The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-02-13
SENT
HIM TO JAIL
N. c. Joiner Had a Fair Friend
al Police Court and Is
New al Liberty,
(From Mondays DaIlyl

stay In there all last night"
Thus did a very unusual type OF
visitor at the police court and in this
case a very interested visitor, eK-
press herself OF the cruel fate that
consigned NJ. G. Joiner TO the COM
mon lookup yesterday and forced him
to spend the night there with the
Sunday roundup OF plain DRINKS and
miscellaneous offenders, This visit
or was a good looking woman OF
thirty years, less or more, in blue
hat, with long blue feathers and a
blue veil OF the same color, draped
back from a plump and comedy face.
She wore a well fitted tan covert coat
and skirt and gloves matched the
shade OF her hat. She was not Mrs,
Joiner and just why she was present
on the scene Is part OF at least two
other stories which might some time
DO told in other courts, This visit
or was an interested onlooker while
the court acted on tho cases OF the
various offenders brought up from
the lookup this morning.
They Paid the Fine.
Joiner, a big, we'll built follow,
with a lean dark face, promptly plead
not guilty to the charge OF disturb
ing tho peace, which was the first
case called in court this morning,
and offered to fight the case. SO the
court passed the case and had the
Chief Snider and Assistant Chief Err
nest Hughes sent out for witnesses
so that complete trial could be
eutara' with after the other cases
we've disposed OF. But after Joiner
had hvG several conferences with the
city attorney sud the woman In the
blue hat had talke9 over the sltua-
ton with the officers, he concluded
to plead guilty to the charge, so the
witnesses who had been called were
not brought into the case. with the
assistance OF the visitor, Joiner paid
his fine and left the building.
Joiner Is a conductor on the Pc
cos Valley and his family lives on
Pierce street here. But for some time
as the developments yesterday show
ed, his family life here has not been
regular and peaceful, for reasons
which tho woman in the blue hat
partly explained to the officers, She
stated that she and Joiner had been
frieSds for years and that she knew
his parents in Kansas City, Kan,
and that they understood the situa-
ton entirely. She lives at Canyon
City and has been in the employ OF
the Santa Fe herself. When she
gets a divorce .from the husband she
has back east somewhere and Joiner
can be free in the same way, It is
probable, according 20 her state
ment this morning, that she will
become Mrs. Joiner.
Seven Other Victims.
This was the first time that Will
liam McBriar was ever in this town,
so he told Recorder Parks this morn
ing, but he had unfortunately drunk
very deeply Saturday and according
" plead guilty. c. d. McKown was
also a newcomer and had made the
fatal mistake of trying to buy whis-
key on Sunday. AS Uhis itself was
not punishable by the city court, the
case against McKown was dismissed.
John Malon, who got out OF county
jail a weeks ago, had been working
on the railroad but came to town
with sore jaw Saturday and while
putting in his time here got into a
condition which gave him a So and
cost fine this morning, Andrew Ri
ley had been working at the gravel
pit north of town and came to town
Saturday to buy some new clothes.
He had failed to purchase clothes
hut had made investments in other
goods to such an extent that he had
to plead guilty to the charge Of be-
ing drunk. Pete Roderlck, another
railroad man, plead guilty to the
same kind of weakness and got the
minimum fine. Jim Logan had not
| been drinking, he said, for over a
month, but he met few friends with
bottle yesterday and as a result
he was obliged to ask the leniency
OF the court this morning. He got
$11.70, John Anderson, little man
with so much of the old country left
in him that he could not understand
the court had begun to inflict lit
tie chastisement on his wife at 500
Lincoln yesterday when the neigh
bors interferred. When this fact de-
veloped this morning he was turned
over to the county authorities who
| will try him for aggravated 4ssault