, 1889-02-19
DE WALT EN- ROUTE.
The Noted LeadyiIIe DefauIter
Spends a Night in Cheyenne.
Troublesome Leroy and Thieying
Newman get year Each.
The Wilder Divorce Case Opens to
a Crowded House.

Sinoo SlOSeu tut CSH uOOT On Inc mO5t
distinguished prisoner confined in the
county jail for several years. 1t was
Fred w. De Walt, the defaulting presi-
dent of the First National bank of Lead
vile. He is en- route to Denver in charge
OF United States Marshal Carr and was
cared for by Sheriff Martin at the request
of the federal official.
De Walt, who chatted pleasantly with
a LEADER representative, is young and a
small man of genteel appearance, a ready
and interesting talker. He claims to have
been made a scapegoat by dishonest BUSH
ness associates.
The First National bank of Leadville
closed its doors in the spring of 1884.
The president and several officers fed
the night before suspension. De Walt
made his way to Mexico, but v~enturing to
Canton, o., to visit his mother was ar
rested. He was tried in Colorado on in
formation and in July was sentenced to
ten years imprisonment in the United
States ~penitentiary at Laramie. A year
later he was released on habeas corpus
proceedings, it being--contended that he
should have been proceeded against by
indictment instead of information.
Chief Justice Lacey conceded with De
Waits attorneys. The governments
legal representatives appealed to the
supreme court. Pending a final decision
De Walt was offered liberty on furnishing
bail in the sum of $2O 5000. He was I'M
able to secure bondsmen and has remain
ed in the penitentiary at Laramie until
yesterday.
-Four or five weeks ago the United
States supreme court affirmed the judg-
ment of Mr.. Lacey and ordered the dis
charge of the prisoner. The release pa
pers were received only last week and dur
ing the absence of Mr.. Carr from the
territory.
Fearing that DsWalt would escape the
United States authorities caused his in
dictment at Denver In 1885 and he will
now be arraIgned on the counts returned
at hat time. When DeWalt made for
Mexico it is thought that he carried about
$50, 900 in cash. He says his shortage
was only $4,000 and that he had only
Sl75 when he left Leadville and borrowed
$500 at Pueblo for travelling expenses.
He is steadfast in maintaining that he has
nom of the money and there are many
who believe that his associates secured
the missing funds. De Walt lived high
in a double sense in Leadville but insists
that only his own money passed out of his
hands.
The prisoner is in excellent health and
quite hopeful.
A TOTAL OF THREE.
Chas. H. Leroy, who has been the
"Peck's bad boy" of the county Jail for
nearly two years, yesterday pleaded guilty
to Jail breaking and was by Associate JUS
tice Saufiey sentenced to n years i'm
prisonment in Joliet.
Leroy vas first arrested on the charge
of horse stealing. He broke Jail with
Mccoy, Jones and Sterry in the fall of
1887 and was recaptured in Montana by
Ben Smalley and Sheriff Sparhawk of
Fremont county. In the separation after
the break the notorious Mccoy and Leroy
became partners and travelled together for
some time. but the Texas desperate and
murderer found Leroy too slow and left
him. Leroy is not a typical bad man,
but rather a mean fellow seeking notorl-
ETY.. He has been a disturbing element
in the county jail. always at the bottom of
plans for a delivery. He has not a little
native shrewdness and once conducted a
case for himself with 20 nsiderable ability
but poor success.
ONE YEAR.
Horse creek ranchmen are for a year at
least relieved of a disagrecable neighbor.
1t is John Newman who yesterday ac.
knowledged killing cattle not his own, and
was sentenced to a residence of twelve
months at Joliet. He claimed that Re
made a mistake in the brand Of the ami
NAL slaughtered. The ranchmen for that
section say that his faculty of making err
rors of that character has been really re-
markable and withal profitable. Newman
had a small bunch of mich COWS and
calves, but regularly marketed beef in
Cheyenne.
WILDER VS.. WILDER
The Wilder case was in progress all
of yesterday afternoon. Several wit.
ness testified and Wilder was ordered to
pay alimony to his wife. Though an
English earl and heir to about 'steen mil
lion pounds he had no cash and would
have been committed for contempt but
for the Intervention of his employer.
Judge Saufey adjourned court to 9
o'clock this morning when the consider
alton of the Wilder case will be resumed.
SLEIGHSl SLEIGHSU SLEIGHSW
With one, two. or more seats wiH be
sold very cheap for cash. Several