The herald., 1895-03-21

HE WAS UP TO MISCHIEF
Jack Puccini's Arrest at San Bernar.
dino
Just Wanted to Say 1.-TWO Words" With q
Gun and Bowie Knife to
hrs. Puccini.

SAN BERNARDINO. March 2o.-The
police made an arrest here at noon today
which may have been the means Of avert
ing tragedy. There is about it a good
deal that is mysterious. The man placed
under arrest gives the name of Jack
Deliso PuccinI, and halls from Fresno.
When brought to the city Jail and
searched it was found that he had $500. IS
in money, and was armed with "A
caliber. double action revolver. He also
carried bouie knife, and was evidently
out for trouble.
He came to the city hall at noon, and
meeting Policeman Corbett SAID he wanted
an officer to go out with him to the
vicinity of the Santa Fe depot. He
stated that he wished to cali upon q
woman there and say ''just two words"
to her. The officer started with the man,
who acted little queerly, and when in
front of the postoffice the revolver drifted
Policeman Corbett at once took him to
the Jail, where he was searched with the
results given above.
The fellow was either under the influ-
ence Of liquor or little bit demented.
The man says that he ran away from
Fresno with his wife, and that she is in
this city, and he wants her to return
with him. But, in view of the fact that
his gun was loaded, and his generally des-
perate appearance, the local officers are
Inclined to think that he had planned
to hurt the woman if he could find her.
W. L. Taber was bound over to the
| Superior Court without bail yesterday by
Justice Soule. Tabor's preliminary ex-
animation occupied all the afternoon in
Justice Soule's court and after a number
OF witnesses had been examined the court
determined to hold the defendant, and
refused an application to fix bail for him.
Taber's wife was an interested spectator
during the afternoon, occupying a chair
at her husbands side talking to him
now and then, and occasionally whisper
ing to Cramer Morris, the attorney for the
defense. Taber himself is very much i'm
proved in appearance since the morning
he tramped down from the mountains
with him better than hiding among the
hills with little to eat and nothing to pro-
tect him from the storm.
The Examination did little more than
to bring out the story OF the homicide as
already published. and to give possible
outline of the defense. Unless this shall
be changed it is plain that Taber will at
tempt to prove that Mediums death was
the direct result of an insult offered to
Mrs. Taber.
Some of the officers are inclined to be
skeptical of what now seems to be the
line OF the defenSe. Deputy Sheriff Heap
was the first officer to interview Mrs.
Taber, and when he asked hei why her
husband had shot Medlin she protested to
know nothing OF the cause of the trouble.
Kate Barnes will be tried next week
upon the charge of attempting by the
systematic administration of poison to
murder her husband, Samuel W. Barnes.
After two postponements not on her own
account but to accommodate counsel in
the case, the trial was set some weeks ago
for March 25th
Emilio Garcia is on his way to the
penitentiary, where he will be executed
for the murder of Chicken JIM He
was taken from the county Jail at II 80
this morning, under heavy guard, and
hurried to the station. The murderer has
been under the eyes of the guards night
and day since he was sentenced. As he
was going from the court house after
being sentenced, he said to Constable
Arbos that he would never be hung, III
timatng that he would take his own life.
This was at once reported to the sheriff's
Office, and since that time two qua rds
have stood in his cell night and day. and
he was given no opportunity for self
destruction.