La Junta tribune., 1898-06-11
music HATH cnAsms.
An Ex-Ls Junts esndmsstss Puts S's
and ,s.Yssr-oId Girl IN His In.
eide Pocket and 10 Found
out-Tsouble Ahead.

brief and highly-colored engage
ment in this city as leader and in
s,ructor OF the La Junta band, has
come to grief in Denver. He
spent most OF his time in this city
painting the town brilliant car
mine, and the night before he left
borrowed SIS from conflding
female admirer, with which he pro-
cecded to buy more "red paint. !"
The SIS mentioned in the dispatch
below from the Denver Republi-
can OF Thursday, is probably the
same amount which il is known
that he borrowed here before leav-
ing. Following is the story
Officers Griffith, Boykin and
Haynes arrested Wednesday morn
ing at 2:4o o'clock Harry Taylor,
aged 81, and Katie Clark, aged IS.
Taylor was charged with criminal
assault, and the girl as witness
and also for incorrigibility. The
arrests were made at the corner of
Nineteenth and Larimer streets,
near the Hotel Bristol, where the
pair had been stopping. From let
ters found in Taylor's possession
by the police, Mrs. NJ. c. Estes, Of
La Junta, Colo, had given her con-
sent to Taylor marrying her daugh
ter for a cash consideration of SIS.
In Taylor's possession were
found a number of letters from
Mrs. Estes, one of them saying:
"Do not marry Harry until he has
sent me the money he promised
me. II he don't send me the
money by return mail, | will have
you come back home" In one of
the letters TO Taylor Mrs. Estes
said: "You promised me SIS.
Now, why don't you send il to me9"
One letter to Taylor from Mrs.
Estes began as follows: "Dear
Son-You must not get mad at
your mama" The above letters,
the police believe, indicate very
strongly that the mother sold her
daughter for SIS, and steps will be
taken to have Mrs. Estes prose-
cutcd. Yesterday morning Taylor
showed a note addressed to pro-
bate court judge, giving him per-
mission to marry Katie Clark and
it read as follows:
"Mr. Probate Judge-You know
am the mother OF this girl. |
have given my consent to this man
that they may be married at any
time they may come before you,
although you may think she's
young, but you may marry them;
II is my consent. She has step
father. think this man will treat
her better than she is at home. So
you may have my consent in this
matter. Youss very truly,
"MRs. Nj. c. Estes,
"La Junta, Colo"
The girl testified to having seen
her mother write this note and then
give it to Taylor. However, it
came to light that the couple were
not married. Taylor tried to in
duce her to enter a dance hall on
Market street and earn her living.
This she refused to do, and then
he abandoned her for several DAYS,
during which time she wrote a pa
thetic letter to him, asking him to
come back and not desert her in a
strange city among strange people.
Taylor came to Denver about
six weeks ago and has been play
ing the cornet in a Market street
resort since his arrival. He told
the police yesterday that he has a
wife living in Missouri, and also a
boy 9 years old and little girl
aged 2. He refused to speak about
his wife.
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Katie Clark was IS years old last
month, and is frail little girl,
rather tall for her age and looks as
if she had been raised somewhere