Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-03
EXPLOITATION IF MOTHERS GRIEF
 ASSORTED TOBY PROSECUT|ONAT
 JOINT DEPORTAT|ONCA CASE HEARING
SpatheS of Defendants and Their Attorneys Go Out To Mrs. Nancy Thomas Called From Missouri Home to Testify For County Attorney; Son Killed in France, Mother Points
 to Tucson and Fl PaSo AyS As Active in His Deportation

district. At last she admitted that he was neither of these and that she did not know who he was.
 As this procedure was repeated g number of times. Mrs. Thomas would always add, But he was one of the men who drove my boy away" Ere quently she denounced the defend ants as "dirty curs' and dirty ras calls"
 Arouses Defendants Sympathies.
 As the grief-stricken woman made mistake after mistake in her at. tempts to identify the men against whom she testified, her situation be- came more pitifM and the sympathies of all the defendants and the wives of many of them who were present went out to her. It was thought that the county attorney might ask that the witness be excused and her tes. timony stricken from the records, but the cross-examination continued until the witness was excused by MT Burgess, after her testimony had heen almost completely shattered.
 Mrs Thomas was bitter against the men whom she named. Once she faced the defendants and cried dramatically, "They were all there. they all have the same sheer on their faces, you can smell them. There isn't one good man in the bunch"
 Says Attorneys Were There.
 At another time when she was de- claTing that she would never forget the men she had seen, she cried, And l saw you, and you and you,' pointing to Attorney Frank Curley of Tucson, Mir. Burgess of Fl Paso, and John Sanders of Bisbee, counsel for the defense. Each of the attorneys stood up and the witness confidently told of having seen them taking part in the deportations, even going so far to describe the dress and arms carried by each one on the day.
 She did not know many of the men against whom she testified. admitted rhe witness, but had been given their names by other persons. All of the defendants she denounced as the men who were responsible for her boys death She was particularly bitter against those of the defend ants who had served in the army overseas and returned safely to their homes.
 Half a dozen of the defendants whom Mrs. ThOmas told of having seen in various encounters during the deportation were stood up in front of her. but the witness did not recognize them.
 Testimony Badly GarbIed.
 After Mrs. Thomas cross-examina- tion had been completed her testi- mony was filled with so many dis, crepancies and cases of her inability to identify the men against whom she testified that the county attorney did not attempt redirect examina- tion.
 Mrs. Thomas Is said to have been one of the witnesses on whose ac- count the joint hearing was several weeks ago postponed until the county attorney could get authority for bringing her to Douglas from Mis- souri,
 Robert Rae, w H. Brophy and Jack Radcliffe, three of the defend ants ir the big hearing who were unable to get to Douglas at the start on account of being delayed in Cali fornia by the railroad strike, return ed to their homes Sunday and Mon day and were on hand at the hearing today