San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02
'THE FAIR
WAGNER & cHABOT,
FIVE YEARS FOR ]. 0. DALTON.
HE Is THE PAL OF LEE SAPP, THE
ESCAPED PRISONER.
They are Accused of Stealing a
Gold Watch Valued at $1SO-A
Local Bartender Sued for Divorce
Other News of the Court.

The first case on the criminal docket of
the Thirty-seventh District court this
morning was that against John Jones.
charged with SeduCing lSella Fletcher,
unmarried and under the age of twenty
five years, on March s, 1898, under the
promise of marriage. The case was cor
tinued by consent.
The next was a case against K. A.
Serna, charged with assault to murder.
This case was also continued. Serna is
accused OF having made an assault with
intent to murder on Jacob SeidemanR on
last August %.
A case against J.. o. Dalton, for theft
over $50, was next called and taken up.
A Jury was impaneled and the trial be-
gun. Dalton is accused OF stealing a
double-case gold watch valued at $50,
and belonging to Bob Mcintyre, on July
Is, 1898.
Judge Noonan read the charge to the
jury about 1890 o'clock. and a verdict
was brought in assessing DaltOn'S pun
ishment at five years In the penitentiary.
Lee Sapp, who walked out of the coun- |
ty Jail, some time ago is indicted on the
same charge. and is a pal of Dalton. He
has not yet been captured, and his case
will not be tried until Sapp is caught up
with.
A SUIT FOL DIVORCE.
Louisa Fenner is complaining Of her
husband, A. R. Fenner, and has entered
suit for divorce in the Thirty-Seventh
District court. She alleges abandonment. |
She says in her complaint that they were
married in BeXar county on October 81,
1883, and that she gave birth to a girl
child on October p, 1889, and named her
Freda. About that time. she claims, her
her husband left her and Staid away two
years, during which time she was com
PEELED to support herself and child by
manual labor as a common servant in a
restaurant" She says he returned in Oc-
tOber. 1891, and they resumed the marital
relations and lived together for about
eight months, when the husband deserted
his wife again, which was in June, 1893.
and she became the mother of their
second child. a boy, named Robert, on July
%, last. The husband, the wife alleges,
Is a bar tender and earns good wages,
but failed to provide for her during the
time he has abandoned her and that she
has nothing to depend upon but her own
manual labor, with which TO support her
children and herself. She also asks for
Rllmony during the tendency Of the suit,
and lor custody and guardianship Of the
children.
KARNES COUNTY MURDERERS HERE.
Sheriff j. J. Scale, of Karnes county,
arrived In San Antonio last Saturday and
placed the following prisoners in the
county jail for safe keeping, who were
brought here from KarneS county:
John Pace, accused OF numbering a man
named Ambrose Collins in August, 1892:
Jim Miller, colored, for the MUIR
der OF a negro by the name Of Paul
Jones, in Karnes county, last summer;
Napoleon Burns, COlOred, for the murder
Of a Mexican on last October G.; Marcos
ZamOra, for assault to murder a Mexican
named Ramon IamOra in Karnes county
about two years ago. and E. q. Cochran,
for stealing a horse about two years ago.
They will remain here until the cases
are called for trial. Sheriff Scale left for
home yesterday.
WILL HAVE A THIRD TRIAL.
The civil suit for debt of the Hercules
Iron works against the Alamo Mills COM
pany. which was decided in the Forty
NTH District court, a Jew weeks ago after
being on trial about two weeks, will be
tried again. This will be the third trial
OF the case. Judgment was rendered for
plaintiff in the former two trials. Plain
tins motion for a new trial was granted
by Judge King last Saturday.
o BETTE OR WORSE.
County Clerk Thad. Smith has issued
licenses to wed as follows:
W. S. Bishop and Eliza j.. Edwards.
j. |. Day and Gull +. CHRISTOPHER.
Cecil Frank Williams Theresa NJ, Cum
ms.
Henry Herms and Emma Wingfeld.
Joe Battiste ana Maggie Snyder.
COURT NOTES
Alb. Frank is suingS S. A Thompson and
wife for debt and foreclosure Of lien in
the Thirty-seventh District court.
The City Of San Antonio is being sued
by the San Antonio Waterworks company
for debt in the Thirty-seventh District
court.
Mrs. W. II. Folsom, who is suing her
husband for divorce, was granted $40 pei
month for alimony by Judge King last
Saturday.
Judge Jones will perform the marriage
ceremony of Joe Battiste and Maggie
Snyder at the residence Of the bride!
parents at No. 21s Nogalitos street.
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