Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-28
ACCUMULATION Of TROUBLE.
Morsen ". Jurssns Worked Up Much
Trouble for Himself.
FACTS FROM DENVER,

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 is
now wearing the stripes at that insti.
tuition. Jurrens came to this city from
Denver. AMI the Republican, in COM
menting on his sentence. says:
Moreen w. Jurrens. who was about
Denver for a couple of years, was yes
terday sentenced at Albuquerque by a
United States judge to serve two years
in the New Mexico ~penitentiary. AS he
is also sentenced to 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 n long
freedom. An indictment was returned
in Pueblo last week against him on
tn charge of using the United States
mails to defraud. The fraud he at
tempted was on his wife's father.
Jurrens met Miss Clara West in this
city something like two years ago, and
they we're married shortly afterward.
She was the daughter of a wellto-do
couple in Soldier, Kas, and had come
to Denver on a visit to friends. Soon
after their wedding she discovered
that her husband was not the most in
d%ustrious man in the world, nor the
best provider. In relating her story
TO the p~ostoffice 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 wife's father in
Kansas asking for $3.50 at once. He
had found. he wrote. an undoubted
bargain in a house and lot. If he could
set the money in Denver by the follow.
ing Monday he could secure the bar
gain: otherwise he would lose 1t. He
asked Mr.. 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 a wrong If he did
not respond. He therefore had the
draft made payable to Moreen w. and
Clara A. Jurrens, and sent it in a letter
to Mrs. Jurrens. When the young
m 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 u%pbraided him for applying to the
old gentleman for funds. closing her
lecture with the information that she
would at once telegraph him not tC
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 it and replaced
it in the office to be delivered to her.
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 An indictment was, there,
fore. brought against him under the
Edmunds law, which had been con.
structed to 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
tiary in New Mexico is to be arrested