El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-29

| The defendant afterwards consulted
Attorney NJ. w. Stanton and employed
| him 20 defend her. The prosecution
will be conducted by county attorney
A. S. ]. Eylar.
| The penalty for kidnapping in this
state is severe. IF the person kid
Mapped" says the statute. "be under the
age of fifteen it is not necessary that
there should be force used in order
to constitute an offense of this kind. 81"
| The penalty is a fine not exceeding
$4,000 or imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for not less than two nor more
| than five years.
| Abduction is very similar to kidnap-
ing. but applies only to women who
are carried off for the purpose of mar
rage or prostitution.
IF a female under the age of four
teen" says the statute. be taken from
her parent guardian or legal custo-
dian it is abduction whether she con-
sent or not" Abduction is punishable
by q fine of not more than $4,000 and
if the abducted person becomes mar
ried as the result of the offense her
abductor is punished by a term of
Imprisonment of from 2 to 5 years.
If the female abducted. be wrong
fully used the guilty person may be
varying from 3 to 20 years.
BoLD THEFT
About as bold a piece of theft as has
been reported to the police for a long
time was reported Saturday afternoon
when man informed a. p. Coles. the
real estate man. that there was a man
in one of his vacant houses on the
corner of Boulevard and Santa Fee
streets stealing the pipes and gas fix
lures.
Mr.. Coles at once notified the police
and they responded quickly but the
man had gone and taken lot of his
plumber with him. He was described
as being tall and wearing a light
mustache. He wore overalls and the
neighbors thought that he was plum
Der sent up to do some work.
He had cut the walls Shamefully so
as to get the pipes that were under
the plastering. There is no clue as to
who he was. other than the description
given. and the police have slight hopes
of catching him although they are
working on the case.
HAS LOST HIS SISTER.
Just after court adjourned this morn
ing a young man came up to the police
station and asked that the police help
him find his sister He said that his
home was in Sherman. He has not
seen his sister for four years but he
saw his father in Dallas last week
and he told him that his sister was
out here. that she was married. but he
did not know wnom she had married
Her maiden name was Emma Lyons
and her brother will remain here for
some time in the hopes in seeing her.
JUAN BERNAL ON TRIAL
Juan Bernal. under Indictment for
the murder of State Ranger Fusselman
ten years ago, was placed on trial for
his life in the district court this morn
ing.
Bernal. it is alleged. belonged to the
gang of cattle thieves and murderers
OF which Geronimo PARA was the lead
err and which ambushed George Harold
and Ranger FuSselman in the passes
of Mount Franklin and shot FuSSelman
to death.
PARA was captured nearly ten years
after Fusselman was killed and after
trial for murder and conviction in this
city was hanged last January. after
making one of the most daring and
desperate attempts to murder his exc
cutioners on record in the criminal an
nails of the southwest.
Juan Bernal Parra's alleged COM
padre of the days when cattle thieves
and murdererS were plentiful in this
section was found many months ago in
the Santa Fe penitentiary serving out
a short sentence for an offense COM
mitted near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
At the expiration of his term he was
delivered to Captain ]. r. Hughes, of
the Texas rangers. and brought to Ell
Paso to be tried for murder
The prisoner is Mexican possessing
more than the average of Intelligence,
but whether or not he possesses the
reckless and dare devil courage of his
leader who was hanged. is not known.
He dresses well and is man of COM
paratively good appearance.
The case was called as soon as court
opened this morning. Bernal has re-
tanned Attorney Burns to defend him
and will make every effort to clear
himself of the charge against him.
The chief witness against him, as
against PARA, is George Harold, who
was with Fusselman, when the murder