Weekly journal-miner., 1918-04-24
FALSE ARREST IS CAUSE OF BIG
 DAMAGE SUIT
VERDE AUTO DEALER IS DEMANDING $10,0OO OF PHOENIX MAN BECAUSE LATTER HAD HIM PUT IN JAIL IN PRESCOTT.
CFrom Tuesdays Dailyl

mobile dealer Ot the Verde district, yesterday filed a suit in the Superior court asking for Sl0,000 damages against Cal Mcssner, Phoenix auto man, the complaint alleging that the defendant was responsible for the false arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff on March 2. 1917.
 Thomas states in his complaint that on the day preceding his arrest Mess ner filed charges against him in a justice court at Mayer, alleging that Thomas had stolen a Hudson car and sold it. Thomas was arrested at Will Hams and brought to the Prescott jail handcuffed to the officer who de- | livered him. He was compelled to remain in jail here for three or four charges against him, resulting in his being set free. For the humiliation which he was compelled to undergo by reason of' being taken into GUS tody and placed in jail. Thomas asks for punitive damages in the above mentioned sum.
 Wants Pay For Services ]. William Waara, a civil engineer of this city, yesterday filed suit against w. H. Tharpe. seeking to re- cover the sum of S373 as payment for services which the complainant all lcges that he performed for the de- fendant at the latter's request.
 Waara alleges in his complaint that he performed professional services for Mir Thorpe between March ?. 1915, and April 23rd of the same wear, and that Tharpc agreed to pay him the sum of $273 therefor. The defendant is said to have given the plaintiff a check for this amount drawn on the Commercial Bank of Parker. The check later came back containing the notation that there was an insuficIcncy of funds. Tharpe when asked by the plaintiff about the matter, agreed to give Waara an ad- ditional SlO0 if the latter would give him a little extra time in which to make the check good Tharpe is said to have neglected to pay the extra Sl00 or the S273 either, and the suit asks that a judgment be rem dered against him for the combined amount.
 Divorce Decree Granted
 Judge Sweeney yesterday after noon granted a decree of divorce to Mrs. Dora L. Brennan. the lady hay irg charged her husband George Brennan. with desertion and failure to provide.
 Insanity Charge
 Judge Sweeney yesterday issued bench warrant calling for the arrest of w R. Ward. the man having dc velopcd signs Of insanity. He has been residing in the Castle Creek dis trict, and so far as is known. has no living relatives. The complaint was signed by County Attorney Ha- worth.
 Would Administer Estate
 Attorney R. F. Morrison yesterday filed a petition with the court ask ing that he be named as administra- tor of the estate of the late Paul II. Leonard, who died in June, 1917. The sole asset of the estate, according to the petition, consists of a claim for g 500 against the Consolidated Ari- zona Smelling Company of Hum boldt, Leonard having been killed while at work in the plant Of that corporation.
 Shea Gets Judgment
 D. J. Shea, a Jerome merchant, was yesterday given judgment for the sum of S23665 against T. J. Perry, the court costs also being charged against the defendant. The court di- rectcd that a lien and attachment which Shea held against the prop erty of the defendant be foreclosed at once to satisfy the judgment.
 Bootlegger Arraigned
 James R. Murphy was arraigned yesterday in the Superior court on a bootlegging charge and entered al plea of guilty. He will be sentenced at ten o'clock this morning. Mur- phy recently gained more or less fame by escaping from the Prescott jail in company with three other prisoners The man had been all lowed the freedom of the jail corri- dors and succeeded in saving out a bar in the cast window. The three other men were never captured, but Murphy was nabbed at kingman sev- cral weeks ago at the request of the local officers He was traced there by means of a suitcase which he had had one of his friends send in a roundabout manner to his address. While he was in jail at Kingman one of his pals attempted to slip him a set of saws with which to make a getaway but while hanging about the AIohavc county bastile the sheriff caught him. arrested him on a charge of attempting to aid in a jailbreak, and succeeded in getting the man sent to Florence penitentiary for a term of two years.
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