Tombstone Epitaph

With Bootleggers
Today in the Superior Court the case of the State vs. Illitzky occupied the attention of the court the entire day. Illitzky is charged with having received stolen goods, and this is the third time he has been up for trial on a similar charge. It is expected the case will be concluded by tonight or tomorrow morning.
Last night the jury in the case of the State vs. Trigg Larkin after being out but a short while returned a verdict of guilty. Larkin was charged with running a disorderly house in Brewery Gulch at Bisbee, and the real status of the case was the fact that he had been selling whiskey in his apartments in Bisbee and had created a general nuisance. It is very seldom that a defendant can be convicted in a charge such as this as the offense is of a greater magnitude than the ordinary disorderly house. In this case, however, the jury were willing to do their duty and with practically a whiskey case before them they found the defendant guilty as charged.
County Attorney Ross states that this case shows what attitude the jury takes toward liquor cases but under the "personal use" clause of the supreme court that it is harder to secure a conviction. A selling case and an introduction case, however, is a different proposition and the Jury no doubt took the matter under consideration when deciding on a verdict. Larkin will be sentenced tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be a busy day for the Court, when some 50 defendants will have to appear for arraignment in about 35 cases of selling whiskey as outcome of the recent campaign against the whiskey sellers by the county attorney and sheriff. There are from 2 to 21 cases against some of the defendants, and it will be necessary for them to give bond in at least five cases or go to jail, and tomorrow promises to be an exciting day for the bootleggers.
This is no doubt the largest single filing of bootlegging cases in the state since the dry law went into effect.
Today, out of 17 jurors drawn out of the box for service only 10 could be found by the sheriff and they reported as follows:
L. V. Branch, H. R. Hanninger, Bert Dover, Frank Parker, Bisbee; P. G. Wager, Warren; J. H. Stephens, R. T. Hill, J. F. Johnson, C. A. Housel, T. H. Berry, Douglas.
The court immediately called for another venire of 15 to report on Monday, when the case of the State vs. Leandro Maldonado will be started. It will be necessary to have a full panel under the law before a felony case can be tried, and under the present jury system this has been impossible so far.