Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-05-19
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Juan Candelaria Bound Over to Grand
Jury-Other Police News.

Juan Candelaria Bound over TO Grand
Jury-Other Police News.
Juan Candelaria, a man who has been
employed by W. II. MatsOn. was arrested
yesterday afternoon charged with passing
a forged check for $500 at the Golden
Rule Dry Goods store. The check was
signed with the name OF W. II. Matson,
and was on one Of his blank checks.
Candelaria had his hearing before Jus.
tice Crawford this morning lie pleaded
not guilty, and then W. II. Matson and j..
A. Weinman gave their testimony.
Mr.. Matson testified that he wa called
into the Bank Of Commerce yesterday al.
ternOOn and shown the forged check,
which he Immediately recognized as one
not issued by himself, because he always
wrote his checks with an indelible lead
pencil and this was written with an or
binary pencil. lie had. however, made
out q check for this amount payable 10
Juan Candelarla. q.
He Immediately returned to his Office
aud found that three check blanks had
bsen torn out OF the rear OF his check
book.
j. A. Weinman testified that the de-
PENDANT came into his store at about 6
o'clock Tuesday evening and purchased a
pair OF overalls for 20 cents for which he
offered him the forged check in pay
ment, which he accepted and returned
$685. in change. He sent the cheek,
with others to the bank yesterday morn
ing, and yesterday afternoon he was nOti-
ied that the check was no good.
Candelaria simply testified that he re-
ceiyed the check from Mr.. Matson.
The court bound him over TO the next
grand jury and fixed his bond at $3.50.
This forgery was quite a skillful piece
Of work and no II believes that IL was
done by Candelaria, who can hardly sign
his W name. Nevertheless he Is guilty
VI passing the check and certainly knows
from whom he received it, which he has
30 far refused TO diyulge.
OTHER MATTERS IN COURT.
SOfre Alexander was summoned before
the court to day for having violated the
are ordinance. The marshal testified
that Mr., Alexander had been warned, 30
he was fined IS for his neglect.
Marshal ForhOff was called from his
warm conch at about 5 o'clock this morn
lag to umpire a family dght between
Jennie Hayward and her husband, Rich
ard Hayward. The contest was made
about equal by Mrs. Hayward having in
her possession a large blade, without a
handle, with which she might have done
some good work had not the marshal pre-
vented further hOstilities. They appeared
before Justice Crawford and each was
very anxious 10 have the other one pun
ished. Justice Crawford sent them home
to agree upon an amieable compromise
by 2 o'clock this afternoon and In case OF
a failure he promised to send them both
to jail.
Arthur 0Nelll, who seems 10 have gone
daft over a suit OF clothes, assaulted a
party last night whom he said WAS wear
ing a suit OF clothes belonging to him.
officer Barnhill put an end to these
proceedings by arresting 0'Neill. The
latter described the suit very infinitely,
but his description did not correspond at
all with the n the man was wearing.
ONeill was brought before Justice Craw-
ford this morning, but he was discharged
as 1t appeared that he was just a triae
queer.
The cOlOred couple, Richard and Jen.
ME Hayward, appeared in the police
court this afternoon and reported that
they had been unable to agree upon a
satisfactory compromise between them
selves. Justice Crawford then placed
each OF them under 800 bonds TO pre-.
serve the peace toward each other. These
bonds were furnished.