El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-23

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one of the officers in attendance con
planned TO is mother, who then re
moved It TO the corridor outside.
County Treasurer John P. O'Cor
nor, brother of the murdered man
wac in the court ;room this mornln
during the proceedings. The publ
has by no means forgotten the traei
death OF young O'Connor, . year ago
and the case will attract almost equal
iy she amount of attention now that i
aid when tried many months ago.
| O'COnnor was shot one Sunday nigh
In Phil Young's saloon while endeavor
ing TO exhibit to a friend the working
of the automatic baajo picking ma
chine that was at that time one o.
the chief attractions of the place. A
| bunch of Mexicans, among whom wa;
| the boy Garcia, were in the saloon at
the time and one of Them WAS Leading
against the machine 60 thst O'Connor
could not operate IL. He requested
the man TO move and after some words
bad been passed O'Connor knocked
him down.
crowd and O'Conuor fell forward upon
,hs floor. The Mexicsns scattered and
for a time it was almost impossible to
determine who had fired the shot
However, the mystery was solved q
few hours later when Edelberto Car
Ella was turned over by his father 20
the officers and his guilt fully estab-
lished.
O'Connor afterwards expired at
Hotel Dieu and Garcia was indicted
for murder.
His only excuse for the killing was
that O'COnnor had struck his kinsman
and he had shot O'Connor to defend
him. The jury found him guilty of
murder in the first degree and fixed
his penalty at hanging. but the court
OF appeals reversed the finding ana
the second trial of the case began to-
day.
Judge Walthall finally decided to
grant the application of defendant
: 20 case WAS cohtinusd Indefinitely,
uut will probably be tried during the
present term.
LIVELY DEAD NAN
Shortly before noon today Officer
Tay Ior received q message that there
was . dead man up near dotel Dieu,
ana he 81 once started for the scene,
when ne learned that the man was
Obiy ne CelIsQ 40 express
wagon and went after him, found his
mao, and with some difficulty LOADED
him in The wagon. Getting on the
seat with the driver he started for the
police station.
he would occasionally look back to
see his man sleeping his drunken sleep.
But when he arrived at the
police station and went to unload HE
man there was no one In the wagon.
Where he was gone Was a mystery,
and IL WAS at once supposed that he
started back after him. But he was
not lying Ia the road as the officer had
expected TO find him. Taylor return
ed to the station and then started
down town. when he saw his man hid
ding oehiod the Lion grocery store
and he arrested him and marched him
to jail. The boys at the station had
quite little fun st Taylor's expense.
TWO THEFTS.
Captain Casey reports the loss of a
line woven wire hammock. he Gays
that 1t was stolen Sunday night by
burglars ard thinks they would have
Esken more but were frightened away.
Shortly after one O'Clock yesterday
afternoon S35 in gold was taken from
ne money drawer in the office OF Nc
Cutcheon, Payne & Company on Chi
nuahua street. Mr. McCutcheon had
stepped out of the Cline into the ware
.oom and was only absent moment,
,ut when he returned the money was
zone, although he did not discover it
Or some time. There Ia no clue what
,ver as 30 w no the thief Is but the po-
ice were notified and detective is
working on the case.
AFTER CZUCKE.
Sheriff d l.. Murray, of Msricopa
ounty, Arizona, Is in the city to con-
'ey Max CzucSe back to Phoenix, |
Vhere he Is wanted for embezzlement. |
Czucke is accused of having gotten |
way with several thousand dollars Of |
lie employers money.
LUNATIC IMPRISONED
Another wild eyed lunstic vas
brought TO the county jail this morn
uR and Imprisoned.
He had just returned from Jusrez.
vhere he was kept In Jail for weeks,
md AZ soon "a he cached Ell PAso |
resteda disturbance.
Officer Garcia went down to Chihua-
iafta and arrested him and with the |