The herald., 1897-01-05
70 PUT UP $500 FOR BUD
No One Seems Anxious For
the Job
PRICES B0XDSMEA EXAMINED
g. M. Miller Reconsiders His
Previous Promise
WAS MISREPSENTED TO HIM
Judge Smith Prouounces the Bewssr
Case Moustrous
Youag Lehman Again Slips Through the
Meshes
Judge Allen Absent on the First Day
WAS MISREPSENTED TO HIM
Judge Smith Pr0uounces the Bowssr
Case Moustr0us
Young Lehman Again Slips Through the
Meshes
Judge Allen Absent on the First Day
Through Iilness-Belardes Gets Five
Years at Folsom-Pellegrim
Held in $1,000 Bail.

| W.. L. Price, erstwhile knows as BUD
Price, is apparently not happy.
The word apparently" is used advis-
edly for the fact can only be inferred
from the actions of the litigiously IN
| clined gentleman In question
| Yesterday afternoon was the time set
| for the court to approve the bond of the
most notable Mr.. Price and, incidentally
for some examination to be made into
the bona-fides of his bondsmen.
]. G. Lewis, one of the proprietors OF
| the 400" saloon, corner of Main and
Fourth streets, and g. NJ. Miller, who
conducts the barber shop in the basement
of the Stimson block, were the gentle
men who had professed their willing
ness to stand behind Mr.. Price in his at
! tempt to recover So, 900 for damages to
| his character, the value of which in Its
| intact condition Mr. Price has not ven-
tured to state.
Mr. Lewis bobed up serenely in court,
in company with Attorney Meserve. but
Mr.. Miller was conspicuous by his alb
| sence, and Bud" Price also was num-
bered among. the missing For Miller
absence there was some just cause and
good reason-but Of that anon. 1nas-
much, however, as the versatile Bud"
had been gamboling around the corri-
doris immeditely before his case was
called, II did seem ia ther strange that
he should not have put in an appear
ance in the courtroom when a matter of
such vital interest to him is having S25,-
900 worth of chips knocked from off his
character was being considered 1t is not
an unfair inference that Mr.. Price was
unhappy, and for reasons stated above.
First of all, however, Mr.. Lewis went
upon the witness stand and was submit
ted to rigid examination by Attorney
F. Z, Davis requiring his qualifications
as a bonGsman. 1t is one thing to Voluu-
teer to go upon a friends bond, and quite
another to submit to a close examina-
ton regarding ones private affairs, and
Mr.. Lewis is scarcely to be blamed if he
did not enthuse while teStifying as to
the amount of the worldly pelf he had
been so fortunate as to gather together
He stated that he owned a half-iuter-
est in the 400" saloon and lodging house,
where he lived. The firm dic not owe
any bills except the ordinary running ac-
counts-S200 to $500 The fixtures were
worth about $1,000 and the saloon stock
he estimated would be worth from $1,000
to $1,000 Being pressed by Mr.. Davis,
the witness fixed the minimum amount
as the approximate value of the stock
Mr.. Lewis modestly confessed to having
bank account, but could not tell the
amount credited to him. 1t was a private
and not partnership account and so
could not be certain as to the amount.
Then Mr.. Lewis stated he had some
property at San Pedro that he had paid
$3.50 for i'll 1886 Business has not been
booming by the sad sea waves in the in
terim and so he modestly valued the
same property at $500 Then there WAS
an amount of mining property that wit.
ness modesty again interposed to pre-
vent him from validating. But Judge
Shaw was curious about the mining
property and wanted to know just what
II amounted to- Under pressure from
the court the witness stated that his
claims in San Diego county had cost
$4,000, divided up between himself and
two other partners. T. c. Williams and
j. II. Holtz were his partners, and .he
partnership was not in debt Work i,
going on in small way, but no gang
OF men is being employed a present. HIS
snare IN the mining deal had been paid
FOR IN lnstallments as the money was re-
quired
rms was the showing made by M.
Lewis, and Mr.. Miller, the other bonds
man, was in demand. but as a matter,
OF tact ne was non est, which, in good
united states means, he kept close 20
his barber shop and let the court severely
alone.
The reason for Mr.. Miller's failure to
materlalize in court Were rather odd If
the explanation giVen-and it is reported
as Mr.. Miller's owns correct in detail
1T is said that when visions of prospec-
tive wealth opened out before the de-
lighted gaze of Bud" Price, he hustled
| around to get the bondsmen rendered
necessary by the inexorable law before
he could take the preliminary steps
| toward annexing that $25, ,00G-eve in his
! NINA. In company with Attorney Pen
dleton he called in at Niller's barber
shop in the Stimson block and invited
Mr. Miller TO go on his boud That gen
tleman promptly responded that as a
matter of fact he did not own an5- prom
rrty and so he could not qualify in any
case. But his visitors started in and
speedily proved to Miller that his legal
knowledge didn't amount to a hill of
beans;' that he being married man
| and living IN a house hte had the neces-
sary standing to qualify on the bond re-
qulred. AT the time. probably, Mr.. Mil
Ter felt bigger man than ne had ten
minutes before. and he promptly told
Bud to let her CO." that if that was
all they wanted he'd go on the bond
right enough.
But Mr.. Miller is nobody's fool and a
later date he discovered that Mess1s
Price and Pendeton had, well, Just
elongated the truth a little, not to put
the matter any stronger, and that not
4, being a property owner or possessing
anything in the way Of this worlds goods
he was disqualified from serving as a
bondsman. Thereupon Mr. Miller no.
tilted Price that he might count him
out of the deal
All this, naturally enough, did not
come out in open court. On the con-
trary, Attorney Meserve, representing
"Rud' Price, while conceding that Mil
! ler had Withdrawn, stated that he had
a substitute, but this parsonage had got
Wearied in court and had gone where
other business called him
Mr.. Davis then asked that the mat
| ter be continued in order that he be
heard on the qualifications OF AIr. Lewis,
and also allow him a chance 10 nterro-
gate Mr.. Millor's myth cal substitute
He contended that according to MI
Lewis own showing the only property