San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-27
BAT GAVE CULLINGS.

| A large number of cases were tried by
| the recorder this morning. out side of the
vagrancy arrests by Officer Perez and
! Knox, the offenseS being mostly disorder
| lies.
| Ella Thompson was arrested Saturday
| night by Officers Diaz and Jas. Brown for
| being diS0rderly and using insulting Ian
guage. Ella grew hot in the collar at the
ways of the world in general, and some of
| her friends in particular, and was giving
kthe atmosphere in her neighborhOOd
decidedly ultramarine hue. when the
officers arrested her.
A number of police were detailed to
prevent confusion among the vehicles in
front of the First Presbyterian church
yesterday afternoon, during the funeral
| OF the late Rev. DR.. Neil.
The arrest of thirty-two women by Of
fCerS Knox and Perez, on the charge of
yagrancy, last Saturday afternoon. is the
largest raid of its kind made by the
police, since the raid made some years
since by a former police officer named
BallOu, who, Singe-handed. arrested
some SiXty-tive women on the charge of
Vagrancy. sweeping among this class of
people in the entire trans-San Pedro dis
trict, as effectively as cyclone.
The bat cave court this morning lasted
over two hours. there being A. cases tried
Tile HDeS amounting 10 VIA.
The great raid which officers Knox and
Perez made on the shady women on South
East ST., occupied considerable time. The
officers on this street say that the women
had become so unruly that it had become
necessary to run them in, and twenty
three were arrested on South East street
alone. Seventeen of them pleaded guilty
and were assessed s. each. Barbara Can
ma, very fly girl of her kind, was fined
s.; a few were continued. Two of the girls.
Matilda Bernhard and Carrie Campbell,
ii is said. skipped their bonds, but their
bondsmen paid the fines.
q. K. Spielhagen and VIM. Schuwirth.
who were charged with immOserate driv
ing. were fined 81 and s. respectively. The
former was assessed two dollars more
than the latter for showing fight when
arrested, the officers having quite tusSle
with him in front of Kalteyer'S drug
store.
Ella Thompson. a unsightly coon,
charged with abusive language and being
diSorderly. was fined $40 in each case.
Elias tender nature tiger and she got
funny, as the slang phrase goes, for which
contempt she was fined $40 and "a hours in
jail. But Ella was not to be thus
squelched, and she was again fined so
and "a hours in Jail for contempt of court,
when it dawned upon her mind that life
was too short TO spend so much of it be-
hind the bars, and she sullenly subsidized.
Jesus Paiz, shrewd son of the
MOntezumaS, was before his honor as
suspicious character. The accused made
it his business to offer his servi-
ces in railing valuable articles for other
parties. He would take them, it is charg-
ed, and get up list of fictitious parties
whom he represented as having taken
chances, having meanwhile sold the ar
ticles and pocketed the proceeds. He
also was vender of Snyde jewelry. The
| recorder fined him s25 or % days in jail.
VIM. Price, who was arrested Sunday
afternoon for crossing a funeral process
sion on his bicycle, had hearing this
morning and was fined s. FOR the offense.
This is the first case of its kind on record
in the local court, and created considera
bic interest. The case was not appealed
Francisco Ramos, a crippled Mexican,
| arrested by officer Easterly on South
Flores street Saturday. for carrying a
razor, was dismissed, he claiming that he
was selling the razor.
One case was transferred this morning
| from the recorders court to the justice of
peace's court, that of Augustin Cruz, a
| Mexican, who had fight with another
Mexican, Ismael Bella. Cruz, in the
| encounter, drew keen bladed
Bowie knife, ripping open Bela's
/ arm from elbow to wrists. The
| fight was about a woman, occurred across
| the creek. at the southeast corner of
| Durango and San Saba street. The
| charge before the justice of the peace was
| assault with intent to murder.