The daily morning oasis., 1920-03-11
AGAINST THE UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT"
is ALLEGED BY THE
E:.FENCE IN The
TRIAL OF THE DEPORTATION CASE NOW
STAGED IN SUPERIOR COURT OF COCHISE
COUNTY AT TOMBSTONE. A FAR REACHING
CASE WITH MANY RAMIFICATIONS. u

roofs. Her dance halls flashed with
frontier beauties. Stories are still
told of gambling tables groaning un-
der cold zone hundred thou" which
came from the scores of mines that
freckle the hillsides, but are now
abandoned.
But today there is nothing left but
a romantic, colorful and, perhaps,
pathetic vista of adobe ruins-Tomb-
stone-with less than 1000 people.
The, town is without electric lights,
gas or any other conveniences of mo-
dern times. .Burros bray in Tough
Nut street, seemingly to mock the
crows that cav welcome first to
luxurious. automobile driving up per-
haps with a wealthy defendant, and
then to cowboy, who rides his pony
to the courthouse and leaves it with
the lariat coiled on the saddle.
The unwritten law of the west has
stalked into the case already with
the shooting of a juror by neigh
Dor. The neighbor said his victim
had left open gate on his cattle
range. If this is proved it will go
far to justify the shooting.
One mans mind has snapped and he
has killed himself. His makeup
could not stand the change when he
was brought from the heavy silence
of the desert to the intense court
room.
Through five long weeks of jury
picking, these points have worked to
the surface:
Harry E. Wooten, prosperous hard
ware man, the first defendant to be
tried, will face jury of prospectors
from the mountains, farmers strug-
Cling to exc out an existence from
parched homesteads, and cowboys,
fresh from the burning sun and wind
of the desert range. Wooten will be
defended by a staff of lawyers from
metropolitan courts, brought here at
a cost written in six figures. They
are adroit, suave and eloquent. They
have learned law through many hard
battles.
Wootten will be prosecuted by men
who might have stepped out of a
western novel.
A. A. Worsley, a. big man with
long, white hair, is the special pros
ecutor. He is a desert philosopher,
who speaks in homely spigrams and
figures of speech dealing with water
holes and stolen cattle.
Bob French, tall, frock-coated, a
North Carolinan, whose drawl brings
thoughts of southern colonel, is the
county prosecutor.
Assisting them are George Roark,
who all his life has been frontier
man, and Joe Hansen, young, hard
working idealist.
On the bench sits Judge Sam Pat
tee, small man, whose muu.h is hid
den aeneath a heavy mocstache. lie
is sharp-eyed and quiet. With him
patristisn and love of country are
almost a fetish. His attitude, often
from the bench, has caused
the defense to intensity it's effort to
inject the issue of Americanism as
against alleged revolutionary doc
trines of the l. w. w.
The defense will contend that the
Bisbee strikers were starting an in
;lplent revolution to cut off the cop
per supply necessary for a success
Iul prosecution of the war. The pros
ecution, on the other hand, has an
no l. w. w. will go on the
witness stand and no man will be
prosecuted for putting an 1. w. w.
aboard the deportation special"
The fact that dispositions have been
aiken in Chicago, Butte, New York,
Seattle and at almost every center
If industrial conflict indicates the
vide ramifications of the case.
"rhe outstanding point in this
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