Weekly journal-miner., 1919-07-09
ATTORNEY OF WOBBLIES|S JUSTICE IN
 THIS CASE
By Associated Press.


 DOUGLAS, July 7.-Between $ and 100 complaints against people of Cochise county who participated in the deportation of more than HOO al legged members of the l. W. w. and their sympathizers July F, 1917, charging them with kidnapping. will be filed tomorrow before Justice of the Peace Joseph L. Winters of Low ell, a suburb of Bisbee. This was the statement made tonight at Tomb stone by Robert N. French, county attorney of Cochise county, who has prepared the charges.
 Under the Arizona law, indictment by grand jury is not necessary in filing criminal complaints and infor- nations filed by the county attorney before a justice of the peace or the superior court being sufficient.
 MT French refused to state how many complaints he would file alto gether. He said, however. that there would be others than the number filed tomorrow, and these would be prepared and filed as rapidly as pos sible.
 Winters is Interested Judge
 Joseph l.. Winters, the justice of the peace before whom Mr. French proposes to file the cases, is a prac- icing attorney and recently filed 3l. additional suits for damages against the EI PaSo & Southwestern Rail- road Co.,, the Phelps Dodge Mercan- tile Go. and a number of other com panies and individuals in behalf of. men alleging that they were deported on July F, 1917. Each plaintiff asks $5,O0O damages.
 When questioned as to whether the fact that Judge Winters was acting as counsel for plaintiffs in civil ac- tions against some of the men who probably would be arrested, would. prejudice the county against him, as a presiding magistrate in the pro- posed criminal actions, Mir. French replied that it would not.
 The county, he said. was satisfied with Justice Winters a4 a magis- trate, but should any of the defend ants offer objections, they might obtain change of venue.
 Long Discussed Case
 Ever since the morning of July l2, 1917, when l,lS6 mine workers and their alleged sympathizers were for cibly driven from Bisbee, the depor- tationS have been source of discus sion in this state and through the west
 After the deportations the United States grand jury indicted 25 Of the most prominent men in Arizona, copper company officials, county off cers and private citizens on a charge of conspiracy to deprive private citi- zens of their constitutional rights On December 3 last, Judge William w. Morrow of San Francisco, sitting in the United States District court at Tucson, quashed the indictments when the trial was called. The Unit ed States government immediately appealed from Judge Morrow's de. cision and today the case is pending in the Supreme court of the United States.
 The men involved in the charges brought by the federal government include Walter Douglas of New York City, president and general manager of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, owning and operating the Copper Queen Consolidated mines in Bisbee and the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas; Grant H. Dowell, general manager of the Copper Queen Con- soidated Mining company; H. H.. Stout, superintendent of the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas; Robert Rae, auditor for the Phelps Dodge interests in the southwest, and now a prominent Red Cross official in France; Major John C. Greenway, a mining engineer, now major in the United States Engineer corps in