Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-30
MEXICAN FALLS
TO HIS DEATH
FATAL END OF CH0L0 DANCE
AT PASADENA
Officer Shoots at Escaping Burglar
Business for the Police Court
Tonnorrow-Other News
In Brief
Pasadena Agency,
LA East Colorado Street.

PASADENA, Oct. 29.-Jose Poyerna,
a Mexican foreman on an Alhambfa
bean ranch. fell from the third story of
the Kenney-Kendall block at 2:3O
o'clock this morning and was instantly
killed. The accident was one of the
features of the Cholo dance going on III
the hall, but it did not in any way mar
the evenings enjoyment. The crowd
continued their dancing until this
morning. trips to the undertaking
rooms of Reynolds & Van Nuys to look
upon the face of their former compan-
ion serving to vary the exercises OIL the
night Poyerna and his wife were the
only ones absent from the dance during
the rest of the night.
Coroner Trout was summoned ana
held an inquest this afternoon, the re-
sulting verdict showing that the death
was purely accidental. From the evil
dence of some of the dancers 1t ap-
pears that Poyerna had been drinking
and was a little unsteady when he went
into the little locker room adjoining
the dance hall. Here he was alone for
a time, and apparently seated himself
upon the window sill facing upon the
little cenent-paved alley thirty feet
below.
After a while two or three Mexicans
went downstairs and into this alley,
confessedly to take a pull at the con-
tents of little black bottle one OF
them carried in his pocket. A half
dozen PAGES from the corner they
stumbled upon a body, and on investi-
eating found it to be Poyerna.
He was dead, his neck broken
and his skull fractured. No one
could be found who remembered haV-
ing seen him come out of the little
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signs of quarreling to indicate that he
had been pushed or thrown from the
window. The officers were imme-
diately informed and the body re-
moved. The bereaved wife hurried.
dazed, to her home on Ohio street. near
Marengo avenue, where her four chill
dren awaited the return of their par
ents. Then the dance went on.
Shoots at Burglar
At 3 o'clock this morning telephone
message from Mrs. Flora Mcclellan, at
4S1 Eldorado street, informed the night
officer at the police station that there
had been an attempted burglary there.
Patrolman Reece, whose beat is in that
vicinity, was at once communicated
with and fastened to the house.
On South Raymond avenue he
met man on a bicycle coming
from the direction of the Eldorado
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stop. which he obligingly did, and
seemed to be awaiting the arrival of
the officer. Suddenly he dropped the
wheel with clatter and broke for the
weeds in the shadow of the cycle way
a little distance away. The officer fol-
lowed and fired three pistol shots after
his man, only serving to add speed to
the flight 1t was dark and the man
had a good lead and soon disappeared.
It developed that the man had broken
into the Eldorado house, ransacked the
lower floor, but without getting much
plunder Then, being interrupted, he
had rushed from the house, leaped on
a bicycle belonging to the owner of the
house, and sped away. BY the merest
chance he ran into officer Reece, and
though he escaped he left the stolen
wheel behind.
When Police Judge j. Perry Wood
calls for order in his court tomorrow
seven shamefaced men will confront
him in the prisoners dock charged with