Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-12
Especial to The Review)

TOMBSTONE, March 11.-With the states case completed and the defense preparing for a vigorous fight tomor- TOW morning, when it will endeayor to show that the l. w. w. issue cannot be kept out of the case, interest tonight in the trial of H. F.. Wootton reached the highest pitch since the Case -yas called on February 3rd Wootton is the first of 210 defendants to be drought to trial on a charge of kidnap- ing for alleged participation in the de- portations that ended the l. w. w. strike of copper miners in the Warren District on July 12, 1917
 Fight |. w. w. Exposure
 Although court was in session less than two hours during the entire day, developments came thick and fast. AS was the case during yesterdays ses- sion, the prosecution fought every min ute to keep from the record any testi- mony concerning the Industrial Work CTS of the World, while the defense was equally vigorous in its attempt to make the l. w. w. the big -5sue of the trial.
 The biggest surprise of the day came a few minutes before the noon recess, when the state announced that Il rested it's case. Out of 3S witnesses called and sworn in by the state yes terday morning, only four had been examined when the prosecution an nounced that it desired to introduce no further evidence at the present. The witnesses who had testified for the state were Fred w. Brown, the complaining witness against Wootton; Thomas c. Green and Freeman Crouch two men who were deported and L. II. Bernard
 Browns testimony, given yesterday. was considered the most important against Wootton, although it lacked the sensations that had been expect ed Brown testified that Wootton had placed him under arrest at Bisbee on the morning of the deportations. After he boarded the train that later carried he and the other deportees to Colum- bus, Brown said, he saw Wootton standing between the train and the ball park at Warren, Arizona, nolo:ng rifle. These were the only times on which he had seen the defendant, Brown said
 Throws Out Testimony
 Considerable of the testimony given by Brown yesterday was stricken from the records today by order of Judge Pattee. This testimony related to Browns return to Bisbee from Colum- bus and to his arrest on charge of vagrancy. The defense objected to this testimony yesterday on the ground that it did not affect Wootton and had occurred more than a month after the Kidnapping charged in the In dictment. The testimony was allowed by the court, however when the state made avowal that it would prove the incident to be directly connected with the entire transaction of the deporta- tion. In ordering this testimony stIick en this afternoon, the court ruled that the prosecution had not lived up to this avowal and had not connected the incident in any way with the alleged transaction of the deportations.
 Wages Not Issue
 During arguments made yesterday tending to support the propriety of ev- idence concerning the l. w. w., which the defense put to states witnesses during cross examination, Frank Cur ley, assistant chief counsel for the de fense, informed the court that the de- fense expected to prove that the I. w. w. strike at Bisbee in the summer of 1917 was not called for higher wages or better conditions. but for the pur- pose of bringing to head an elabor- ate and extensive conspiracy on the part of the Industrial Workers of the World to hamper the government in the prosecution of the war against Germany and overthrow the govern ment of the United States. .
 The legal battle to decide whether the defense will be allowed to present testimony and evidence bearing out these allegations again occupied half the session of court today. without 8 decision being reached on the subject. It will again come up tomorrow morn-