El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-14
CHARLES LOOK IS
ARRESTED AND
RELEASED
Hearing in Police Court De
velops that He Came Here
as Strikebreaker.
EXPLAINS HIS
SUSPICIOUS ACTS

/ shops two months, meanwhile living in
/ bunk cars in the railroad yards; has
/ been idle since December 20, ana
Z prowled and loite-ed at night around
( buildings in Pioneer plaza while wait
/ ing for money from home. He says he
/ was beaten In December in front Of
Z the Coney Island saloon by three men
/ whom he believes to be striking rail-
! way shOpmen, and that e month ago
I he was drugged and beaten in Juarez
! and robbed OF all his money.
Inquiry Sought.
Look was first arrested at 4 o'clock
] on the morning Of January "A al the
new Plaza block, after he had been OBJ
/ served for several nights around the
1 Mills building, Plaza block. and Herald
/ building, between the hours of 1 and
I a. M, acting in a suspicious manner.
/ The object OF asking the mans arrest
4 was with a view to questioning him as
| to certain yet unexplained suspicious
I movements Of various unidentified per-
/ sons about these buildings night after
| night, between the hours OF l and a.
| m, over a period Of almost two weeks
] prior to his arrest. The police Judge
/ released Look without a trial, though
l four night watchmen Of the plaza
! buildings were ready to testify. The
! chief Of police had been requested to
I question the man privately with & view
/ to eliClting any Information II he
/ should have any to give; he was aston
/ ished to find, on making inquiry, that
! Look had been released, but the police
7 judge declares that so far as he then
knew, IL was only an ordinary routine
I vagrancy case and he satisfied himself
at the time that the man had straight
story. At any rate, q warrant was
sworn out for Look on January 25, and
the whole police and detective depart
men was instructed By the chief TO see
1 that the warrant was served, but only
Monday, February II, almost three
weeks later was an arrest made, this
time upon information phoned to the
police department By a citizen.
Looks Own Story.
At the time Of the first arrest, the
morning paper declared that Look was
"a German Of long residence in FL
Paso." The chief Of police, after Look
had been released the first time, said
that Look was we'll known to the pO-
lice. On the witness stand Tuesday in
police court Look told his own story
as follows
Il came here in October last from
Pittsburg, where lived six months. I
have two children, a boy and a girl,
now in Indiana was born in Ger
many, but have lived 50 years in the
United States, % Of which were spent
in Baltimore I left Ptttsburg headed
west, but not for any particular point
They shipped me down here. I left
Pittsburg about October II and arrived
here four or five days after. I have
been here since then. ! went to work
at once at the G. H & S a shops as q
machfnist This is my trade I worked
in Pittsburg as a machinist. Ny pay
here was 46c per hour worked
three months.
Dragged and Flat Broke.
Il drew my money January 10 and
went over to JuRrez. I had already
bought ticket to Tucson intending
to leave In Juarez I took one drink
and they drugged me I was lying in
the street when 1 walked up. They had
taken all my money, about $50, and
thought then that they had taken my
ticket, too. but q week after the ticket
expired found il in a pocket and had
1t redeemed Il expected TO 60 to Los
Angeles where / had worked before.
After I had been robbed in Juarez I
came back to FL Paso and pawned a
watch and wrote home and to my bank
for money 1 had not one cent
would not beg, so l sat around the
pool halls till they closed and then
L walked the streets. Three or four
nights 1 went TO stay around the fire
at the Plaza block in the early morn
ing This was before I found my ticket
81 don't remember being around the
alley between the Plaza block ana
the Mills building or near The Herald
building The reason ] went down into
the basement area of the St Regis
hotel was because thought there was
a closet down there 1 got $3.50 for
my ticket about two weeks and half
ago 1 got money from home and re-
deemed my, watch am 81 years old
and have always worked A Pittsburg
agent sent me here to go TO work
went TO work October IS. I quit De-
cember 20
Beat Up In Ell PasO.
Il didn't quit, I was sick. Somebody
beat me up. I was in the Coney Is
land saloon one night about II OF 1880
On coming out of the door, and near
the corner OF the saloon in tae little
street between there and the sheldon
l was jumped on by three men. who
beat me up. j had had only two glasses
Of beer, and was alone I think it
was some OF the striking railroad shop
men that beat me up. There were three
Of them ran away.
Il never made any complaint and
there were no arrests
I went to the Green Tree hotel and
stayed there a week and a half
never went to work any more drew
my last money the 10th Of January.
While was working in the shops ! |
roomed in the yards in a car Lately ] !
roomed at the Nelson house In Juarez |
was knocked in the head and Knocked
senseless- worked couple of days l
at Hotel Dieu, TO earn my meals"
Mills building Watehman's Sforv
Night Waterman Hudson. Of the Mills
building, testified that about 40 q m
January p, night Waterman Barlow.
OF the Plaza block, who was standFnc
with witness, said, There's a man
looking into my building" He went /
over to him and the man Charles Look |
as II afterwards proved) swent up the /
dark alley and into the ba semenf area
OF the st Regis He stayed down there !
three to five minutes, then CANA mn
ana Went away In 10 or 20 minutes |
ne zane DaCA ana stopped at the alley /
between the Mills building and the 1
Plaza block This was about ? a m. /
he then went over to The Herald /
building. Early Wednesday morning /
January =, Look appeared on ore 4
gon street went into San JacintO plaza /
toward the fountain. then turned hack /
anu Went up TO the railroad and west /
on NAN street toward the rear Of The
herald building. then he came back /
ana turned up Oregon street; this was /
between ? and a. m. Later he saw
the man at the time Of his arrest
Plaza Block Waterman.
Nlght Waterman Barlow, Of the Plaza
DIock. testified that Sunday night or
1ather early Monday morning January
~ about o'clock. after Look had been
seen several times in the vicinity. Look
na9 come into the Plaza building and
asked 10 warm himself He let him
stay there till near dawn Look said
ne was on his way from the east 70
Los angeles, was a stranger, ana nad
stopped off here to visit JuareZ. Dut
lley had drugged him and took ms
money and ticket The next morning
ne came in the same way, and Barlow
warned the early wOrkmen when they I
came TO watch Look w ednesday l