Weekly journal-miner., 1921-06-15
FIRST TESTIMONY IN HENRY
 SEE CASE; CATT TTLEMAN SAID
 ID HAVE SOLD BAR-U CATTLE
. CFrom Fridays Daily)

Establishing two facts involved in the charge that Henry See, well known Camp Verde catt1eman, had broken the law when he sold mort gagged cattle, took virtually all of yesterday before the superior court in the trial of See on a. felony. By evening, the prosecution, which was conducted by Judge John A. Ellis, special counsel for the United Cattle Loan company, had almost completed its case and today the defense, which is in the hands of O'Sullivan & Nor gan, will have an inning.
 Sees mortgages, covering the two brands, Bar-U and H-Y and involv- ing $22,5OO, were testified to by County Recorder E. A. McSwiggin as being still on the county's books and uncancelled. J. A. Johnson of Phoenix, vice-president of the loan company, also testified as to the mortgages,
 The bulk of yesterdays testimony and the numerous exhibits put in by the prosecution was in an effort to establish the facts surrounding sale of a good many beeves and veals to the Independent Meat company of Jerome and to other buyers of slaughtered stock. In this connec- ton, a quantity of vouchers, in voices and cancelled checks were identified by J. A. Kelly, auditor of the meat company and introduced in evidence over the protests of the de- fense. The checks, and other docu- ments carried amounts ranging from about $50 to over $500, and totaled well into the thousands.
 The court room was presenting a very sunburned appearance when the case came on for trial. A good many of the jurymen are from out in be- yond, and there were probably two score of witnesses and friends of the principals in the See case who brought a distinctly Frontier days complexion to the audience room of the superior court.
 Henry See sat with his counsel and ranged in the rear of the court room were many other Camp Verde cattlemen. R
 William Goswick, who, during the period when the alleged illegal sales were made was employed by See, testified about slaughtering and mar keting the beeves and calves. He said later that he had ceased work for See and after that time, had been employed for two days by repre- sentative of the complaining com pany to inspect cattle hides left at the See ranch and at the place of Joe Ellis near Camp Verde. On cross examination, Goswick admitted that all the slaughtering and carry ing to market had been done openly, that the hides had been left in the corral in Camp Verde in plain sight and that apparently there had been no disposition to conceal any of the transactions complained of.
 / Kelly was the second witness for the state and his testimony was chiefly concerned with the identifica- ton of vouchers and checks paid to See for meat. He said he had ob- served one Bar-U brand on the hide of a beef not skinned prior to de livery to the market, but could not be cure regarding brands on the other stock he had received and paid for.
 McSwiggin was recalled to the stand for further cross-examination ! and his testimony on this occasion tended to reveal some intimate de tails of livestock troubles hereabout. He was requested to read and did read to the jury, a list of all the un- cancelled mortgages in the name of the complaining company, and these names included that of the defendant several times, it being shown that the mortgage upon which the complaint is based had been renewed several times.
 The jury trying the See case con 3ists of C. J. Bones, George E. Brig yeman, E. B. Cleary, C. A. Brown, George Jackson, Frank Abbott, J. T. Richards, Frank w. Smith, A. J.; Stone, P. J. Nash, Harry Fully, Humboldt H. Ward.