The herald., 1896-08-11
MANUEL NOW A Prisoner
A De C0r0nel in Custody
of the Sheriff
WAS IN CONTEMPT OF COURT
A Bench Warrant Found the
Old Man Quickly
A ONE.DAY JAIL SENTENCE
The Old Don Will Be on the Stand to
Testify Today
A ONE.DAY JAIL SENTENCE
Disineorporation Of Long Beach Heard Be.
for Judge Clark
Judge WelIborn Of the U. S. District Court
Temporarily Rnds the Efforts to Pre-
vent San Diego From Owning
Water P,ant-Court News

There was a sensation in the Coronel
will case in Judge Shaw's department of
the superior court yesterday. and an
other is expected today. The first came
| shortly after o'clock. 1t was after
| George Steckel. the photographer. had
testified regarding the pictures taken Of
both the real as well as the presumed
false signatures of F. de Coronel. copies
of which Steckel had made for exhibit in
the case, and after p. l.. Ducasse had
told the court about a certain eXamina =
tion of Mrs. Garcia held last November
in the office of Alva Udell. during which
Major Horace Bell insists that the wit.
ness was ordered from the room because
of alleged improper translations of GER
tain evidence, and after the filing by
Senator White of more exhibits and the
introduction of some minor evidence.
Mrs. c. Edgar Smith. formerly Mrs. A.
F. Coronel, testified that she had mar
ried the Coronel in 1873. She first met
Yndart in either 1866 or 1867. Yndart
lived with the Coronels, later being sent
to an Oakland military academy from
the Coronel household. which was, in
1878 located at the corner of Seventh and
Alameda streets. Yndart had left the
witness house in 1894 one evening, say
ing he was going uptown to look for
situation, and he would be back for sup
per He never came back.
Senator White sought to prove by the
witness that upon one occasion Donna
Soledad Yndart had severly reproved
her son for being insolent to A. +. Coro-
mel, informing the former that he should
be very respectful to his uncle who was
both his and her patron, and without
his support, neither she nor young Yn-
dart could get along. Yndart also tried
on occasions to have his uncle adopt him
legally as his son.
Mrs. Smith was not cross examined.
After stipulation agreed upon all
around that all of the property in dispute
had always. since 1858, been assessed,
for purposes of taxation. to A. F. Coronal
up to the death of the latter. the sensa-
ton came: however. only in part.
A small l-sized Spanish-looking figure
was directed TO get into the witness box
by Judge Shaw and was sworn. 1t was
Manuel Coronel in his day private sec
retary to John c. Fremont, a Los An
geles councilman in the alcalde days. and
a member of the legislature. Manuel
said. through an interpreter. that, al
though served with subpoena in the case
he had decided not to testify, having an
agreement, so he said, not to do so with
certain parties in the litigation pending
A bench warrant had been secured, and
he had been apprehended yesterday,
just after his return from the mountains,
where he has been absent to escape the
process of the court.
Judge Shaw adjudged him guilty of
contempt and sent him to Jail for one
day. The court then adjourned. Manuel
de Coronel will be the star witness in the
case today. Deputy Sheriff Martin
Aguirre had no trouble in finding Don
Manuel de Coronel at his house over or
the E'a ST side