El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-02
SHOULD BE STOPPED.
Serious Charges MaliciOusly Brought
Against Men.

Against Men.
A man named Ray Bradshaw was
arrested last night on the charge OF be-
ing drunk. He was released by the
police in his own recOgD1Zance ana this
morning he was fined one dollar, which
he paid and was then released from
custody.
There was nothing either startling
or interesting in the case, as it appear
ed in court. However, behind 1t all
lay another charge OF q more serious
character. People will remember that
two weeks ago the HERALD published
an account of an attempted rape upon
the person of a Titled girl named NATL
de Smith Antonio Abeita was charged
with the attempt, and the girls mo-
Their, Julia Smith, was charged with
being an accessory to the crime. Inc
prose cutting WITNESSES were a street
candy vendor named O'Halr and Matll-
de Smith. The herald published the
statements made by these two witness
es, but the HERALD reporter after
| wards had an interview with Julia
Smith at the jail and an entirely diff
| ferent complexion on the case. Julia
Smith stated that O'Hair and herself
aad been living together but that on
account of his acts in spelling her little
girl, so she had no more control over
her, she decided to quit O'Hairr
|
him and he threatened to be revepg-d.
She did not think seriously of his
threat, Sut continued to live away
| from him and told him so. One night
Antonio Abeito came to her house and
With other friends in her room was
drinking beer. After awhile she mis-
sed her little girl Matilde and esked
| Antonio to go and bring her back as
she did not want her girl to stay in
IO'Hair's room. Antooio found the
| girl in O'Ha!r's room, but she refused
| to go home with him, saying that she
| was afraid her mother wOul1 whip her.
| She called the girl and then Matllde
came home, aud Antonio threw the
| girl on the bed and told her to remain
there and not go out any more;
Then Julia Smith went over and
slapped the child becs use she had for
| hidden her going 10 O'Hair's room.
| O'Hair was on the outside watching
and when she Julia Smtth) slapped
| the girl he called for the police. Off
Ger Franco came and Matilda was
taken away from her mother aud put In
an adjoining room with her mothers
| FRIEND, where she remaired all night.
The next day OHair and the little
girl went before q justice If the peace
and ch srged Ab,etO with attempted
rape and the grand jury found true
| bills against AbietO and Julia Smith.
| Julia Smith said she did not want
her child, Matilda to go with O'Halr,
as he was influencing the child against
her, and she was afr a d that ne would
| eventually ruin the child. Ste SAID
she hal Mexican friends who would
take the girl, but they were afraid
they would be taken up in court and
did not want to do so for that reason.
| Since Julia Smith has been in all
Matilde has been continually with
O'Hair and no effort has been made to
take her away from him. He watches
her continually and will not allow any
one else to talk to her, and this is sup
posed to be the cause OF the case last
light.
The man Ray Bradshaw came along,
and he says he was drinking. He stop
ped and talked to the girl minute
| about buying some peanuts ana candy
| and joked her, but Bradshaw says that
while he was talking TO her " Hair
| was standing at the bank corner, eight
feet away. That he said nothing out OF
| the way to the girl and it never enter
ed his mind that anything wrong could
| be made out of his remarks to ner. He
said he was arrested for being drunk
| and plead guilty and paid his fine and
| this is all there is to the case.
Men on the streets have continually
been making remarks about y Hairs
interest in the girl and there is a strong
| revolution of public feeling against
him on account of his continually get
| ting some one into trouble about the
girl.
A HERALD reporter called at the jail
| this morning and tried to see Julia
Smith, but the orders of District Attor-
ney Dean were that no one was To be
allowed to see Julia Smith. The re-
porter asked District Attorney Dean
PERM ssicn to Sc the woman, but Dan
said that 1.-The newspapers preJadlced
jury" but after while consented to
talk with the reporter about the case,
but no permit could be obtained for to
day.
Rev. DR.. Martin was given rousing