Tombstone epitaph., 1920-04-25
MONDAY

~ior 10 tne deportation marked this
afternoons session Of the Superior
court in the Wootten kidnapping
trial.
Court convened at 1880 following d
recess since Saturday and the cross
examination of wm. Barney started
Saturday afternoon was completed by
defense. Barney admitted he was on
the picket lines two or three times
but heard no abusive language ou:-
side Of loud talking. He said 1t look
ed like the strikers were going TO
win. He told about returning to Bis
bee from Columbus to answer the
draf; and TO being questioned by
Capt. Wheeler. He did not vote for
the strike. he said but was in sym
pathy with IT, He said he saw one
man struck on the 18th. but saw
no other violence.
Harry Rapier was the next wit
ness, who described how number
OF men came to his home on the
morning of the 18th, corroboratiry
the testimony of his brother-in-law
WIN. Barney. both living in the same
house His testimony was about the
same as that of his brother-in- law
He said he quit work after the me-
chanics voted not 20 strike and lived
in the same apartment hc6Ee with
Ben X Webb. l. W W strike leader
bu, was not advised by him to quit.
He did not belong 10 any organiza-
tion, he said.
Mrs. Rapier, his wife. followed him
on the stand and corroberated the
testimony OF her husband
Ben Reed. another man who was
deported was on the stand for con-
siderable time He told of leaving
his home to go down town and was
stopped in Tombstone Canyon al the
point OF gun and made to get into
line and was taken 10 Warren and
loaded into a box car and shipped 10
Columbus. He was in Columbus ur-
ill the last OF August. when he re-
turned in answer 10 a wire from his
sife that he was drafted. His wife
met him at Douglas he said and To-
ge;her they returned by auto to
Bisbee. Guards stopped them a;
Forest, he said and told him to re-
por: to Sheriff Wheeler, which he
did next morning. Wheeler wanted
20 know Why he was sent there. ha
testified. and wanted to know if ne
was going back TO work. lie replied
that he would never work again in
Bisbee, and Wheeler said he looked
like a pretty nice boy and if he had
known him before the deportation he
would have deputiZed him TO help
deport the men, said the witness.
When he replied that he never would
have done that, he said Wheeler toll
him: You had better treat me
right, am on the exemption board"
HIS definition of scab, was a man
who worked during strike, and one
that worked didn't amount to much
he thought. he didn't know il was
an !. W. W. strike, he said, ami
didn't care as long as the worke-s
were out.
Mrs. Reed followed Dim. and told
how four men came to her home and
entered her room and searched the
whole house before she was out OF
bed that morning. One OF them was
Mr.. Frankenberg, she said. Failing
10 tin0 ner nuSDdnu tucy itii, anu
she dressed and went down town
and inquiring about what became of
the men she learned that they were
at the ballpark at Warren and went
down to find her husband. She was
sirst refused admittance to the ball
park, but was helped by Red Can
non, she said and found her hus-
band and stayed with him until he
was loaded onto the cars. She then
corroberated the testimony given by
her husband with reference to re-
turning for the draft
r. L. Crawford, who worked for
the c. 4 A. said he went out on
strike when it was called, although
he did not know who called II, but he
had never scsbbed and never would
and he had been in many mining
camps. He was HE over the head
with . club he said, until the blood