Arizona republican., 1920-02-01

 TRIALS OPEN
 AT TOMboTO ONE

cases will be started in the superior
 court here at 10 o'clock Monday morn
 tng when the first panel Of 200 pros-
 pective jurors will report to Judge
 Samuel l.. Pattee, Of Pima county who
 VIII preside in the Cochise county court
 While the eases are being heard.
 The first three cases set for trial
 are those of Fred Sandtner and James
 Boyd, mine shift bosses of the Warren
 mining district, and Phil Tovrea. Bis
 bee meat dealer, all charged with kid
 naping for their alleged participation
 In the deportations which. on July F, 1917, ended the I. w. W. strike in the
 Warren district and resulted in HOO
 alleged l. W. W. members and sympa
 thlzers being rounded up, placed in box
 cars and carried from Warren. Ariz., to Columbus, N. NJ.
 Interest in the cases has been so pro- nounced throughout Cochise county that it is expected that it will require at least several days before. a jury is secured for the first three cases. At the direction of the superior court the name of every man in the county eligible for jury duty has been drawn. from the jury box, giving q total Of more than 7500 persons who may be called upon for examination.
 Prosecution of the cases is being conducted by County Attorney Robert H. French who was elected to office since the deportations took place The defense will be in the hands Of ". IT. Burges of Fl Paso. Frank l.. Curley of Tucson, and ". G. Gilmore of Tomb stone.
 There are 21O cases in all to he tried as the result of the filing of the kid naDing charges. Practically all of the defendants are residents of the Warren district, which includes Bisbee. Low ell, Warren, BakervilIe and several other small mining towns, and Douglas. A check Of the list of defendants shows that the greater majority of them are miners muckers, merchants. profes- sional men and mine officials of the Warren district, which. for several weeks preceding the deporta tions was the scene of a strike of copper miners called by the Metal Mine Workers union, the mining branch Of the h. dustriaI Workers of the World.
 There is no page in the history of Arizona more unique or picturesque than that describing the Bisbee de- portauons. How Harry C. Wheeler, then sheriff of Cochise county, depu- tized approximately 1000 citizens on the night of July II. and in the early morning of July F. 1917. and person ally directed the rounding up of the alleged trouble makers and their sym pathlzerS before the sun had hardly made it's appearance over the Mule on that day, probably will be re-told for years to come.
 And now, after two years and half, 1 the question of whether the deporta- ton was legally right or wrong will be | decided in court. Since the prosecu- ton of the alleged deporters was | started last summer. several peculiar | angles have been assumed by the cases. | One of these is the attitude of the | county attorney toward Wheeler. The | ex-sheriff during the deportations and [ ever since, has openly declared that he | ~f7 q rpd r~,sIf md deportation of the HOO men who were sent to Columbus. Wheeler has repeatedly asserted that he was ready f 0 assume the full blame for the inci- lent
 Several months following the de- Dortations Wheeler, q veteran of the Spanish American war. went to France IS captain in the A. F. F. When he 1eard that prosecutions of the citizen deputies who aided him on July F vas being urged by various elements, Wheeler cabled from France that he considered himself responsible for the Incident and offered to stand the full blame for it.
 Upon his return from service over teas, Wheeler reiterated these state nents. When warrants charging the defendants with Kidnapping were issued asst July. Wheeler was one of those )laced under arrest. When his prelm- nary hearing was called, the county attorney announced that he was will ng to drop the case against Wheeler, ,ut the ex-sheriff again took the re- for the deportations and, lpon his own request, was bound over or trial. Approximately 300 Bisbee md Douglas men were named on the lriginal warrants. During the prelim- nary hearings. held in Douglas during asst August and September. no wit esses were introduced by the defend
 
 heir cases finally decided in the su : erior court. Following the preliminary hearings, | were filed in the superior 1 ourt against 210 Of the defendants. l so charge has been filed against ( in spiteJof his admitted con- ection with the deportations. All of l he defendants entered pleas of not ' uilty when arraigned before Judge ( 'attee on January 21 f The following is q list of the defend q nts in the Kidnapping cases: i Harry Walters, miner: H. T.. Wooten. ardware merchant; Phil Tovrea, meat c ealer; Fred Sandtner, mine shift f oss; James Boyd, mine shift boss; | rthur HOule mine superintendent, Y hattuck-Arizona Copper company; t essett Watkins, city councilman. Bis ! ee; Henry Benton, miner: sam Frank t nburg, merchant; Cass Benton, miner; C William White, Mexican labor boss; 1 D larry Anderson. mine shift boss; J. s Hodgson. manager Morenci branch il helps-Dodge corporation; Bert Pol | y, ex-constable. Bisbee; Allie Howe, h sheriff: Frank Salmon, mine h atehman; George Scott, miner Jess u oland mine shift boss; V. C. Naval .tte. miner; Oscar Wager, mine elec- c -ician: E. C. Williams, watchman: 2 iddy Doyle, hotelman; Ned White q inc fuse man; Joe CoIford. mine ef- Il ciency director; Henry Bohmfolk, le sputy sheriff; William Poland under h -ound mine superintendent: John Il ngius, merchant; J r. Henderson. mber merchant; John Rainey, mine b. lift boss: Gerald sherman. mining D lgineer; l.. c. Jackson, shoe clerk;
 Cunningham. banker: James GIas- h. n, miner: George Medigovitch, mer- st Iant: ]. R. McAleer. clerk; Joe Ham, e ick. miner;s John Hambfick. miner; rs mes Manson. mine shift boss; Oscar fl lman shift boss: w P Simrns h ntfst: Alec Nichols, night mine fore II an. Burrell Slaughter rancher: Al D, -omer shift boss; N. C. Bledsoe, of lief surgeon, Calumet and Arizona al ;uiYsr cOupany. John SoutherIand m