Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-13
CASE OF MRS. CASTLE
She and Her Husband are Ar
raigned in Court and Re-
manded for a Week.
CONFIDENT CANDIDATES
National Executive Committee of
the Peoples Party Consider
Matter of Fusion.
A NATAL DAY CELEBRATED

LEAD CASTLE, LONDON, October Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter M. Castle, O
San Francisco, who were arrested or
October 7th, on the charge OF stealing
a number of valuable furs, after ar
raignment in the great Marlborough
street police court, were remanded fol
week, the magistrate requiring bal
in the sum of f4O, 900 for the release Of
both prisoners, pending the arraign
ment, next week.
The great Marlborough street court
room was crowded with spectators
when Magistrate Newton took his seat
on the bench and the defendants were
brought into court. Mrs. Castle was
greatly agitated as she walked into
court, supported by her husband. who
kept his arm around her. Hon. j. K.
Roosevelt, secrerary of the United
States embassy, and Mr.. Hudson were
present as representatives of the en-
bassy to safeguard the interests of the
prisoners; also, number of other
Americans. all of them in sympathy
with the prisoners.
When the case was called, Mr.. Avo-
ry, representative for the public prose-
cutor, said the prisoners had hitherto
been 10 excellent repute as citizens of
San Francisco. II the case, he said,
had been that of an extravagant wo-
man buying quantities of articles, un-
der promise to pay, there would have
been some excuse for the prisoners,
but, instead of the case bearing any
such aspect, it was an ordinary affair
of shop-lifting. The prisoners had lived
CLEANED frcm various shops variety
of articles, such as eighteen tortoise
shell combs, which were certainly in
excess of their requirements, seven
ivory-framed hand mirrors, seven gold
watches, seventeen fans, sixteen brooch
es, and great many other articles. 1t
was difficult to believe, Mr.. Avory
continued, that the male prisoner could
have been unaware of what articles his |
wife had In her possession, as Mr.. Cas-
tie had been in the shops when the arti-
cles, found in his wife's possession,
were missed. Mr.. Avory admitted, how |
ever, that it was possible that the hus-
band had been unconscious Of what was
going on, but, on the other hand, the |
wife might have been getting articles
by her husbands connivance, or
through his coercion.
Charles Matthews, counsel for the |
prisoners, dwelt on the integrity, high |
position and sffluence of the prisoners,
whose family, he said, was ready to
furnish bail for them in any sum, no
matter how high, Mr.. Matthews said
that he was prepared with complete
answer to the charges against the pris-
oners. The case of the lady, he said,
was extremely painful. She had done
what she would hereafter be called up
on to answer for Her reputation
hitherto had been that of a woman of
integrity, but her medical history, dur
ing the last three months, had been of
a character which led the physicians
who were present in court to certify
that she was laboring under the effects
of disease which was likely to lead to
the temporary overthrow of her mind.
To this the doctors would testify when
called upon. Mr. Matthew'S address
to the court on behalf of the prisoners
was frequently interrupted by Mrs
Castles sobs.
Mr.. Avory, for tAe prosecution, said
he would make no opposition to the
admission of the prisoners to bail. The
physician at Holloway jail stated to the
courf that the datention Of Mrs Caaf1p I
In Jail had been, and would continue
TO be, highly injurious to her health.
The fourth surety is Charles Guthrie,
Of the firm of Chalmers, Guthrie &
Co., bankers and merchants, of 9 Idol
Lane, London.