El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-29

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to furnish a certain amount of maudlin
amusement for the court hangerson-
No. 365-AIigueI Marcos" calls the
| recorder. looking at his record book
Miguel is charged with being drunk
and fighting. His arrest was made
by officer Murray. He pleads guilty
" 18th an alacrity that is surprising and
So is the fine he draws
The Vagrancy Charge.
Joseph Peel, charged with vagrancy,
| a case carried over from the morning
session, is next called, and Joseph ap-
pears with several witnesses TO prove
| that he is not guilty These witnesses
tell of knowing the defendant, of his
work how he ran a little saloon on Ell
Paso street and had gone broke. This
is reiterated by the defendant himself,
who has obtained clean shave since
his first appearance in court room
ing house keeper testifies that Peel
owed her SO room rent He is tod
10 rustic the money for the room rent
and he will be discharged Joe begins
rustling Immediately by getting out OF
court as fast as possible.
Case 362, that of a peg legged negro,
and of Henry O'Neil. another east Tex
as negro, is called. The two negroes
tell the court that they are members
of the Aztec club, a negro organiza-
ton. The recorder thereupon informs
that the Aztec club has lost two good
members, and each Is given a fine of
$50, which means rock pile session.
Pete Celebrates.
Case 35s, which was that of Pedro
Borreyo, is called, and Pete gets
chance TO tell the court how he hap
pened TO be drinking. He was cele-
brating the opening of a new saloon.
His celebration cost him 81.
Two white women, a Canadian and
negro, are next herded and sworn.
1t was one Of those ghmpses Of de-
pravity as it exists on the south side.
The white man was given a severe lee
ture by the judge. What do you sup
pose your white haired old father up
there in Canada would say if he knew
this?" the recorder asked. L know
it is wrong, judge" the Canadian re-
piled. a faint hope that he would be
let off easy because of his father aris
ing in his mind. Nothing doing in the
hope business Each of the men draws
SIS as his fine and the women SO.
They were all herded into the dock
and the mill continued the grind.
Underworld Curtain Rises.
Again the curtain of the underworld
is drawn aside and a distressing story
of a woman's depravity is revealed. She
was a dope fiend who had been cured
by the county jail treatment of being
locked up until she was broken of the
habit. She sw ore that she had not been
using it, although her pasty face de-
MED the assertion. The complaining
witness was a negro, black, worth
less negro, wearing a castoff Pullman
cap, a ragged suit and part of No
IL shoes. A quarrel which implicated
the white woman and the negro was
aired. The plaintiff is allowed to go
without fine and the negro is told
to get out of the courtroom or he
would draw a fine
A domestic difficulty south of the
color line is called. Joe Meyers had
put a mourning badge on his wife's
right eye that was a beauty, to say the
least. An eye like that was adjusted
at SIS by the recorder and Joe went
back into the pen.
Jack Doe, who was not Jack Doe at
all, was fined 81 for striking a negro
porter on the anatomy somewhere in
one Of the dry goods stores
Joe RabeI, a South FL Paso street
merchant, drew a fine of So for block
ing the sidewalk with his boxes.
The Finale.
Then came the Serio-cOmic finale of
the session. Barely showing above the
prisoners rail was a l1inky haired lit
tie pickannlny- without waiting until
his case was called. he slipped out OF
the dock and with eyes shiny with
tears, poured out his heart to judge
Lea. He had run away before, the
Judge had told him where he was going
to send him if he didn't behave. but he
had gone TO the 10 cent theater. He
had got sick and the big policeman
had got him. Comically pathetic the
little burr head told his story with all
the sorrow of the ages in his plaintive
voice as he pleaded his case He was
allowed to go.
This was one afternoons session,
typical hour in the police court