El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-02
A SMOOTH CATCH.
Two Robbers Caught and one Escaped
the Officer.

Lne UI1cef.
This morning between and So'clock
Officer HerOld took ride up towards
the headgate of the canal to see if any
| thing was going On up that way. When
near the headgate he saw three Mexi-
cans carrying bundles. He rode up
fast and got in between two of tue gang
and the river and George says as he
| did so the one near the RIVER pulled q
| pistol aud yelled TO the others to run.
George jumped off his horSs and caught
! the o,her two, but the one with The
gun waded the river and escaped. He
carried sack. that seemed to be well
filed with something, but what it was
George d d not know.
/ The two men captured were Jesus
Luna and Psscual Martinez. One Of
them was cGrryi g q drummer sampla-
case which tur0ed out to be fixed with
drugs, labels, &c, thai a-drug drum
mer usually carries. The other Mex
/ lean had three pair of new pants and
bought down to the police station
! along with the goods captured and af-
! ter .diligent search around town it
was at last found that the drummer's
/ sample case was stolen from Aber's
Palace Pharmacy, and BELONGED to
! VIM. II. Groat. representing Lebn &
Fink, of New York. Mr.. Groat recogn'z-
|
and after making affidavit as to it's
value, it was turned over to him.
| The clothing stolen was recognized
| by MIR. Allen as belonging to him as
every piece had his cost mark on the m
He did DO. know his place had been
robbed until notified this morning by
the Officers and reporter of the HER
AID, The goods were turned over to
| him and the MeXice MS transferred to
the county Jail charged with theft
under the value of $50, which makes
| the cases simply mi emeanor case
tina. is punished by fine and term in
jail.
| If the Mexican who escaped could
| have been caught probably enous h
| goods could have been found on the
three 10 have brought the value up to
, over fly dollars and they would have
| all been sent to the pen.
| George iHerold says the parties are
old offenders and one them, Jesus Luna,
! has been arrested by him three times
| for breach CT the law. They ar, sp-
| parently well organized gang Ct shop
lifters, out just how they could have
| walked into Aliens store and taken
several pair of pants without being
| seen is a mystery. The clerks said to
| a HERALD Re- porter this morning that
only three Mexicans had been in there
all morning and they all came in
separately and they are at sea as to
what time the partie could have en-
| tered and stolen goods, but think it
must have been done last night.
Governor Ahumada.
His excellency Governor Miguel
Ahumada arrived on this afternoon
train from California, AMI was i'm
mediately taken charge of by his
friends. There were fully fifty of these,
including the most prominent men
from Juarez, and number of
prominent citizens from this side,
including Collector Davis, Editor
before the governor could even get off
the car platform. and Their it required
some ten minutes more for hand shak-
ing and EN- bracing on the platform,
Mrs. Ahumada was with the governor.
They had gone west from ST. Louis over
the Santa Fe from Los Angeles whe e
they left their son in school. and then
they turned their faces astward to this
city.
Carriages were in waltz at the South
ern p fic depot, and Governor ard
Mrs. Abumada were driven immedi-
a ely over the river. A big rece otion
isgoing on over there. and the principal
streets are decorated in honor Of the
governors visit, as be and his wife
continue south to the capital.
Major WOrthen, chief engineer of
the L. & p. returned east this after
noon. He said he talked the matter of
the levee over with the mayor, but
nothiu had been agreed upon as yet or
anyth ng decided. However, he woulG |
say that the proposed levee would be a
very good thing, aud was So tis6ed that |
che would before very long be built. |
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