The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-07-08

James G. Cash, former sheriff of this county, 1914-1916, is in jail in Ei Paso on a Federal charge of violation of the Harrison Act, to-wit the sale of narcotics.
 At a preliminary hearing in Ei PasO this week before a United States Commissioner, 3 plea of illegal antrap- ment was entered, put was overruled by the court. j Bond was fixed in the suln..o S7,500,. which up to the time the ERA goes to press, Cash was un- able to furnish, and ne was remanded sc Jail tc await trial at the October tetfn of the Uhied States court
 s:After a ~4S-hotiF sleepless vigil, fed eraF narcotic agents arrested Jim G. Cash, ill Hotel'Paso del Norte at 6:3v @ clock Saturday morning on a charge of violating the Harrison act. One hundred and four ounces of morphine were about to be transferred from Cash to an agent at the time of his arrest, officers said.
 This seizure of morphine was the largest ever made in the border dis trict and one of the largest ever made in the nation. At interior city illicit market prices it is worth $45,- 44S. Federal agents say Cash agreed to sell it to them for $375O in bulk. Lured by Fake Addict
 On information alleging that Cash was in that business a federal agent and two informants sought to see ii he would sell it to them. They de clare Cash drove to the room of one of the agents, took his suitcase and travelling bag and returned to the hotel, always under surveillance by other agents.
 1 The agent arranging the deal played the part of a timid addict.
 Cash asured me then,' he related
 that everything was all right. Then 1 he handed me nerve-calmer yarn l that he was protected; said he had l paid $500 to a city policeman who is not even in town, to assure him pro l lection against arrest. pretended this appeared to satisfy me.
 1 $2,OOo Posted With Clerk
 "At first we walked up to the hote i clerk and I left a package of $2,00t | in banknotes with the clerk. 1 eX | plained to him that he was to pa! 1 the money to no one but Cash ans
 only when he was i'll my company.
 told him that if this fellow did wha | he promised to do that then 1 would
 come back with him and Cash would i set the money. : took 9 receipt fol
 with a roll of S1 75O more bills
 in my pocket I went to the hotel tt
 meet Cash. He called a taxi and pu | the suitcase and grip of the stuff il
 the cor Then he told me it was il
 the car and we walked up to tht
 clerks desk to get the money. H
 z5as arrested there.''
 .i c. V. SambranO, driver Of the tay , was also arrested, Later he was ey : onerated' of guilt, but was held as : material witness. United State
 Commissioner A. J. w. Schmid re |; leased him on S750 bond.
 Illegal entrapment was the defens 1 set up by Cash former sheriff c Greenlee county in Arizona, whe given an examining trial befor
 United States Commissioner A. J. W
 Schmid Tuesday in Fl Paso on tn charge of violation of the Harriso
 narcotic act.
 Only two witnesses were put on b the government at the eXaminin
 trial, although it is claimed tha there were several Federal officer : engaged in the case. These witne ses were A. l.. Raithel, narcoti 5 agent, and c. V. Sambrano, driver ( | the service car in which the suit case l were seized.
 Chauffeur's Story
 The driver of the car testified tn; he was employed by Cash to driV - him and another man to an addres