The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-08
THE ALAMO CITr.

| The Cortez Murder Triai-A Big
Divorce Suit Charged with Embsg.
Element. etc.
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 7.-[Special. l.
In the trial Of Ingracls Cortez foI
the murder of young Stendforth, for
msrly of Austin, testimony ended to
day and Lao Tarle.on opsnfH argu
| ,nens for ,he prorecuiien, ny tirai
rad ths law and cguCt or ap ;esie re
ports touching eircumssantial evI
dence and claimed thst ths prosscu
tion had made out q good crse anu
proved murder in the 1irs1 degree,
liz, in case Of reasonable doubr
the jury could on any mora /
der WSs com slitied by anybd0y else,
they were at lihbGrty TO acquit, In RI
gard TO the expert testimony h.
coniendad that the jury were ss We.
qu.litiSd TO form an opinion "a the dt d.
gDrn. That experts often differ in tht g.
opinions, and were as apt to be wroi y
gg any body else. By hsr OWE tes
mony ana that of other win esses, Dc
ienisnt did not go TO bed st all tue
night deceased was killed, deceasyj
was 20 have started t0 Aus .
the next day, and tbs te. .-
mony showed that they had quar- sl
The deceassd had ordered als
breakfast, which shows he had no 70,
teAtion 20 commit suicide. The Ill H-
i've OF the dsfsu dunt was j5alOt
and durioga mad fit she nlurde q
him. DR.. Hertf'S testimony il, aftel g
theory, that according tn his owr
stafsman6 has not been developed y5t.
end according TO the sther wltnesr
and all reasonable experiences, VOLT
must aave been lost At oncsat tho fr3g
shot. II was contended9that the aa
icuse caiming the deceased's buueN
OF Keys picked up-~on the 4
feN snt. Youns Stanforth's fathgr
wsN present, aud manifested mach
emotion. The courS room was
crowded.
:, Late yesterday afternoon, through
hsr attorneys, Mrs. Adolphins
Moresu1 Piaget instituted sult in the
district court for divorce from her hug
band, Mr.. Louis Piaget, a well-kDown
citizen of San Antonio. Tha petition
alleged thai plaintiff and defendant
were intermarried in Aroyelies parish,
Louisiana, in 1873, ana shortly after
wards moved to Indianolg, this State;
that about five years ago they oame to
this city, and Mr.. Piaget purchased and
stocked ranch iG Presidio county
with 10000 sheep. One daughter,
Josephine, IL years old, is the fruit OF
the marriage. The plaintiff al
legged that she lives on Ess A.,
street, ard that in IT,,
rear OF her premises, frontirg &
on Laredo street there lived widow
10 whom defendant made nightly Wis
its. She implored her husband to cease
his Illicit visits to this place, but he
insisted on making them; that at his
this widow moved TO Ave-
nue'U, where he visited hsr regularly
and lived III Illicit intercourse with
her; that recently she hiss moved to
another part Of the city, and that de-
feDdant has wholly abanGened bis
family and lives in adultery with her.
Her petition clese5 with the usuol
prayer aud for g division Of property,
all OF which plaintiff claims is comma
nifty and is worth large amount.
Jniormations were sworn out in Jus
tice Huston's court to.usv charging A,
Ezsbb with embszzliug 500 from his
mother in-l2w. The woman is in great
distress ever her life saving, and up 10
this morning believed the money was
drawing interest for her at the Traders
bank. $40 ascertsiued, however, or
presenting the bank book thet her SON.
in-lsv, who was originally sent to de.
poSit the money, had lett snly 800 st
the bank, aud that suTh to his own
crsdit, When arrested, Ezebb was
averso to- going along, aud when he
reached the jail attempted TO shoot
one of his c8ptors, but he was promptly
slbdued