Weekly journal-miner., 1921-06-01
THREE OUT OF 4 MOTOR CAR
 BANDITS HELD
CFrom Sundays Daily)


 While a jury was convicting L. B. Morgan and John Perry of com plicity in the theft of an automobile yesterday afternoon, another jury that had been charged with the de- cision in the case of Emmett Smith on the same charge, was disagreeing and leading up to the final dismissal of the case by Superior Judge Sweeney. Smith was remanded to the custody of the sheriff for an other trial.
 As result of the action of the jury in the Morgan-Perry case, three of the four youths who rode in Nor riS Borden's rent car from Prescott to Seligman in April are facing pris- on sentences and fourth is still ill the tolls of the law.
 The Smith case was tried on a severance. Hearing was ended Fri day afternoon at 5:15 and the case went to the jury which slept over its verdict. When the Morgan-P Perry verdict was brought in about $50, a scant half hour after the arguments had been finished, the court decided that there was no chance for an agreement on the guilt or innocence of Smith, summoned the jury and after learning how things stood, ex- cused the jurors.
 About the same evidence was in troduced for and against Morgan ard Perry that had been put i'll the day before in the Smith case. Will liam E. Field, the fourth member of the quartet, who had pleaded guilty, again went on the stand and attempt ed to assume all the blame, sharing it only with a mysterious buddy" whom he refused to name. The position of the state was the same to the effect that the entire case had been framed up by the four men, and in questions, the county attorney left the inference that the four had drawn lots to find one to be the goat"
 This. William Field denied vehe- mently. He said he had framed" his own story at first in the hope of eluding justice, but finding it inn possible to "get away with it'' had confessed He had, Field told the jury, thought to cloak himself with the innocence of the other three defendants.
 He and his buddy decided to steal a car at the Plaza Annex garage They lured Carl Anderson, the boy who slept there at night, to the depot and returned to make way with one of the machines. They had no sooner entered the garage than the three other young men arrived, de manding a car to take them to King man, where they hoped to get work. Although 1t was stormy night, the trip must be made.
 Field testified that his partner posed as the garage man and he posed as the driver. Each of the three men, he said, paid $20 to Buddy" and the car was taken out of the garage and driven to Ash Fork, and thence to Seligman, where the arrest was made by Deputy Sheriff M. s. Hummer.
 The state attempted to introduce an alleged prison photo of Morgan, showing him ill stripes, but the de- fense was able to exclude the ex- hibit.
 On the defense side, Attorney A. H. Gale attempted to bring out that Field was a real bad guy in that he had been involved in previous law breaking, but the state objected to any attack on the prisoners charac- ter. The court said he would not permit the defense to "impeach" its own witness except on showing ot his bias or hostility. The line ot questioning was dropped.
 The arguments centered chiefly about the state charge of framed up story, which was vigorously de nied by counsel for the defense in their part of the debate. Roger O'Malley assisted MT. Gale in the defenseS