The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1925-03-27

and SO it was that Barristers Gar
Der, Bishop, Thornton, Mesick,
Ashley and perhaps one or two
more were sleeping, or trying to
sleep, in one room-a room walled
with one-inch boards-hardly an
ideal protection against "A cali
bre bullet. A street fight arose
with eight or ten men on a side
and the bullets came singing into
the lawyers room, although for
tunately high enough to hit none
of them. But this did not mollify
Judge Ashley, who arose and in
limited night-robes and by the light
of dim lamp made speech.
''No good citizen refuses to obey
the constitution and the laws" he
said. Thereon rests the temple of
our liberties. The nation that ig-
nores the law and in every emer-
gency establishes a code of its own
has not long to live, because JUS
tice is on the watch. Nevertheless
it is inherent in man to love life,
and the great God places i'm his
breast the fixed impression that
when other means fail self-preser-
walton is the order of the day.
Hence my duty is plain. am go
ing to get my pistol; 1 am going
to supplement that with a shot
gun. Then l am going into the
street to fix things so we can all
sleep sounder tomorrow night"
The judge was finally dissuaded
from his purpose, but he still
maintained the absolute justice Of
his code and declared it was in the
bill of human rights that if a law
yer failed to protect himself he not
only could expect no protection
from any other source, but also
Ijeopardized his professional repu-
tation by displaying ignorance of
the rules which should govern a
man in that sort of emergency.
This incident brings us back to
link Barnes, for it was he who was
responsible for the presence of
those lawyers in Phoebe. The ser
pent had invaded Eden Gone were
the days of idyllic innocence from
Phoebe. The Hermes Mining COM
pany was suing the Raymond and
Ely for the value of ore alleged to
have been taken from Hermes
ground and for the possession of
that ground.
For link, after brief surve of
the camp, had visited the office of
the Hermes company and convinc-
ed them that under the terms of
the apex law one of the most val
liable Raymond and Ely properties
was theirs and showed them how
easy it would be to win suit.
links next move was to call on
William Raymond, directing genius
of the Raymond and Ely proper
ties, inform him that the Hermes
| people were rigging up black
mail suit, and offered to show him
how to beat it. Raymond was an
able man, and it is good proof of
the cleverness of link Barnes that
he was able to take him in
Before the end of the week
Barnes was in the pay and the
confidence of both parties. He
suggested names for jurors, giving
lists of the same names to each
party. Through his influence with
the county clerk, with whom he
had early come to an understand
ing, he was permitted to manipu-
late the panel so as to secure the
selection of those very jurors. Each
side, thinking it had the jury sew
ed up in it's own pocket, warmly
congratulated link upon his ex-
traOrdinary finesse.
In the nature of events it is not
surprising that both sides accepted
the jury without a challenge, al
though each was at pains to ex-
plain to the court that it was be-
cause any twelve men were good
enough for litigant whose cause
was so absolutely plain and right
eOus
link Barnes had no direct design
upon the money that each company
had put up to "convince'' the jury.
He meant to make his share out of
the stock market. Phoebe had an
exchange of its own, but for OBJ
vious reasons he preferred to oper-
ate through agents in San Fran
cisco. They furnished the money,
he the tactics, and they had agreed
to halve the spoils.
The Inauguration of the lawsuit
set the market for those two stocks
dancing like the nee die of a COM
pass. Every shift in the evidence
produced a corresponding shift in
the shares Of the Raymond and
Ely and of Hermes. Barnes, hand
ling both companies cases, so
managed the production of evidence
that it seemed obvious that Ray
mond and Ely must win. Hermes
suffered a bad slump and links
agents gobbled up big blocks of it
at low prices.
Il Weighing the Evidence
The case lasted many days. An
array of high-priced lawyers eX-
amined a small army of mining ex-
perts and professional witnesses
and the evidence adduced put to
blush the most fragrant exhibition
of inspired mendacity ever witness
ed in a COmstock court.
1t was night when the jury re-
tired to deliberate in room on
the second floor of the courthouse