Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-03
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and Sandtner are mine shift losses in the Warren district
 The county attorney declared that unless he received word that Swedish was at present en route to Tombstone he would dismiss the cases. With out Swedish as a witness, he declared he would be unable to present a case against the three defendants.
 Following consideration and dis posal of these three cases, the court. with agreement of opposing counsel. set the case of H. E. Wootten. Bis bee hardware merchant, for tomor- row morning. The task of examining prospective jurors to hear the evi- dence will be started at 10 o'clock.
 The complaining witness against Wootten is Fred Brown, one of the 1.1S6 men deported from the Warren district. Since the instigation of pro- ceedings against the Bisbee and Douglas citizens for their alleged par ticipation in the depeItations. Brown has been employed as a deputy sher if in the county attorneys office gathering evidence and securing wit. nesses for the prosecution.
 9ne of the most interested specta- tors during the session today was Harry c. Wheeler, sheriff of Cocnise county at the time of the deporta- tions. Wheeler has repeatedly at tempted to take the responsibility for ordering and directing the deporta- tions. and when given preliminary hearing in Douglas last summer was bound over for trial upon his own le- quest, in spite of the expressed will ingness of the county attorney 10 drop the case against him. To date, how ever no information has heen filed against Wheeler in the superior cour, and he is not one of the 210 defend ants whose cases are now being con sidered.
 When court opened this morning only 122 of the 200 men named of the first jury panel appeared for exam ination. After calling the roll the county attorney read from the statute the qualifications for jurors and the court requested all who wished Ca press claims for exemption 10 step forward. Instantly .fulIT 100 en the men summoned advanced. Maby of the men had insufficient reasons for requesting exemption. but two claims were granted. in all, by Judge Pattee, Is being given permanent and II tenn porary exemption. Six other claims were taken under consideration by the court. leaving But S7 names on the original jury.
 Eight of the men granted eXemp ton from jury duty are themselves defendants in the various civilian and criminal proceedings which have arisen since the deportations.
 The following were found to be- de- fendants in the Kidnapping cases:
 Carl Carlson, Lowell: l.. c. Shat tuck. Bisbee; Win J White. Lowel; Harry F. Lyons. Lowel; A. Nichol son, Lowell; A. w Howe. Bisbee. and John Nelson. Bisbee. The eighth man, l. w. Wallace, is a defendant in one of the civil suits brought by men alleged to have been deported.
 The opening of the cases here has caused Tombstone to take on a sem blance of the life and activity that it boasted in the early days when 1t was the leading silver camp in the west. Every hotel and rooming house is filled to capacity and at meal hours there is a frantic rush from the court house to the various eating places In the little city. The problem of seat ing prospective jurors, attorneys, wit nesses, spectators and newspaper cor respondents in the court room proved a serious one, and about three-fourths of the persons who attended the op- ening session were forced 10 stand up in the aisles and corridors all day.
 The majority of the 210 defendants who are chaEed with Kidnapping in the deportation cases were in court today and many of them indicated their intention of attending every ses- sion. There was a marked difference today in the attitude of the county attorney, his assistants and attorneys for the defense. During the prelim- mary hearings of the Kidnapping charges, in Douglas last summer, spirit of cooperation almost seemed to exist between the opposing attor- neys. but with the opening of the trials this morning it appeared to be a case where all friendship ceased and both sides seemed ready to wage bitter battle during the trials.