Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-27
THE hOUx CASE.
Chief of Police Lee Gives Its Compile
History.

Chief of Police Lee Gives Its Complete
History.
Some comments having been made upon
the arrest and discharge of Frank Roux
some time ago, Chief Lee was asked yester-
day to give the full facts in the case and
said On the Both of October received
the following telegram
! "' Arrest and hold Frank Roux for embezzIe.
ment sl1,0O5 of Folsom, Wells 4 Prosser. Short
thick-set Frenchman. Think he wore a check
cred suit. Think he Is at Western Hotel was
lneie to-day. Hold Tor requ1sition. Answer
IS. W. URsoN, Constable
When that dispatch came there was no
one in the office but myself and officer
Farrell. L saw that ii was important, and
, sent Farrell out to hand if to the first
officer he could see. He met officer Ash
and turned the dispatch over to him. Ash
beng on the night-watch gave the dispatch
TO Able. Able and Green arrested this man
and he was locked up. l never saw the
man until the following morning. When
the train arrived at O'Clock Folsom and
Prosser appeared, the former acting as a
deputy Constable appointed by Constable
Epson. When | arrived at the office they
had seen the prisoner. Roux had expressed
desire to see them and officer Farrell had
permitted them to see him. He gave them
this order:
"' Timothy Lee, Chief of Police: Please let MI.
Prosser have all the money taken from me when
alIesleu' anu oonge FRANK RoUX.'
" Immediately asked these gentlemen In
regard to their papers, as the Constable had
telegraphed he would send reouisition
They handed me warrant from a Justice |
OF the Peace. l said, Gentlemen, this is |
not worth the paper it is written on. I |
would not hold man a minute on such a |
warrant as that and at once ordered the |
man brought out. He came into nv office. |
where Messrs. Folsom and Prosser, officer |
Farrell and myself were present. | told |
Farrell to bring in all the money taken I
rom nlm when arrested, and then asked |
MN II he wanted 1t turned over to Mr..
Prosser. He said he did, and acknowledged |
his signature to the order l have lust
shown you. / counted out the money and
handed 1t to Mr.. Prosser, who signed the |
following receipt:
"'October 81, 1855
90 Received from Timothy Lee 81, SSS IS money
rested. D. M PRosSFp
Folsom then said, How much do we
owe your l said, You owe 81 for keeping
this prisoner over night, which you can
pay In the Office They got up to go and
Prosser said, We'll, Chief | promised the
officers $50 reward l SAYS, That is all
r ght sir If you want to give the officers
$50, all right; l have no objection They
went INTO the outer Office, where he paid
Able $50. Able came into my office short
time afterwards and rendered me portion
OF the money, which l refused, saying, No.
sir; want none of that money. Divide it
among yourselves 1t was divided, be-
heve, between Able, Green and Farrell.
While Roux was in jail he never asked
for an attorney and no attorney came to
see him, and the first thing l ever heard of
an attorney being in the case was when l
understood an attorney tolo Farrell that
he was beat out of $500 by our not keeping
the man. The attorney said to me after
wards, L knew the warrant was not worth
anything, but / am sorry you did not keep
him until l got down there That is the
whole history of the case Folsom, Prosser
and Roux went off to breakfast together,
and everything seemed to be entirely set
lied between them. 1t was claimed to be
4 business misunderstanding"