The Arizona copper camp., 1918-12-07

Sensational allegations concerning
| the transactions of James Po;iaru,
! mining man of Ray and Phoenix,
were features of the hearings of the
suit brought by. W. w. Lawhon, Phoe-
/ nix broker, for what he claims to be
| his share of the proceeds of Pcilard's
| interest in a contract lease entered in
to between C. E. Addams and the Ray
| Silver Lead Mining company of this
district The suit was heard by Judge
Lyman of the superior court of Mari
copa county, this week, and submitted
to him for decision on Thursday.
A great deal of the hearing was
taken up in an attack by the prosecu-
| tion against Pollards general repu-
tation for truth and veracity, and 1t
was in connection with this phase of
the case that a number of residents
of Ray were called to the stand. On
Wednesday, witnesses introduced to
! impeach Pollard's reputation included
Jack Heating, foreman of the Ray
! Con Copper company here, DR., r. G..
Fowler and Jack Hollands, original
| stockholders in the Ray Silver Lead
Mining company, and Leo Alldredge,
deputy clerk of the superior court of
Maricopa county. Fowler and Rollands
swore on the witness stand that Pol
lard's reputation for truth and YER
acity was not very good. Alldredge
testified that Pollard's reputation was
bad, and that he would not believe
him under OATH VIM. F. Gordon, a
local mining engineer, testified to the
same thing, and Keating's testimony
was also to this effect.
Keatina is Emphatic
The testimony became sensational
when Geo. Purdy Bullard, attorney for
Pollard, in cross examining Heating
asked Keating if it was not a fact
that Pollard had compelled him to
l get uOWu Ou HIS hllOOo Ol1 IAO OA0OW OAHa
! in the streets of Ray and apologize
for his past treatment. Heating, who
could apparently wipe UP the earth
with several men of Pollard's size
fairly lthundered his denials of Bul
lard's question.
Ray Men On Stand
On Thursday morning the defense
introduced Charles Jacobs, Ernest j
Richards, for two years a resident OF
Ray, w. C. Foster of the Phoenix Saw
ings Bank Trust company, A. A. Ray
a mining man formerly Of this district
&c. G. Thomnson,~a Phoenix insurance
man, Ezra w. Thayer, Phoenix mer
chant, Judge Ernest Lewis Of Phoe
nix, C. E. Adams, formerly Of Ray
and Charles H. Harter; for three and
a half years a resident Of Ray. In each
case the witnesses for Pollard testi
fed that they knew Of his reputation
for truth and veracity and that same
was good, or at least that they hac
never heard same questioned. Most
of them had never heard it discussed
Richards Testifies
Ernest J. Richards, now of Phoenix
but for two years an electrical engi
neer employed here, testified that Pol
llard's reputation was good. On cross
examination he admitted that he had
not heard it discussed, nor had he
heard a report to the effect that Pol
lard had contracted to sell to VIM
Graham of Phoenix group known as
the Little Bobbie group of claims rep
resenting that he was the owner o1
the property and that later it devel
oped when the transfer was to be
made that Pollard did not own all the
property and that Graham was com
PEELED to settle with the owners. Rich
ards also testified that he had not
heard of Pollard's alleged transactions
with the Marchant Calculating Ma
chine company of Oakland, Calf. He
was then questioned concerning re
port that Pollard had represented to
the Ray Silver Lead Mining company
that he owned certain property and
that after the transaction was com
pleted that the Ray Silver Lead Min
ing company had to settle with the
Indian Springs Mining company fol-
some Of the property. A similar stu
alton in which Heating and Crowley
turned out to have an interest In
which Pollard had represented to be
his, was also brought up. Richards
testified that he had heard nothing
concerning this report.
w. C. Foster of the Phoenix Savings
Bank & Trust company said he had
known Pollard since the latter part
of 1915 or the early part of 1916. He