The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-11

at II o'clock Saturday night Depu
ty sheriff w. l.. Burke arrived at the
county Jail having in his custody a
young man and woman whom he had
arrested in McGregor on a charge of
theft of over $40. The man was
locked up in cell and the woman, a
mere glrl, was lodged in room in
front o: the Jail where guard has
been in attendance. Mr.. and Mrs.
A. w Weir, is the way it appears GU
the register and this is the name un-
der which the couple was sailing at
their new home, McGregor.
Weir secured the position of tele.
graph operator at McGregor a short
time ago and he and his young wife
have been living at that place. Sat-
urday morning three or four men ar.
rived at McGregor and went before
Justice Norton and made complaint
against Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Weir for
theft of clothing from lady psssen-
ger on the Fort Worth and Denver
railroad. A search warrant was OBJ
tanned and the trunk belonging to
Mrs. Weir was searched. The evil
dence adduced at the examining trial
before Jus ice Norton was sufficient to
warrant, SO that official thought, fix ny
the bonds of defendants at $1,000,
each. They could not give the bond
and Deputy Sheriff Burke hired a
hack and brought them to Waco.
Mr.. Wess Hanley of McGregor &C
companied Officer Burke with his
prisoners. In conversation with the
young woman she mentioned the fact
that she never was under arrest before
but once and then she was little
girl and was guarded all night
one night with her mother
IN tent. Mr.. Hanley was once a
member of the Ranger force, and an
incident in his life while then engaged
flashed Into his mind
"Where was that" he said to Miss
Weir.
ut was in Wichita county, Texas"
she replied.
"Yes, and | am one of the men who
guarded you and your mother all night
in the tent" said Mr.. Hsnley.
Mrs.--and her husbond, who
lived there in Wichita, county were
charged, jointly with conspiring t.
deiraud, IN that they, by fraudulent
representations obtained the payment
of money by the United States gov
eminent. Mrs was arrested and
her little girl, now Miss Weir,
and in the McLennan county Jail was
allowed to remain with her mother
and the two guarded in a tent at
Wichita all night one night, and the
next day turned over to the sheriff by
the Rangers. Tbs woman escaped
from the sheriff aud was afterward
rearrested in Austin, tried and &C.
quilted. Her husband was never found
and the woman, mother of the girl
is in Waco now, having been summon
ed here from San Antonio, whe re she
now lives.
A NEWS reporter called at the Jail
today and found Mrs. Weir
and her mother together. They
at once began to beseech
THs News mas to publish nothing
Very little was cleaned from the
prisoner, and the reporter was com.
PEELED to rely upon other sources for
what informa ton is here given.
1t seems as though Mrs. Weir
has been an inmate of convent at
Austin, and her mother thought she
was still under its protecting influ-
ences. She was notified by telegram
OF the trouble her d"ughter was in,
and came up last night. She did
not know her daughter was married,
and as she is under age there will
probably be some inquiry about her
manner of escape from the convent
at Austin, and her marriage with
Weir.