El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-12
Scenes Of Dramatic Interest
At the Jail Yesterday Ard
This Morning.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
In the Case Indicate That He
WasLawfulIy Divorced Once
And Will Be Lawfully
Divorced Again.

The most important development in
the case of r. B. Isaac, under arrest on
a charge of bigsmy. was the receipt IN
this city Saturday night of telegram
from Albuquerque, to the effect that a
divorce had been granted Mrs. McKen-
zie, in April of 1898, from Isaac, at a
time when she was legally Mrs. Isaac
This agrees with the statement made
. in the HERALD that Isaac had been
married after, his divorce from Mrs.
Mckenzie, and not before, and thus
frees him from liability to the charge
OF bigamy In that instance, if the tele-
gram received by Charles Mckenzie
last Friday is correct. According to
this telegram, Isaac was not married to
Miss Virginia Bishop in Los Angeles
until July %, 1898. This would give a
period of three months between the
date of his divorce. and the date of the
:, second marriage.
: However, the grounds on which the
divorce was granted at Albuquerque
were not only nonsuppcrt and drunken
ness, but alleged bigamy also, so that
there still remains the possibility that
the date given in the Los Angeles
would still leave unsettled the ques-
tion of bigamy. Mr.. Mckenzie is of
opinion that his mother secured the
divorce at the time stated in the tele-
gram from Albuquerque, that is, in
April, 1898.
VESTEPDAv
Isaac has retained Charley Patter-
son IS his attorney, as he informed the
HERALD he would do, and the attor-
ney has bsen several times to the jail
to see his client. Mr.. Patterson has
also been in telegraphic communica
tion with the father, w. B. Isaac, and
he has received virtual assurance from
him that he will sea the boy through.
No date has been set for Isaac's
trial, and his attorneys seem to be
Smaking no effort to hurry matters. 1t
is undsrst oo6 that nothing will be done
until the early part of next week, and
then they will sue out writ of habeas
corpus, and give bond for Isaac's sp-
pearance. The truth of the matter is
bot ov PLCcCAg '1SdoC 10 81 uuuSIS Gu
and nervous that there is no desire to
have him let out. Either with or with
out reason, some sort of violence is
feared, and with the man himself so
nearly on the verge of nervous col |
lapse, it Is thought ipadvissble to |
make any effort to get him out. This |
is the probable reason that the sugges-
ffon of many people is not followed.
that's If Isaac be innocent, all he need
90 is to have sent on at once proof and
GATE of his divorce.
THE MONEY ORDER MATTER,
Yesterday at the jail there was
scene Of some dramatic interest. It
resulted from az episode in the career
OF Isaac here. 1t is understood that it I
was through Will Kneelaud, who is
employed in the G. II. freight Office I
where Isaac worked, that Isaac became
acquainted with the young lady he mar
ried last week. He had done Mr. {
Kneeland "a slight service, and after 1
the latter left a few weeks since to Wis., {
1t his brother at Mapimi, Mexico, Isaac ,
received from his father from San l
Francisco postal order payable to {
the order of Kneeland. He hal OBJ
tanned this, so Kneeland says, by rep 1
res snting to his father that he owed
Kneeland that amount. When it ar
rived, it was sent on to Mapimi with
the request that KDeeland endorse and ,
return it. He saw how he was being
used to extort money from Isaac, Sr.,
and was at first about to refuse to do it,
when his brother suggested his endors-
ing the order, sending it to the First
National Bank here and at the same
time sending Isaac his check payable to :
Isaac to cover it. This was DONE =
AS it happened, the check reached =,
Isaao before the order reached the
bank, and when there wss some hesi- ,