The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-07-17
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Special to The Daily Record
Carlsbad, N. M, July 16.-At 2:30
O'Clock today $793.90 and a tab for
81 of the $1,000 that was stolen from
the safe in the saloon of Sol Schoo1-
over Sunday morning, June Both, was
found buried about three feet below
the crest of the bank of the Pecos
river, near the p. v. & N. E. depot.
The money was most all in silver dol
lars and was in sacks under about
two inches of sand, in a little hole
scooped out by the hands of the thief.
The money was located through in
formation furnished by NJ. M. Hum
phries, alias Kid Rice, a local detec-
tive of Hereford, Texas, who has been
here working on the case iadepend-
entity.
AS soon as the money was located,
Deputy Sheriff w. p. Lucas and ]. n.
Hewett arrested Joe Mathews, the ne
gro night porter, who was employed
at the saloon at the time of the rob-
berry and was later discharged by
Schoonover- After being placed in
Jail the negro confessed and said he
stole the money, and gave the name
of young white man who he claim
ed instigated the crime and entered
the saloon and took the money from
the safe and turned it over to him il
the alley. This man left Carlsbad on
the morning train and the officers de-
eli 70 al hn no
been arrested. He was a man thor
oughly familiar with the premises
and knew the combination of the safe.
The negro says ne carried the money
to the river in bucket and that the
hole was dug by the white man with
his hands, and he hurriedly emptied
the. money into it and had not been
near the scene since for fear of be-
ing detected He claims that the white
man promised him $5O0.00 for his
part of the job, but so far he had not
received a cent. Five hundred dollars
of the money is still unaccounted for
Eleven hundred dollars of the money
belonged to ]. N. Hewett, who col-
Quoted the gambling in the saloon,
and $40 was saloon sales that belong
ed to Schoonover, the owner of the
bar
the officers and many citizens were
of the opinion that the safe was ri
fed by Schoonover, the owner of the
bar, but the developments so far COM
pletely exonerate him. Schoonover
has been a gambler and saloon man
all of his life, and boasts of the fact
that he is generally known here as
THE Old Wolf" For a long time he
had a picture of wolf painted on the
door of ais saloon, with the sign,
''The Old VOLTS Place" He often
boasted of "skinning' in gambling
games, aad this led to his being sus-
pected as to the robbery. He is nat
nral born gambler, and was in Fort
Worth, Texas, recently wnen William
Thompson, a gambler, shot and killed
District Attorney Jefferson McClane
and Deputy Sheriff Hamin Scott.
Thompson was also mortally wound
ed in the conflict, and while he was
0glnS IN l4S uOSpildi OI lu0 COuuly
jail Scaoonover was his constant
companion, and was about the only
man who took his part.
The fact that Schoonover was sus-
pected, and the fact that he knew 1t,
caused him to be very active in run
ming down clues. and he has been tire
less in his efforts to locate the guilty
and exonerate himself
The man that the negro says insti-
gated the crime and took the money
from the safe Is the man Scnooaover
charged with committing the robbery
the day II was discovered Schoono-
yer told Hewett, the owner of the
gambling. OF his suspicion the same
day, and Hewett armed himself and
got the young man i'm a buggy the
same afternoon and drove him out OF
the towns limit and threatened TO
kin him II he did not give up the
money. The young man vehemently
protested his inn0cence. and Hewett
concluded that ne was the wrong
man He returned to town with aim
and told schoono1er that ne believed
he was On the wrong trail At the