Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-04
K|DNAP CASES
 HAVE DUL[EST
 DAY ON RECORD
Prosecution Witnesses Tell of Seeing Sheriff and Deputies Armed at Ball Park on Day That ]. w. w. Were Deported
Especial to The Review.)

ot evidence in the case of the 200 residents of Douglas and Bisbee Charged with Kidnapping in connection with the deportations in the Warren
 district two years ago was resumed
 in Justice W. c. Jacks court in the
 Majestic theatre this afternoon. All
 the states witnesses but one who
 took the stand this afternoon were
 residents from points without the
 county. The day was the dulrest
 since the hearings began.
 The first witness called was M. Cor
 man of Miami, whose testimony was
 to the effect that he had seen Sheriff
 Harry Wheeler with Deputy Sheriff
 "Red" Cannon of Bisbee, in an auto mobile during the deportations. Cor
 man stated that they had a machine
 gun. The defense excused the wit ness without cross-examination
 Thomas N English of Florence. one
 of the men deported, took the stand and said that he saw Deputy Sheriff Charles R. Cross of this city, in com pany with several other men, all armed, at Lowell, and later in the
 ball park at Warren, while they were standing guard over some of the others. He further stated that he had seen Tom Hargis with a six shooter and giving instructions to the guards at Lowell. He also mentioned several armed men who were pres ent at the time whose names are mentioned in the blanket warrent on which the present cases are being heard.
 On being cross-examined by coun- sel for the defense English stated that certain lodgers in the house where he was staying at the time of the trouble were avowed I. W. w.. members, but that he had never had any connection with the organization in any way. He said that he had had no vote in the matter of whether or not the men should strike, but when he learned that they had decid- ed to walk out, he decided to quit work during the trouble. English stated that after he was taken to Columbus, he was guarded for seven days by soldiers and then released. He said he stayed there for two months after this. English was for merly a guard at the state peniten- tiaTy at Florence.
 The next witness was Dominick Casino of Globe. who testified on cross-examination that he had seen John Bello with a gun standing nearl nfh cd men at the Bisbee station. He said that Gerald Sherman had put him on the street car that took him to Warren. Norman Mckenzie, he stat. ed, was one of the guards at the ball park. Casino said that he was not a citizen nor had he ever applied for naturalization papers. Ralph Hart of Hereford, was next called by the county attorney. Hart testified that he had seen the following men during the day of the deportation: Dr. F. c. Bledsoe, Percy Bowden, Ed Dumas, Oscar Gilman, Tom Hargis, Jim Kregbaum, Gerald Sherman, Harry Jacobs, Sheriff Harry Wheeler and Dr. c. H. Hunt. All were armed, he said.
 During his cross-eXamination, Hart was asked to go into the audience and point out Ed Dumas, who he had stated had been the man who had put him in line before being put aboard the train. In spite of the fact that the attorney for the defense in- sisted that Dumas was seated in the house, Hart was unable even after several minutes of close search to recognize him and stated that Dumas must be wearing some kind of dis guise. Hart, questioned as to his said that he was born in Kenner, Nebraska, and was Corn fed and mighty proud of it." He stat ed that at one time he had been al member of the Western Federation of Miners. Hart said that although hoI attended several I. w w. meetings in the Warren district prior to the depor- tations, he had never been connected with the "wobblies" in any way.
 Dan WeitZenfield of Globe, who stated that he was the first man load ed into the cars bound for Columbus. N. Mex, was next called He stated that he had seen Dr. F. c. Pledsoe, Red Cannon, T R. Kelly, R. O. Owens, Gerald Sherman, Sheriff Wheeler, Homer Brakeman and Don Steton, all carrying arms of some kind, on the day of the deportation The witness was vague regarding dates connected with his movements prior to the I. w. W. trouble and was very positive as to what he saw July IT, 1917, the day of the depor- tation. The cross-examination of Weitzenfield will be resumed tomor- rOuy af .a0 ogoIOnIr