The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-02
TOMBSTONE IS
VERY LIVELY.
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Arizona Town Boomi lday
on Account Of Trial Ter
One Hundred M 6
Bisbee. e
MAY NOT SECUI g JURY
Men are Charged With apping
Thousand Workers at bly,
Taking Them Out Of
State.
MAY NOT SECUI
lBy M. D. Tracy, United Press Staff
Correspondent

lby M. ~. tracy, UnlIeQ ITeSS otdLl
Correspondent]
TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Feb. 2.-The
prosecution in the big Bisbee depor-
tation trials, which are to open to.
day, is expected to call the case of
$50 persons jointly indicted to be
tried first. The remainder Of the 2l2
defendants are separately indicted.
The defense is expected TO ask
separate trials for each man named
in the joint indictment. Under the
Arizona law, separate trials must be
granted if demanded. Such a demand
would mean hundreds Of trials at
great expense to the county.
Authorities have planned to search
everyone, including the defendants,
for weapons before they are allowed
to enter the court room.
The atmosphere here Is tense, but
everything is quiet and orderly.
The trial has doomed Tombstone.
Every room has been taken. The
movies have announced that they will
show different pictures nightly, in
stead of changing their programs
| twice week, as ordinarily. Soda
fountain men have hired three addt-
tional clerks to take care OF the
! rush.
1t Is generally estimated that the
trial cannot be finished in less than
q month and that two weeks at least
will be required to choose jury.
Some doubt has been expressed
that it will be possible to get jury
at all. r. d.. --.
Estimates place the total wealth
OF the indicted men at a quarter bill
lion dollars. Among the most proml-
nent are DR.. N. C. Bledsoe, head ply
slcan Of the Calumet Mining COM
pany; Sheriff Douglas; J. J. Bowen,
automobile dealer Of Bisbee; j. e.
Brophy, garage man OF Lowell; K. A.
Clampitt. former assistant postmas-
ter of Bisbee; H. H. Dowell. general
manager of the Phelps-Dodge corpo.
ration; Jake Erickson, mayor or Bis
bee; Tom Eagen, secretary or the
Bisbee Commercial club; L. l.. Gil
man, jeweler of Bisbee; John =.
Greenway, general manager for Ari-
IONA Of the Calumet Mining COM
pany; Walter Hubbard, undertaken,
Bisbee; J. A. Kempton, chief OF police
Of Bisbee: Fred McKinner. editor OF
the Bisbee Ore; Miles Merrill, head
of the Mormon church in Arizona;
Nose Newman, merchant OF Blsbee;
Robert Rea, president Of the Douglas
Bank of Commerce.; G. w. Ruth, sec
retary Of the Business Mems asso'
citation, Douglas; John Steffer, Bis
bee contractor; Lem Shattuck, mine
manager; E. A. Tovrea, packer, OF
Bisbee.
All of the above were indicted
o1n Jln6pn Cnmnany
also was indicted as corporation.
The maximum penalty under the
charge of kidnapping, under which
charge these indictments were re-
turned, is Imprisonment from one to
ten years in the penitentiary or
fine of $4,000 to $4,000, or both.
Judge Sam l.. Pattee, Of Pima coun-
ty, H., will hear the trials. The
prosecuting attorney is Bob French.
The first jury panel contains 5000
names.
The men are charged with kidnap-
ping over 1900 persons and torcloly
taking them into the state OF New
Mexico.
Courtroom is damned.
TOMBSTONE. AriZ., Feb. with
a courtroom jammed with two nun
dred defendants and the jury panel,
trial of the Bisbee deportation cases
started this morning. Court convened
at nine o'clock when the jury roll was
called and qualifications Of the jurors
were read.
IAN those who believe they should
he excused from jury duty under the
provisions of the law will now step
TO the clerks desk and present their
claims" Judge s. l.. Pattee announc-
ed. Sixty per cent of the jury panel