Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-21
BLACK aND-TAN THIEVES.
Sylvester Anderson and his
Cherokee Mistress.
of Grand Larceny at Next Term
of the District Court-A Mot
ley Crowd in Squire
Walkers Court

The preliminary trial of the blacks and tan
burglar and arch thief, Sylvester Anderson,
and his Cherokee mistress, charged with the
crime OF grand larceny, was held in Justice
W. F. Walkers court yesterday and at
tracted large crowd. The court was full
of spectators. The demeanor of the accused
was quite sufficient to establish their charac-
ter, . was also that of Joe Richie and his
white other half, sufficient to convince any
observans listner that they also ought to be
fired out of town. Joe Richie is as black as
the ace of spades, and wher it serves his
purpose he can play the fool very cleverly.
His wife is a white woman with as much
cheek as government mule, although, in
some manner a piece of said cheek
has been dinged, in all probably by loco
motive or bsttering ram, for certainly no
ordinary blow could ever dinge q cheek like
hers.
Take Anderson and his conelomoration
of white Cherokee animal of the female
persuasion and Richie and his frow, and il
their combined cheeks were boiled down the
product would furnish enough clear brass to
run foundry two yeary-ten hour system
and they would still have enough LEFT to
make an old fashioned set Of candle sticks.
Anderson would steal the Lords supper.
From information picked up among other
colored folks Anderson served ten years in
the United States army and was mustered
out about a year ago. He ia tall, slender,
wirey mulatto, as keen rs razor. The
woman who is called Matte Anderson, who
acts in the role of his wife, is rather a pre-
possessing damsel, apparently not over %
years. Her complexion is fair and there is
nothing in he. features indicating any but
caucasian blood, except dark snaley eye
peculiar to the Indian race. She says her
father was white man and her mother a
Cherokee Indian.
The whole batch were apparently in as
funny n mood as WAS VIM. Edgar Roof,
their neighbor thief who plead guilty the day
before. In conversation with other d.rkies
who had stalls at Riches house, the re-
porter learned that the squaw animal is the
wife of a big stou: Mulsito cook named Cal
Frazier, and that she ran off with Anderson.
She has 3 girl child seven years old. The
foregoing is about the character of the lay
out. They and Roof, an open confessed
thief, are the gang Joe Richie and his white
appendsge have been harboring right along,
and their own evidence in court AS we'll rs
their outside demesnor brands them as
lambs of the same stripe. Whenever you
find white woman living with black man,
or vice versa, you can set them down as
crooked and they should be bounced.
George Washington Calhoun Jones de-
Tended Anderson and the squsw, and the
county attorney did the other side of the
business. The pile of goods found in the
bed tick in Anderson's room, and some
goods that Mrs. Richie tried to carry off in
hand satchel while the officers were search
ing the house, were piled on the table.
Several witnesses were examined by the
state chiefly for the purpose Of proving that
Roof was not the man who stole those
goods, as that was the lins OF defense
Anderson and the woman who sat beside
him, kept continually talking and whisper
ing 10 their counsel.
Joe Ritchie WAS placed on the stand, but
he didn't seem to know any more about the
people than if they lived on the other side
of town. One would Naturally suppose
frcm his eTidence that he wouldn't know if
his vest Was stolen off him, but while talk
ing outside after dinner in crowd he ap-
peared to be better posted. Regarding the
row between Roof ard Anderson he told N
reporter that he would tell all about it if he
was asked, but when put on the stand he
would tell nothing. In the presence of the
reporter he said that when the row took |
place he had to threaten to kill Anderson if
he wouldn't be quiet, and that that was the |
first he knew that Anderson and the squaw
were not man and wife and that then be told |
between Anderson and Roof was about the |
woman.
Mrs. Richie testified that the pair lived |
ir their house for about two months before |
they were arrested, but generally
she was as ignorant of everything |
rs her black partner. She recognized |
several OF the goods on the table as things |
the squaw had made her present of. The
proprietor of the secondhand store, where |
Anderson had sold some of the goods, testi-
fed that on the Monday morning following |
the robbery of Hodges store, Anderson
came to his place with the goods soon after
he had opened his store, and that Anderson
told him they were some goods left on his
hands By party who had boarded with
him, Richie and his wife swore the Ander-
sons had no bosrders, therefore it appears to
be plain case.
VIM. Rose, a colored man, who had hung
out AZ the Richie mansion, said in the
presence of reporter that the thing was too
plain against Anderson, and that he ought
10 have no sympathy, but afterwards the
scribe heard Mrs. Richie tell Rose not TO
say anything against him, but if they would