLLINS.

| AT the request of B. D. Film, The
| Post publishes another affidavit in
| the matter of the conspiracy entered
| into by the local justice of the peace
| to railroad" the Commercial Bank
officials to the Yuma county Jail
without a fair and impartial hear
| ing The second affidavit as publish
ed herewith gives full account of
the proceedings alleged to have taken
place at second meeting Of the
parties named therein, in front of
| the Office of the local justice of the
peace, and, according to Mr.. Film,
| there were at least two others who
attended this second meeting who
| will substantiate the statements
made in the affidavit.
An accusation of perjury and con
spiracy is to be filed forthwith, it is
said before the superior court OF
this county against Collins, the Par
ker justice Of the peace. In the re-
cent trial of r. H. Fuller, cashier Of
! the Commercial Bank, Collins swore
on the witness stand that he was
not present at the meeting alleged
! 10 have taken place in the basement
Of the new hotel building, and that
he was not party to the alleged
conspiracy of "railroading" the bank
officials.
! 1t is said by those who are going
to prosecute the charges against Col
Inns, that sufficient evidence has
been secured to assure a conviction
against Collins on the charges to be
preferred.
Following is the affidavit of Mr..
Film;
Affidavit of B. D. Film.
State OF Arizona. County of
Yuma.~-ss
B. D. Film, being duly sworn, upon
his oath deposes and says:
That he Is a resident OF Parker,
Yuma county, state of Arizona, and
over the age of twenty-one years:
! That on or about the twentieth
day of July, 1917, he was present at
a meeting held in front of the office
of John F. Collins, justice of the
peace Of the Parker precinct, situate
at the lower end Of California ave-
nue., In the town Of Parker, Yuma
county, Arizona, and that there were
also present at said meeting the fol-
lowing named persons: B. 3. Brown,
Walter Nelson, Charles Hosfelt and
A. L. Preston;
That said meeting was for the pur-
pose OF arranging the final details
for the bringing Of criminal actions
against the officers Of the Commercial
Bank Of Parker, to-wit: O. NJ. Spence,
president; r. H. Fuller, cashier, and
Frederick M Hall, director and at
| torney, and for the further reason
that the county attorney, H. Wup-
perman, had been sent for and was
expected in on the morning follow
ing, to-wit: on the twenty-flrst day
Of July,
That at said meeting the plans as
| already set forth in my affidavit OF
October sixteenth, 1917, were further
confirmed, and the agreement OF the
said John F. Collins, justice of the
peace, as aforesaid, to bind the said
! Spence, Fuller and Hall over to the
superior court at the preliminary
hearing to be held On the said twen-
ty-f1rst day of July, and to fix the
bonds of the said Spence at $4,000,
and Of the said Fuller and Hall at
| $4,000 each, was ratified, it being
deemed by all present that the
amounts named would be prohlbitiye
and impossible of procurement, with
the result that said parties would be
committed to the county Jail, at Yu-
ma, pending their trial in said SUI
| perior court:
That Charles Detrick was not
present at said meeting, but had
been notified that such meeting
| would be held, and was met by the
persons named as present at said
meeting on their way uptown after
said meeting, he being then on his
way to meet with said parties, In ac-
cordance with an understanding pre-
viously had between all of the said
parties named; that when met, he,
the said DERRICK, stopped the said
persons named as present at said
meeting, and asked Of them what
had been done, and that he was told
! by the said B, B. Brown that every