Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-02
ACCUMULATION Or TROUBLE.

Moreen w. Jurrens. on conviction Of
violation OF the Edmunds law will
serve out sentence OF two years In the
penitentiary at Santa Fe, and he IL
nov wearing the stripes at that lnsti.
Denver. and the Republican. In com.
menting on his sentence, says:
Moreen w Jurrens. who was about
Denver for couple ~ years. was yes.
terday sentenced at Albuquerque by a
United States Judge 20 serve two years
in the New Mexico penitentiary. As he
lie also sentenced 10 pay the costs OF
the prosecution. he will be called upon
to serve an additional month when
he may obtain a temporary release by
taking the poor debtors oath. Even
then he Is not likely to enjoy any long
freedom An indictment was returned
In Pueblo last week against him on
the charge of using the United States
mails to defraud. The fraud he az.
tempted was on his wife's father
/ Jurrens met Miss Clara West in this
city something like two years ago, and
they were married shortly afterward
She was the daughter OF a well-todo
couple in Soldier, Kas.. and had come
to Denver on visit TO friends Soon
after their wedding she discovered
! that her husband was not the most in
dustrious man in the world. nor the
! best provider. In relating her story
to the postoffice authorities she said
that she had determined upon leaving
! him, but had been dissuaded by his
mother. who wished her to try to re.
form him On the 18th OF last January
Jurrens wrote to his wifes father in
Kansas asking for $3.50 at once He
had found. he wrote an undoubtes
bargain In house and lot. II he could
get the money in Denver by the follow.
ing Monday he could secure the bar.
gain: otherwise he would lose IL. He
asked MIR. West to make the draft out
in his name and to mail it to him at
the general delivery In Denver The
old gentleman did not like the word.
ing OF the letter, but feared he might
do the young people wrong II he did
not respond. He therefore had the
draft made payable to Moreen W. and
Clara A. Jurrens. and sent II in letter
TO Mrs. Jurrens. When the young
woman received the letter there was
no draft in It, and the reading was that
Mr. West would send the draft, not
that the draft was enclosed.
Mrs Jurrens went to her husband
and upbraided him for applying to the
old gentleman for funds, closing her
lecture with the information that she
would at once telegraph him not TO
send the money. She did not knowing
that the draft was in the hands OF the
deceiving young hubby. The next day
he cashed the draft at the First Ma
tional bank and left Denver for Albu.
querque Then the wife says that she
discovered that he had called at the
general delivery, received her letter
taken the draft from II and replaced
II in the office to be delivered to her.
When she learned this she asked the
postoffice authorities to arrest Jur.
rens. The recreant husband was dis
covered in Albuquerque in March.
He was then living with an Eva Cox
as man and wife. When Jurrens was
arrested he admitted to living with the
Cox woman. An indictment was. there
fore. brought against him under the
Edmunds law, which had been con-
structed 10 operate against the Nor.
mon polygamists in Utah, but was held
to cover similar cases in all the terri.
. tories.
Jurrens has been sentenced for the
violation of the Edmunds act, and
when he energies from the peniten.
tlary in New Mexico is TO be arrested
under the indictment for using the
mails to defraud.