Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-06

was put upon the stand TO te5tlIy
lt) his correctness in taking certal
passages of testimony at that time.
J. S. G. JOHNSON.
Justice ct the Peace of Wilmingto
Township, was called and testified
l held the exa nination OF Isabel
Andarss at Wilmington on the 23d Q
December last. l made an examina
ton of the bruises upon her body an,
found some upon her right leg abov'
the knee and some upon the left
They were blue and about the size o
half dollar.
The defendants counsel here said
that they had no more witnesses tt
introduce except the defendant, ant
that they did not care to put her Oh
the stand until an interpreter coult
be secured, whereupon the court or.
dered an interpreter to be sent for.
ANToNIA MENDEz,
A woman was called by the defense
while an interpreter was being sent
for. She said / live in East Los An
geles. know the defendant and saw
her and Henry Neidman at San Pc.
dro that night. went with Albert
Mass from Gus's saloon to Browns's.
| saw Neidman standing with Pearl
Hinton. She was calling the figures
in the quadrille. | did not see Isabella
then. We met Henry on our way to
Browns. Albert left me at the little
back gate, going into the rooms. Al
bert went back to Gus's. Henry called
| MIN to go to Gus's with him and take a
drink. l went into Browns hall, and
saw Neidman brought in wounded. l
did not see any quarrel between Isa-
bella and Henry.
DEPENDANT, ISABELLA ANDRAss,
Was then sworn and placed upon the
stand. She testified: lived in San
Pedro on the 10Gh of December last.
| have been in jail here ever since the
next day. l am the defendant in this
case. Lam a married woman-Anto-
MO Elizalda is my husband. l was
married to him. My certificate is on
the table there. That is my little boy
by the table. That is all the family l
have. l first met Henry Neidman at
San Pedro at Mrs. Browns. / used
to go there every Saturday night from
Los Angeles to sell clothing 10 the la
dies who danced. l lived in Los An
geles then, on Alameda street,
and sewed for a living. My hus-
band left me with another wo-
man. l had no property then.
l used to sew for the ladies at Browns,
and while going there for that pur-
pose / met Henry Neidman. l used
to go there every Saturday and re-
NAMED until Monday. During the
time / was there sat in the dance
hall with Mrs. Brown. She was god
mother to my child. / never saw
Henry Neidman until went to San
Pedro. He took me out to dance
every time. Witness here began to
cry, and could not respond to the
attorneys questions for some time,
without great difficulty.) He made
love to me, and made propositions to
me to live with him, and consented.
/ went to San Pedro and lived with
him at Mr.. Browns, according to his
advice. We occupied the same room.
He advised me after l went to San
Pedro with him to take men into my
confidence and make money out OF
them, and when l did so he took the
money. When l first met him he
was a bartender, but afterwards he
hardly ever did anything. He never
pave any reasons for not working.
He used to take all the money l made
and gamble it off. / lived with him
under these circumstances for be-
tween two and three years
He did not live with me all
that time. At one time
when l was sick, confined to bed, he
went on trip on schooner for three
or four months. He never gave me
any money; he never had any. He
had a room at hotel for which he
paid s. a week, because he did not
want to interfere with my business.
He kept this room all the time, be-
eau he would have been arrested if
the officers had found he was living
with me. paid all his expenses. l
paid for the room at the hotel. l
used to sew during the day for the
ladies', and this money he got too. l
lived in Los Angeles with him for
four or five months. / was sick in
bed for some time here. He did
nothing, and supported him upon
some money saved up while was
| in San Pedro. He went to San Diego
while / was sick here. We had been
back about ten or twelve days when
he died, and we went to San Pedro
as soon as he got here. was at San
| I'D xxr1,a., hn fhn cnlp
and when he left there came to Los
Angeles, as my baby was sick. Be-
fore he left San Diego he telegraphed
for me to go to San Pedro. He came
to see me here when he came back
from San Diego, and asked me to GO
to San Pedro. l left here on Friday
and the murder happened on Satur.
day. We did not go down together
he went first and l followed went
| to live at Browns. He lived with me
there some time"
Antonio Mendez "a woman) and / lef
Browns and went to the saloon O
Gus. When l got there l saw Henry
dancing in the hall. He was dancing
a quadrille, and when l saw he was
dancing took his hat off and threw
it down, and when he picked it up he
called me vulgar name, and asked
why l took his hat off. / then asked
him if this was the way he treatet
me, if he would take all my money
and spend it with these kind of wo
men. He said nothing, but went II
the bar and took a drink. When hi
finished he went out. went back tx
my house and then into Browns ant
danced waltz. When I finished
went to the door and saw Joe the bar
Der. then said: "let's go to Gus's.
III took hold of his hand. II,
went little way with m,
and then said ne was afrait
to go there, as there were q grea
many drunken men there and he wa
Ii not armed. He asked me if l had j;
weapon. Then took out my dagge
and gave it to him. We went then t.
I0.r,c 1orLaJ into tho u,;n 1ow N.