Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-01
The Government Sues EX-
Postmaster PreusS.
Sadie Devine Wants Divorce
From Harry Rose.
HOff, the Alleged Incendiary, Held
to Answer.
Interesting Cases on Trial Yesterday.
Candidates for the Whit
tier Reform School.
Court Notes.

Acting on telegraphic instructions
from the solicitor-general of the treas
ury, District Attorney Willoughby
Cole has drawn up and fled IN the
United States circuit court a complaint
against ex-Postmaster E. A. Preuss and
his bondsmen in civil suit to recover
certain moneys which came into Mr..
Preuss's hands during his incumbency,
and which are alleged to have been mis-
applied. The amount sued for is $4,000,
the district attorney naming that sum
so as to cover the true amount, which
has later been ascertained to be about
$664.82.
Mr.. Cole, in discussing the suit, said
yesterday that the filing of the COM
plant did not imply by any means that
the ex-postmaster is guilty of appropri
ating government funds to his own use,
but merely that Mr.. Preuss had made
expenditures in the interests of the pos
tai service which were not authorized,
and which the government would at
tempt to recover from his bondsmen.
These expenditures were made during
boom times, when the appropriations
for the Los Angeles postoffice were to-
tally inadequate for the needs of the
town, and include sums paid out for
stationery, gas, etc.
Mr.. Preuss's bondsmen, who are made
co-defendants in the suit, are Isaias w.
Hellman, John M. Griffith, Andrew H.
Denker, Cameron E. Thom, w. H.
Workman, Stephen M. White, Peter
Potts, L. Roeder, Thos. B. Mott, Eugene
German, John H. Schumacher and
Frank Schumacher.
THE ROSE DIVORCE CASE.
Yester day was the day set for the
trial of the divorce suit of Sarah E. Rose
VS.. Harry E. Rose, son OF Senator L. j.
Rose, in department two of the superior
court, but another continuance was
granted on motion OF the plaintiff, and
the case went back on the trial calendar.
G. c. Stephens was substituted as the
plaintiffs attorney in place OF w. w.
Holcomb, and the former read
lengthy affidavit sworn to by the alleged
Mrs. Rose, in which it was stated that
Holcomb had deceived his client as to
the date OF the trial, telling her that it
would not come up till July 10, and had
taken no steps whatever to get ready for
the hearing.
Mr.. Stephens, in his argument in
support of the motion for continuance,
stated the grounds on which the suit
was brought and the facts which the
plaintiff hoped to prove. Reading from
the complaint, he said that the parties
were married by consent and not by
written contract or ceremony, in June,
1888, and cohabited together as man
and wife till June, 1890. The answer
which the defendant makes to this
clause OF the complaint, is that the par
ties were never married and never CO.
habited together as man and wife. As
regards the charge of adultery, on which
grounds divorce is asked, Rose alleges
in his answer that the woman he is ac-
cused of committing adultery with is his
legal wife.
"Mrs. Rose" who is better known as
Sadie Devine, lived for a considerable
period of time at 10 College street and
was, by common report, the keeper of
house of prostitution. She will attempt
to prove, by documentary evidence and
otherwise, that Rose recognized her as
his wife, and lived with her as such in
this city, at the Arlington hotel in Santa
Barbara, at the Hughes lodg-
ing house in Fresno, at the Cir
vey house in Encinitas and elsewhere.
She claims she has receipted bills for
household supplies made out to "Mrs.
H. E. Rose" and paid by the defend
ant, and also alleges that she has a
ticket to the race track at Fresno, in
Roses handwriting, on which is writ
ten: 'Admit Mrs. H. E. Rose to all the
privileges of the track" Her complaint
oil t,ot ic nd
asks that the plaintiff be given such
share of this as alipony as the court
may see fit The case promises to be
one OF considerable interest.
TWO INCoRRIGIBLEs.
The first commitment to the new
reform school to be made in this county
was signed yesterday by Judge McKin-
lev. The young man who is thus dis
tinguished is Flavio Medinas, who de-
serves incarceration in such an institu
tion if anybody ever did. Flavio has
got entirely beyond the control of his
parents, and through bad company has
been led to commit acts which
would send an older offender to Jail. In
company with young hoodlum named
Frenchy, Medinas has made several
trips to the north, stealing rides on
freight trains, and yesterday he was
arrested and taken before the police
court on a charge of stealing. His ex-
treme youth led to a dismissal of the
charge, but as his mother did not know
what to do with him he was taken be-
fore the superior court and committed to
the reform school.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Wolf yester-
day, also, in department five, made ap-
plication for the commitment of Ada
Love to the reform school. The child
has no mother, and her father being un-
able to care for her, left her with the
Wolfs, who claim that she is willful and
disobedient. There appearing to be
some doubt as to this child's ineorrigi-
bility, Judge Mckinley continued the
case, to allow an application to be made
for her admission into the Protestant
orphan asylum.
AN INTERESTING FORECLOSURE CASE.
The foreclosure case of R. D. List vs..
J. G. Miller was tried, argued and sub
mitted in department three yesterday.
The complaint alleges that Miller, on
June IL, 1890, made and delivered to M.
w. Stimson at Pasadena promissory
note and mortgage for $2500 as part con-
sideration for certain real estate, and
the suit is to foreclose this mortgage.
Miller admits making the note,
hut denies that il was ever delivered,