El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-18
White FOUND GUILTY
OF THEFT OF A TYPEWRITER,
AND SENTENCED.
Other Court Cases.-Extrd Dolce
men put On.-The Telles Case
Warrants Arrested.

The jury In the district court re.
turned = verdict yesterday in the John
White case, finding him guilty of dis
posing of q stolen typewriter valued a,
eco and fixing his penalty at two years
In the penitentisry.
White is one OF the men accused oil
being implicated in the theft of a
typewriter from night Manager Kirk,
of the Western Union.
| For defense White s~ore that he
had nothing to do with the theft. but
said machine was brought to him by
Boersch Who told him to sell it
| White disposed of the typewriter for
$40 to an FL Paso street second hand
man and 1t was after~srds identified
ard recovered by Mr.. Kirk.
White is the same man who stole
Attorney D. Storms saddle some
months ego and was tracked to Juare z
By Detective Harold. The fugitive
was arrested there for bringing stolen
property into that country and served
several months in Jail. White then
went under the name of Fitzpatrick.
When run down In Jusrez by Harold
he WAS trolling along the road, going
south, with the saddle on his back
he dropped the saddle and showed
fight.
White Is an eide ly man with a
luxuriant growth OF whiskers to possess
which would make q populist Wild with
Joy. His chief trouble seems to be
Intimacy with John Bsrleycorn.
CHINESE CASES
United States Commissioner Howe
WAS busy this morning taking evidence
10 Chinese case. he spent yesterday
afternoon taking evidence In two such
cases.
NEW TRIAL ASKED.
Motion for q new trial of the Telles
perjury case hsa been entered ard II
that lie overruled an appeal will be
taken.
The womac takes her sentence with
. cell at the county, Jail awaiting final
results.
SUIT FOR DIVORCE.
Suit for divorce from her husband
J. w. Byrnes has been fled In the
district court by Mrs. NJ. A. Byrnes.
Petitioner alleges that her husband
deserted her without just cause, after
six years Of welded life. They were
MARI ed abe Gays at LoRansport, India
ma, IN 1890 and her spouse left her in
1896 and since then they have lived
apart.
YOUNG MEN PUT TO WORK
Three young men were arrested last
night on the streets and charged with
vagraucy aud this morning we're fined
S3 each and put to work on the streets.
ALICE AGAIN
said that she was trying to run the
saloon and when the officer went into
arrest her she resisted him and show
ed wonderful strength and il was only
Alice Connolly was arrested yester-
day evening about 5 O'Clock by Of
ficer George Harold in the Legal Ten
der saloon and placed in Jail charged
with being drunk and disorderly 1t is
after hard tussle that he landed
her behind the bars, after disgusting
street exhibition.
EXTRA MEN
Chief of police Lockhart put several
extra policemen on the force this
morning to look after the srafters who
have drifted in with the circus.
LITTLE SCRAP
There was a little excitement on the
corner of San Antonio and Oregon
streets this afternoon at O'Clock
when IA man about forty years of age
jumped onto boy about eighteen and
tried to get him to give him some
money. claiming that he had moved out
of his room without paying the rent
The boy said that he did not have
any money. The man began to abuse
him and the boy walked off The old
man started to follow him up but stop
ped when the boy warned him. -
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