El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-10
Sensational Incident At San
derson, Texas, When the
Arrest Was Made.
HIS ACCUSER IS FACED
Superintendent Martin Be-
lieves the Accused Is In
nocent Of the Crime
Charged.

r. B. Isaac was this morning brought
back from Sandersop by Ben jenkins,
who had been specially deputized 10 ar
rest him on q warrant charging bigs.
my.
So much comment had been created
by the marriage of Isaac to Miss Lucy
Kueeland, and so much Indignation
had been aroused by the reported
former marriages, that the officers
| here feared trouble, and took precsu-
station.
Supt. Martin telegraphed down the
lire to the engineer on the incomin G
train to recognize the signal of Specisl
Officer Raynor, and he and Deputy
Ed. Bryant drove down in a buggy and
met and stopped the train at the T. &
e. switch-off.
There Deputy jenkins and the pris-
oner were found concealed in the Ia
dies salon. Their plan had been to
remain th here until the crowd at the
station should disperse. However, the
later plan seemed the better, and
Isasc was taken by Deputies Bryant
and jenkins to the Jail. When he ar
rived at the jail he asked Capt. Lyons
to protect him, and this the jailer as
sured him he would do.
At the station there was a crowd of
between fifty and seventy curious peo-
pie, aud these dispersed when they
were told by Officer Raynor, who came
in on the train, that Isaac was not. on
board.
Mrs. Kneeland and Mrs. Jenkins,
with Mrs. Isaac, left the train at the
depot and were driven at once to the
Kneeland home on San Antonio street.
AT the jail, Isaac asked for some,
thing to eat, az light lunch of coffee
and toast was ordered sent in to him
by Jailor Lyons. He refused to make
any statement until this afternoon,
W hen he promised to give statement
in full.
After dinner he was transferred
from the holdover cell to cell on the
upper tier, and no one was admitted
to see him, by his own request, except
by appointment.
When seen by a HERALD reporter
this afternoon he again refused to
m axe statement on the ground that
he had not yet seen his attorneys. He
bad not, at that hour, employed an
attorney, but said that he desired to
get Mr.. Patterson of Patterson, and
Wallace.
WHAT ISAAC SAYS.
In answer to various questions,
Isaac finally said: 81 prefer your
waiting until 1 get an attorney, when
1 shall make in full the statement I
should like to make now.
"However, / will say this: that l
have been married twice, to Mrs. Lucy
in Los Angeles, and to Mrs.
Virginia Bishop in San Francisco. 1
have be en- divorced from both.
"My divorce from Mrs. Mckenzie
was previous to my marriage to Mrs.
Bishop, though 1 cannot now remem-
Der the dates of either the marriage
or the divorce.
"The divorce from Mrs. Mckenzie
was procured by her, and not in Albu-
querque, but in: Boston. She got d.
vorce because OF my drinking habits.
AS to the statement that 1 squandered
her money it is all untrue, because the
whole Mckenzie family never had as
much as 100000, as they allege.
81 was married to Mrs. Bishop in !
San Francisco, aud the divorce was
granted there. 1 do not remember the |
date of the time it was granted. She |
procured the divorce and not 1. can
not tell you why the divorce was grant
ed. It was not becsue ofmy drinking
habits in this instance"
BEN JENKINS'S STORY.
Ben Jenkins this morning WAS very
tired after sleepless vigil CT 36 hours,
buf he was relieved to get back again.
They reached Sanderson, according
TO Mr.. ] enkins, about six O'Clock Fri