El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-27

still haze to break his engagement for
a while as the team starts on the road
in April and his case will come up
here during that month and he would
have to return here then.
Ben Williams Arrested Two Suspects.
Ben Williams. special detective for
the Santa Fe railroad, arrested two
more suspects this morning and lodged
them in the city jail.
He found the men in the plaza and
called up the police station and Officer
Gilmore went to his assistance. The
men were taken to the city jail where
they gave their names as w. Il. De-
laney and Burt Owen. Owen had le.-
tiers in his pocket addressed to Palmer
and Delaney had a discharged soldiers
papers with the name Of Homer Alien
on them. Both men had pistols and
other things that made their case a
bad one.
Mr.. Williams says he does not know
where the men are wanted, but they
are wanted here on the charge of car
ryipg weapons They will not have
examining trials until tomorrow
Aired i'll Court.
The Coons-McKelligon assault case
came up for a hearing in Justice Ellis
court at 10 O'Clock today. jury was
impaneled to hear the story of the fight
between the collector and the attorney
and adjudge as to the guilt or limo
cence of the assault of Maurice Nc
Religion.
Owing to the unusual publicity given
the case by the press the trial attracted
more than a passing interest and a
good sized crowd had assembled when
the first witness, COons, took the
stand.
The witness formerly studied law
and stated his case like an attorney
explaining the allegations of an in
dictment to the jury. His language
was well chosen and it was soon evil
dent to the attorneys that his COM
mand of English was good.
Rich Burgess, counsel for the defen-
6ant, gave the prosecuting witness
plenty of rope and permitted him to
tell all about the incidents leading up
to the fight. The cross examination
was also quite brief.
When asked to state if in his opin-
ion as a lawyer it was customary or
courtesy for a client to place his case
in tn ehands of an attorney and then
go and consult another without noti-
flying his attorney, witness said: THE
hypothesis, your honor is not parallel"
The jury did not understand what that
meant but the court did and the plain
tiff's attorney demanded a direct an
Swer and not an argument from the
witness and finally got it.
The prosecuting witness and the de-
PENDANT told stories almost similar to
their statements as published in The
Herald the day the fight occurred.
At the conclusion of the argument
the jury ordered the defendant dis
Absolutely Cleared.
Louis I. Dreeben. merchant tailor
Of Silver City, came in from Dallas
last night where he was taken by a
deputy United States marshal two
weeks ago on the charge of fraud in the
of his bankrupt case in the
federal court at Dallas.
He came back here a free man. hav-
ing been cleared before jury there
last week.
He was accused of shipping goods
from his store in Mckinney to his
brother in eastern Texas and then tax
ing the bankrupt oath.
The jury cleared him of the charge
after being out only a few minutes.
In Pursuit of the Robbers.
Special Detective Long of the G. H.
& S. A. railroad went out this morn
ing in company with George Harold of
the police force and is searching the
woods east of town for the train rob-
bers, who have been breaking open box
cars for several weeks. vs
A Mexican came in from that direc-
ton yesterday afternoon and said he
saw the men with a wagon full of
O0ndc DRIVING he
they could not have gone very far.
Two more determined men never
went after a criminal than the two
detectives now on their trails and they
are expected to report a capture this
afternoon.
1t is believed that the thieves have
crossed into Mexico and in that case
all the officers can do is to locate them