Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-21
LOCAL EVENTS.
A Serious Charge Against a
Husband.
NEWS IN THE CRIMINAL CIRCLE
Notes of Interest Picked up About
the City and C0nuty
Yesterday.

Two men were entered on the police
books for vagrancy yesterday, who, if
they were living in Indiana, and what
is said about them is true, would prob
able be whipped at the stake by White
Caps, and then if they moved out to Ari-
zona and continued the same sort q
life would run the risk of being lynched
by vigilantes. Against one of them w.
j. Davis, the additional charge of har-
boring young girls may be preferred; the
other w. H. Adams shines only in the
reflected light of Davis performances.
Davis is married man with two
small children. He claims to be team
ster but no one ever saw him do any
work. He has tent down on the Mes
pager tract on the corner of Mesnager
and San Fernando streets. opposite the
Southern Pacific depot. Yesterday
morning telephone message took the
patrol wagon to the tent and the police
found there two young girls, Annie De-
vine and May Mcintyre, aged Is and 16
years, When asked to account for their
presence there, the girls said that they
had run away from home and were stay
ing in the tent at Davis invitation. They
were brought to the station and their
parents notified. Detective Mccarthy
was detailed to look into the case and
soon had Davis at the station. At the
| tent on Mesnager street he found Mrs.
Davis at the wash tub doing what she
could do to earn a support for herself and
for the children, one of whom is only
few months of age. There was no food in
the tent save a little flour and a few
beans. Mrs. Davis declared that not only
did her husband contribute nothing to
her support, but he compelled her to en-
dure the presence of the women he
brought there. A week ago he had
brought these two girls and when che
objected he had told her she might stand
it or leave. AS she had no place to go
she was compelled to be silent. The
detective learning that Adams was also
mixed up in the affair, arrested him at
Mother Browns, which is his regular
habitation. This is also favorite place
of resort of the man Davis and he has
been seen in that vicinity with the girls.
Davis took his arrest very complacently.
He declared that he intended to marry
the younger one of the girls as soon as
he could get divorce from his wife, but
denied that he had been guilty of any
serious misconduct with either of them.
The girls he said had run away from
home and he had asked his wife to make
room for them in the tent.
| Criminal Notes.
| All Cow, an insane Chinaman, was
taken in charge by the police yesterday.
A man by the name of Lovall is up
from Norwalk on the charge of attempted
rape, the woman whom he assaulted be-
ing his divorced wife.
Thomas Washington, for larceny, and
Gussie Weber, for disturbing the peace,
are two offenders from Wilmington who
were yesterday brought to the County
Jail.
Two Chinaman, Negro and a white
man were discovered playing fantan by
Deputy Constable yesterday, who took
them to the County Jail and entered
them as congress of nations.
Justo Orosco was brought to the County
Jail yesterday, having been sent up from
Norwalk, Los Nietos township for ten
days, on ch arge of battery. When his
time is out on this charge, he will be
brought up on another complaint, that of
a criminal assault on Carmelita Chew
alier.