Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-04
BLACK AND WHITE.
White Wife and her CoIored
Lover Captured in Denve,.
THEY HAILED FROM GALLUP.

Revising marriage certificates to
suit is the specially of a runaway white
woman. the wife of a citizen of Gallup,
N. NJ, who eloped with a negro calling
himself W. s.. Oficer and came to Dem
yer W months ago. The pair was ar
rested. in a cheap lodging house. by
Policemen Morley and Berger. on sus-
picion OF larceny. The woman was
sentenced to pay $40 and costs, and
$40 n costs was assessed In the
mans case, with orders to leave town
at the expiration of their terms.
Back OF the arrest. which would or.
dinarily Je the result OF a o extra
ordinary case Of depravity. is the story
of a doctors prescribing that broke up
his own home. The doctor, whose pict-
ure the police found in ais wife's trunk.
treasured. perhaps. by her simply be-
cause there is a picture of herself on
the same card. is as yet unknown by
name to the police.
June Is, 1899. Hortense McConne..
was married to a well-to-do physician
of Gallup. She was then %, and tne
doctor. according to his picture. was
nearly twenty years her senior. A
year later a baby boy was born to the
couple. The wife's W. from her
illness vas slow and in her sufferings
the husband frequently gave her co
caine from his medicine case. His mis-
take became apparent when he made
the startling discovery that she was
experimenting his doses with more of
the drug. purchased by herself. and
that she had become a slave to the
habit.
The end was what he might have
expected. When he tried to break her
of the habit somebody else furnished
cocaine for her use. and the one who
did it is believed to be the negro with
who'll she eloped. leaving husband and
year-old baby without even a farewell
note, last June. The doctor made no
effort to find her.
About two months ago the
wife and the negro came to Denver
and rented a room in the New York
lodging house. at Eighteenth and Lari-
streets. n place occupied almost
entirely by negroes. They posed as
"a and wife and the negroes who
were their neighbors could not dispute
their claims. even IL they had been so
inclined; more than once. when people
asked about their marriage. they pro
duced a certificate that satisfied in
quiries.
WERE HUNTING CAPE.
A few days ago a monkey-fur cape
was stolen. and the theft was traced
by Policemen Morley and Berger to the
house district and finally to
the New York. Suspicion fastened on
the negro with the white wife. and the
pair were arrested, together with Fred
Williams, a white man, who was found
in their room. Morley and Berger |
made a better catch than IL first
seemed, for they found all three pris-
oners were cocaine fends, that the
and the woman were probably
with one or more crooks, |
and they uncovered the elopement end
Of the case.
The certificate was found in a valise |
the couples trinkets. IL did
not appear quite so genuine to the
police as to the negroes in the lodging
house. though il set forth that "Whor-
Mcconnell and w. S. Officer
were married. June Is. 1901, by JUS
tice Of the Peace John X. Brown. at
N. NJ, and the name. William
appeared as witness. But
when the document was held so that
the light shone through it. II was EVIL
dent that the initial -" of a mans
name had been erased when the name
was scratched OFF and Officers substi-
tuted. Officers name began a little to
the right of where the -" had been. |
the outline of the letter was still
when closely examined. Then
there was no doubt that the date had
also been set ahead two years. for, in
the light. the figures "99" could be
though covered by the "01."
The woman only sneered when the
police confronted her with this evil
and told them II they knew SO
much they would better find out some
thing more. They replied by appro-
priating. through the medium of hav-
ing the pair sentenced for vagrancy.
what they believe will be sufficient in
to comply with the woman's flip
Williams got a similar SEN
.ence, hut he is looked upon as simply
an unfortunate coke fiend," more dan
serous to himself than anybody else.