Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-09-15
FINAL CHAPTER
FOR |, ". ", NOW
IS " R|TTEN IN
WARREN DISTRICT
Men Returning From CoIum-
bus Are Promptly Arrested
by Sheriff Wheeler on Va
grancy Warrants.
CAN ESCAPE JAIL BY
PROMPTLY LEAVING
Embree Is Held for Inciting
Riot and Is lnCarCerated in
Little Jail Under Track at
Lowell,
CAN ESCAPE JAIL BY
PROMPTLY LEAVING


Bisbee. Ariz., Sept. 14.-Bisbee to-
night is writing the final chapter in
the history of the I. w. w. movement
in the Warren district.
With the same systematic method
which characterized the wholesale,de-
portation of approximately 1900 al
legged |. w. w. members on July IL.
Sheriff Harry C. Wheeler, his depu-
ties and the citizens continued ar
resting the deportees today as fast as
they arrived in the district from the
detention camp at Columbus. One
hundred have been arrested since
Wednesday, when the exodus from the
exile camp at Columbus started west
ward toward the Warren district.
Arrested Promptly.
Sixty-five We're arrested at Douglas
Osborn Forest ranch and along other
trails eatering Blshee today. As ran-
idly as they are rree.ed by deputy
sher.rfs they are Brought here, formal
charges of vagrancy are made against
them in the police court, Judge F. e.
Thomas continues their cases until
they are given time to gather their
personal effects and they are then
told by the police court the charges
will not be pushed if they leave the
Only one man, r. G. Noble, failed to
fulfill this condition and he was found
guilty on technical charge of va
grancy late today by Judge Thomas
and was released on bond. The usual
penalty fixed by the police court is
ninety days in Jail.
Can Remain With Families.
Six married men, whose families
live in the district, were told today by
Sheriff Wheeler that they may remain
in the district as long as they behaved
themselves and complied with the
laws. However, they are expected to
leave as 1t is known that none of the
mining companies will give any of
them employment.
The twelve alleged slackers who
failed to report for examination for
the selective draft were held in jail
after being permitted to gather their
belongings and they will be taken to
Tombstone, the county seat, tomor.
row to answer charges of falling to
report for the draft.
Embrcc Is Held.
The one exception to the rule that
married men may remain in camp un-
molested was made in the case OF A. ).
Embree. alleged to be the leader of
the |. w. WIS in the Columbus camp
and himself an admitted l. w. w. and
leader of the strike here.
AS soon as he arrived in Douglas
this morning he was arrested and
later brought here by Shdhff Wheeler
in his automobile.
81 have a warrant for you, charg-
Ing you with melting riot on or
about July H. Sheriff Wheeler told
Embree.
"You may think you were sincere
and were doing right in deporting us
on July 12, but consider you law
breaker yourself Embree told the
little sheriff with a flash of resent
ment.
In Jail at Lowell.
Emhrae was the only inmate of the
Lowell Jail. which is no bigger than
a kitchenette, and is located directly
under an overhead railroad bridge OF
the Southwestern system.
When seen in Jail tonight by an AS
sociated Press staff CORRESPONDENT,
Embree, a Newfoundlander by birth
but who claims American citizenship.
showed his I. w. W. red card" and
an old one which he still had with
him. He said he was still an I. w. w.
but that .'thn T. w W.'s are not very
active in Bisbee just now"
Embree admitted having been ar
rested recently and tried in Deming,
N. M, on vagrancy charge. He said
Attorney w. B. Cleary of Bisbee, who
was deported on July IL, came from
Los Angeles to defend him and he
had been acquitted. although he said
Eugene Smith, who he said had $4,000
in Columbus bank, was sentenced toI
so days in jail on the same charge at
Tanning