Tombstone epitaph., 1920-04-04
MONDAY
WHEELER TELLS OF DEPoRrA-
 TON ON THE WITNESS STAND

The afternoon session of court in the Wootien case was taken up most. H by the testimony Of Capt Harry Wheeler. sheriff of the county dur ins the deportation. following the completion of reading of dispositions and offering of documents. on which the court reserved rulings until a lat CT date. The questioning of former Sheriff Wheeler continued until a short time before five o'clock. when the witness was turned over to the state for cross-examination and fol lowing a brief conference the court recessed until l0 o'clock tomorrow morning
 The gist of the testimony of Mir Wheeler. was substantially as follows. and was interpersed with objections from the state. and rulings of the court:
 Told Of official capacities in Co., chise county since 1901. having serv- ed six years as ranger. -one year ss deputy |. $. marshal, over a year in the customs service and six years as sheriff of Cochise county. first knew of disturbance in Bisbee on June 26 1917 when he received a telegram from A $. Embree that strike was 10 be called and asked how he would stand; received almost similar mes sage from Captain John Greenway: went to Bisbee and issued statement through the press as to stand he would take. was met by number of citizens and was offered offices in the C. c. dispenssry building in cen ter of district where he could ob- serve matters; started investigations went among nsnnle: first day CT :v0 found everybody in state of subdued excitement: after first few days re- ports began 10 come in from various parts of district of men complaining of lunch pails being taken away from them while enroute to work; telephone message of women threat ening 10 dynamite houses if husoanos did not cease work; did not remem- Der names but could go to houses saw strikers, mostly of foreign ex. traction and asked why they were making trouble and stopping copper production and they invariably re- piled that now is the time the gov ernment is in trouble and now is the time to make trouble and compel the government to take over the mines;H that their brothers in the north in the lumber camps and those in the south in the wheat and cottou fields do their parts: that he desired 70 smooth over trouble and tried tc bring about peace in the district without avail; had attended strike meetings and heard speakers talk and say that when they got s6 and al hour day they would then go after Ss and a hour day and then s1( and a hour day and there would be no agreements; that red but ton was better than a Liberty Bond and ito hell with the draft; one ot main counsels for l. w. w, Wm Cleary tald him that fl he had boy old enough to go to war he woult ship him out of the country first Mexicans in columns of had march ed to I. w w. headouarters for pro visions, mostly all strangers to him he knew that the Mexicans had ruI Americans out of Cananea and hat heard a Mexican yell over the should CT of man with lunch pail; wv ran you out of Cananea and we vii run you out of here; remembered the mans name as Dorame.
 Here County Attorney French Wal reprimandea by the court for his al ytituee when the county attorney en tered into an argument with the cour over rulings on objections and for time the court entered objections oi the part of the state when the tria proceeded.
 Wheeler continued by saying tha he heard another thing which h. could not say on account of the pres epce of ladies and when the ladie' were retired from the court room re cited an epithet he had heard hurle' at the U. s. Government by a maj vbo said they would do the same t <h> Knitted States: had arrested hin