El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-30
News Of
the Courts
The Lagerfelt Suit OF Trial.

The Lagerfelt Suit OF Trial
The Lagerfelt suit against the Ell
Paso Light company for $4,000 dam
ages is now on before Judge Goggin
and was called as soon as the jury in
the Maxwell case had rendered its YER
dict.
| 1t required only a short time to Sc
cure a jury and before nightfall the
taking of the evidence was commenced.
Prof Lagerfelt bases his claim on
the fact that his children received
terrible shock of electricity from live
wire that was dangling near the ground
on San Antonio street near the resi-
dence of Major Fewel.
The two children out of mere curl
osity took hold of the wore and both
| wer rendered temporarily llfeless.
The little girl, aged nine, was so
overcome by the powerful curren that
she could not let go of the wire. Al
ter becoming unconscious her hands
| still tightly grasped and she was not
released from her perilous position I'M
| til Majof Fewel with rare presence OF
| mind seized a stick and knocked away
| the live wir She and the boy were
| then rescued but it was only by ne
roic measures that they were saved:
Bob were badly burned and were i'll
for some time.
| The defendant. it is understood. will
claim that the wire was an old one
not in use and was detached. Because
of that it will contend that 1T was
not responsible for the accident.
Supposed Stolen Property.
Frank Harrison. the colored social
lion. whose fall which created such
Juror in colored social circles. was
chronicled in yesterdays Herald, was
bound over to the grand jury in the
sum of $500.
Harrison had considerable property
of a suspicious nature in his apart
ments when arrested. Two grips were
found and it was proved that one OF
them had been stolent from guest
at the Plaza hotel. The other grip
contained an assortment of cheap Jew
elry. such as rings and pendants, and
also a silver mounted comb, silver
mounted hat brush and other articles
that belonged to gentlemans toilet
taoble and might have been stolen.
These articles are in possession of
Captain Tom Bendy and if any one
has been robbed Of them he would like
to have the owner call to prosecute the
thief and get his property
Settled Out of Court.
The suit of w. Y. Wolf against the
A. T. & s. F. railway for damages was
settled out of court yesterday by the
payment of about 81 900 to the plain
tiff
The litigation resulted from the
loss of n large quantity of merchan-
disc shipped by Wolf from Ell Paso to
Silver City when he removed TO the
latter place in 1899. Tie conSignee
never heard of his goods again after
seeing them loaded in freight cars
here and it is the supposition that the
cars were robbed. He instituted suit
to recover the amount of damages Sus-
tanned from the loss and in due time
the railway company decided that his
claim was just and made proposition
to settle which was accepted.
Chinaman VS.. Negroes.
A disturbance was created on Utah
street last night by a Chinaman and
two negroes The celestial claimed
that he was assailed by the blacks, who
were bent on robbing him of his hard
earnings at one of tie faro tables. He
saws they both laid for him in dark
place and assaulted him but he beat
them off before they had accomplished
their purpose.
He attracted considerable attention
by his cries for assistance and it is
said that his aSsailants were brighten
ed away by this means.
Suit for Children.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Bryant went to
Ysleta today to bring two children to
town who are the objects of dispute
between a man and his wife and of
habeas corpus suit instituted in the
district court
The father alleges that the mother
is not the proper person to bring up
the offspring and wants possession OF
the mhimSelf.
This afternoon at $50 o'clock Judge
Walthall was engaged in hearing the
habeas corpus proceedings instituted
by David Jaques for the recovery of
his two children who had been brought
nito court by Ed Bryant.
Bunch of Migrants.
Nine Migrants were before the re-
corder to have justice mted out to them
this morning. AS most of them had
money on their persons and were ar
rested by the railway watchmen be-
cause they had beaten their way into
town on freight trains, the whole
bunch was discharged with the warn
ing to KEEP out of trouble and get out
of town as quickly as possible.
Examining Trial.
The examining trial of Sam Apa-
daca. the alleged accOmplice in the
chicken theft case is to be held today
before Justice Ellis. Sam is unfortun-
ate in that he comes of family a
member of which died in the peniten-
tiary. His grandfather was sent up
from this county for a long term for