El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-23
F. S. MILLE6AN IN CHIHUAHUA
He Is Charged With Robblng His EN-
p1oyer.

Chihuahua Enterprise an item stating
that one W. B. Minnigan had been ar.
resting ON q charge of robbery. 1t
aroused suspicion that he was the in
dividual who attampted to pass spuri-
ous check on Boz Austin of this city on
the 14th of December last and an
Investigation followed which revealed
the fact that the man was none other
than F.. 8. MilleRaD, q well known
character in this city.
About 10 o'clock on the morning OF
the 14th of Decent Der last MilleRsn en-
tered the Palace saloon with . check
purporting to be drawn by Sam Blu
menthsl, payable to F. s. Millegan.
The check did not bear q revenue
stamp and when Manager Austin
noticed this be called Millegan's atten-
tion to it. Millegan said that he did
not care for that-to keep out quar-
dollars worth OF drinks besides This
display of liberslity on the part of Mil
legan aroused Mr.. Austin's suspicious
and he went out to zee Mr.. Biumen-
thai. He learned that the check was
forged and went back to the saloon to
find Millegsn but he had vanished.
The matter was reported to the police
and the chief issued instructions to ar
rest him on sight, but he crossed the
him brought back; so he passed from
the memory of his acquaintances in
this locality and sought pastures new
in which to operate. While here Mil
legsn was in the employ of John Brun-
ner, the tailor, and figured prominent
ly in Brunner's place during the re-
cent strike.
The following special to the HERALD
explains itself fully:
In D.
the HERALD:-Two men were arrest
ed for stealing three hundred dollars
from Dan O'Donnell, foreman at one
of . the railroad camps on the new
Chihuahua and Pacific road. Their
names are F. S. Millegan and J. eFreis.
Both are employed 1t the camp. Mr..
Millegan was time keeper.
''Mr. O'Donnell kept his money In q
box In his tent and he let Freis have
his key for some purpose, and when he
afterwards examined his box he
found his money was gone. The wife
of Freis was known to have more
money than she usually had so she was
searched and they found S1O7. She
claimed that :her husband and Melli-
gan had committed the robbery .aud
divided the money.
"B0th the men were arrested and they
had q preliminary bearing and we're
held for trial. They are now in jail.
No one is allowed to visit them so the
denied the charge. The circumstances
and the woman's story are very much
against them"
"F. s. Milligan claims that his fa-
mily lives in Ell PasO. No one can tell
when they will have q trial
Millegan has made himself very con-
spicuous in several towns In Arizona
and New Mexico during the past few
years. During his stay in Gallup, N.
suit club and when he had secured
about enough money to make the suit /,
he disappeared from Gallup as sudden
ly as he did from here. He went from
there to Globe and started tailor
shop After running it for q while he
traded the shop for Q phonohrsph and
started to travel. He went to Phoenix
and soon after crossed the Salt River
and went to Mesa City, Arizona, where
tants with his music box. At this
point the power of strong drink pre-
dominated and when he epent what
money hekhad he told the bartender OF
the -aloonsin which he wes.stationed to
charge the drinks to his machine. He
soon left there but the machine re-
mained for some time.
He then took in the line between
Phoenix and this place. He worked
for Brunner short time and then
went to Fort Worth, where he was &C
cused of stealing articles from his
brother workmen. For this offense he
was arrested at Weatherford, Texas,
but, it is said, was not convicted. He
then returned to Ell Paso and took
the place of one of the
tailors who was out on q
strike at Brunner's establishments
During the excitement of the strike
Mi1legsn lived very quiet life but
soon after it was settled the strain of
honesty became burdensome and he
attempted to get some money on q
spurious check, and no doubt would
have succeeded had not his hberality
got the better of his judgment.