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Show , on iZOilTTGWiS NO I. W. W. WITNESSES I I i j Statement Regarding Trial Is Chief Topic Before Court Reconvened Re-convened to Try Kidnaper TOMBSTONE. Ariz.. Feb. 4 A ; statement by County Attorney Robert N. French, published in a local newspaper, news-paper, that "I have not an I. W. W. on my list of witnesses, nor will Tprose cute any one for deporting one from Bisbe'1 on July 12, 1917," was a topic of conversation as court re-convened todav for tho (rial of Harry E. Woot ton, hardware merchant of Bisbee, ac cuscd of kidnaping in connection with the. deportations. Wootton is one of 210 defendants accused ac-cused of participating in the deportation deporta-tion of 11S6 men from Bisbee. French's statement in part follows- "In a statement published last Saturday Sat-urday it was said this would bo the first time that an I. W- W. would be arraigned on the prosecuting aide In the history of courts. This is decidedly wrong, since I positively have not on tho prosecution's side one man that is an I W. W. or affiliated with that organization or-ganization in any manner who will testify in the case. Furthermore, there will not be a defendant prosecuted for deporting an I W. W. and what is more I am the man responsible for breaking up of the t. W. W. organizations organiza-tions in Cochise county." oo |