El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-12
A CLEVER CAPTURE
BY Deputies Of a Man Want
ed In Midland
LIVELY PO- ICE NEWS
4 Hardened Vag ant Who Is Sati-
LED With Living in JaiI-a Gun
Toter From Bisbee.-A Gun piay
Frustrated Minor Items.


Frustrated Minor Items.
Deputy Sheriffs Bryant and Lyons
made one of the cleverest captures on
record last night. With only the bar
est possible description he Identified
and arrested Ed Rogers an alleged
forger, wanted by the sheriff at Mid
land, Texas.
Monday night the sheriff's office in
this city received a telegram from
Sheriff Thomas of Midland which was
marvel for brevity and incomplete
ness. 1t said:
Arrest man on train. six feet, black
hair, beard six weeks, black hat from
Midland
With only this faint clue Deputies
Bryant and Lyons started out to hunt
for their man. They met the incom-
ing T. & p. train last night and stood
at the depot platform as the passen-
gers alighted and noticed two men
who might possibly answer the des-
eruption.
The officers stopped both and asked
them their names. One of them after
hesitating said his name was Rogers
and he was from Midland. He was told
began to argue with the deputies. He
said he left Midland in broad daylight
and the sheriff knew he was going. In
spite of this the officers took him to
Jail and locked him up.
Rogers is a tall. why looking young
feiIow. When n Herald reporter call
ed to see him in his cell at the county
Jail this morning he was stretched out
in his hammock. which is swung across
the cell, about three feet above the
floor.
What have they got you charged
with. Mr.. Rogers?" asked the reporter.
''All / know about it is what was
said in the telegram to the sheriff"
We'll, that might mean anything.
What specific crime are you charged
with?''
Il do not know; 1 left Midland with
only three dollars. borrowed money, in
my pocket and IL 1 forged any check
and, made anything by it 1 do not
know anything about it,
The prisoner said ne had resided sew
en- years at Midland. He had been
COW puncher four years and a bar
keeper three.
Sheriff Thomas will arrive tonight
to take charge of the prisoner.
A Hardened Good-for-Nothing.
VIM. West was arrested last night |
by the Waterman at the Santa Fe de- |
pot and placed in Jail on a charge of |
vagrancy. West is one of the toughs |
who hang around the Philippine sa-
loon and is arrested at least once |
week. This morning Acting City Re
corder Wallace fined him $40 and |
Chief Lockhart said that he would |
keep him locked up in a back cell and |
only feed him on bread and water.
When placed in jail last night the
jailor asked West why he had not left |
town. telling him that he had been or
lered out several times. lei Paso is
easy" said West. land you fellows
mighe just as well let me alone as l
am going to stay here this winter and
so long as am in Jail I don't have to
hustle for my bread" He will get
sick on the board he gets at the police
station before he has served his SEN
-ence.
Two other toughs were arrested last
night and showed fight when Officer
arrested them and they were
also fined so and the chief ordered
them out of town.
Thought He Needed a Gun.
An Irishman giving his name as
Mike Morrison was arrested last night
by Officer Deniston and placed in Jail
for carrying a pistol. He was brought |
in court this morning and the charge
against him was read.
"Whas is your plea?" asked the
Judge.
"Sure now and I don't know what |
you mean" was the reply.
Are you guilty or not guilty?"
What's that now"
did you have a pistol on you when
you We're arrested?"
'Sure now and did,
He was told that it was against the
law to carry pistol and that his fine
would be s25. He came here Monday
from Bisbee and said that everybody
carried a pistol there and he supposed
that he could do the same here. He
was evidently a new conner to this
He Answers the Description.
Just before court opened this morn
ing at the police station George Harold
was called to South Ell Paso street to
arrest young man who had fallen
Of glass window a |