Arizona republican., 1919-07-25
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Witnesses for Prosecution Testify The I. w. w. Was Ruling Body at Bisbee at Time of Deportations = Preliminary Hearings to Require Two Months
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DOUGLAS, July 24.-Testimony that membership while the Western Feder ation of Miners local of the American Federation of Labor almost ceased to exist in the Warren district during the labor trouble at Bisbee two years age was given by witnesses for the state today at the preliminary hearing of J. c. Ryan, county highway engineer, one of the 250 Douglas citizens charged with Kidnapping as a result of the | w. w. deportations on July F, 1917.
 J. F. Holman, testifying for the prosecution, and several other men who were among those deported, told from the witness stand of having left the Federation of Miners to join the l. w. w after the Industrial Workers of the World had attempted to call out all the copper miners in the Bisbee district Vigorous objection was of fered by Robert N. French, the county attorney, when Holman was asked if it were not true that during the Bisbee trouble the I. W. w. had launched a vigorous campaign to wean away members of the Western Federation. After a heated debate between the state and the defense, Holman was allowed to answer a similar question He said he could not swear that such action was taken by the I. w. w, but that he knew that during the trouble at Bsbee the l. w. w. made big gains in membership, while the Western Federation local practically ceased to exist.
 Testimony All the Same
 The testimony against Ryan and Jess and William Toland, whose pre- liminary hearings were also heard to- day, differed but little from that given during other hearings conducted here during the last week. Each of the score of witnesses called by the state testified to having seen the defendants with other armed citizens who took part in the deportations on the day of the roundup. None of the witnesses testified to having seen any of the de- fgendants use any violence while mak- ing the arrests.
 As in previous hearings, attorneys for the citizens charged with kidnap- ping introduced no witnesses, and, in the hearing of William Toland, ex- cused all the states witnesses without questioning them.
 Will Take Two Months
 It was estimated today that, at the present rate, two months at least must elapse before hearings are completed for all the Bisbee and Douglas citizens arrested for alleged participation in the deportation.
 Nineteen prominent Douglas men will be arrested Saturday by Sheriff James McDonaJd. who is in this city preparing to finish the service of the blanket warrant charging kidnapping. The local men named on the warrant are:
 Robert Rae. auditor for the Phelps Dodge corporation; Dr. F. L. Mead ows, J. P. Ferguson, w. H. Fisher, James H. East. former chief of police: John R. Bouldin, Ben Cooley, Percy Bowden and Charles Cross, former deputy sheriff; Bob Hilburn, Cecil Adams, B. Roland, Dick Neil, Frank Byrd. Charles Deering, J. G. Dietrick, Leonard McWhorter, Percy W. Wilson and Al. Clarkson.
 Bond of s2,000 has already been pre- pared for the defendant in each case.
 Three Hearings Today
 Preliminary hearings will be con- tinued before Justice w. c. Jack to- morrow morning, when the. cases of Bassett Watkins, city councilman of Bisbee; Bert Policy. constable at Bis bee at the time of the deportations. and Phil Tovrea are called