El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-04
MORRIS FINED $500
IN THE CITY COURT
Is Convicted on a Charge of
Vagrancy-Many Wit
nesseS Heard.


neSSeS Heard.
By a verdict of the jury returned in
( five minutes after the case was given
to it. NJ. Morris, alias Morris Terra
shewsky, on trial in the corporation
court Friday afternoon on charge OF
yaGrancy, was found guilty and as
sessed as a puniShme Il a 5000 fine
Because in its verdict the jury neg
lected to specify the amount of the
fine writing instead that the extreme
penalty was recommended, it was sent
back by judge Adrian Pool. of the
court, for the second time. The defend
ant gave notice Of appeal A jury
Thursday was. unable to agree.
ROthmnn Gives More Evidence.
Additional testimony bearing on the
day afternoon by Joseph ROthman,
special police officer, who sWOre that
the defendant told him that
the Davis woman, his wife, who occu-
was making good money, and that
some of 1t might be needed for law
yers, and that lawyers cost money
me witness produced a memoranda
which he stated contained figures
taken from the bank book of the de-
PENDANT and showed that total sum
of $3.50 had been deposited in a local
bank from September 16 to November
l. The first deposit, the witness tes-
titled, was made on September 16 and
was for $500. The sum of $3.50 had
been deposited in October, he said, to-
gether with smaller amounts at diff
terent periods.
andria, Egypt" Rothman testified,
where he was engaged in the same
business as he is here, keeping wOm-
an of prostitution"
ROthman's History.
hoffman testified that he had let
ters from president Taft showing that
he was a special interpreter for the
government in the Philippine islands
Later he said he went to Panama as an
official in the department of justice.
His duties, he said, consisted of look
ing after violations of the naturaIi-
cation laws and the white slave traffic
act. When he came to Ell PasO, he
consul G E Llorente by Mr.. ThOmp-
son, of the department of justice. He
was employed by the Mexican consul,
he stated. Prior TO that time and dur
ing the month of July last the wit
ness said that ne was employed by
Felix SOmmerfelt. He said that he
did not know Abe Molina. When asked
as TO his nationally. he said he was
Jew, but not a Russian Jew.
When George Estes referred to the
witness as a foreigner, Rothman re-
piled: I am a better citizen than you,
being one by choice" He said that he
came to the United States when he was
five years of age, and took out his
naturalization papers when he could.
New W illness Is Heard.
Testimony that was offered at the
trial Thursday afternoon showing that
had lived together at different places,
was again introduced Friday.
Walter D. Fisher, a new witness.
who stated that he was an attache of
the bath house, 4O6 North Oregon
street testified that he had seen the
defendant and the Davis woman come
to their arrest there He said they
them.
On cross examination, the witness
of ny
others who had taken baths on the |
same day that he said he saw the de- /,
-endant and his wife there.
The Woman TestIfies.
Jennie Davis testified that she and ]
he defendant came to Ell PasO to- /
5ether about four years ago. She tes-
flied that she left her husband at Chi
ago because he was not making money
ike she wanted him to. She said she
vas at Dallas and Houston, and the
efendant was at both places. At the
different places they stopped in Il
'aso, she said, the defendant paid the
ent because he wanted her to quit
Sserted that she had never contrib
ted to his support The day that the
wo were arrested at the bath house.
he said she had gone there to sign
1me papers for her husband. She de- :
AIRED that she would never return to
er husband. The witness denied ever
larged she followed the same life she
limited that she was engaged in here.
Marriage of the Couple
The witness stated that she and the
.fendant were married about 10 years
80 in Russia, and married again here,
ur years ago. The second marriage,
lie said, was performed because no
)cumentS were issued through the
wish ceremony by which they were
A check for the sum of $50, purport-
z to have been drawn by the defend
L paya BILE to Sam H. London, an at
rney, was introduced by the state.
be witness said she knew nothing
out the check. She testified that she
d once paid London a small fee.
The defendant reiterated his testi-
ony of Thursday, repeating that he I
ne. He said that the bank book
owing the deposit of S400 was money I
had received from Chicago. When :
ked how he knew that his wife, when
e left him at Chicago, had gone to G
-llas, he replied that some friends in
at city had told him. He went to 9
FL Paso with his wife on the same
ain. On cross examinatiOn he ad- 3
tied that his wife might have been Z a
re several days before ne came r
London, who appeared in response to Il
e summons, testified: I have known J a
E defendant about three years. 1 did {
sinesS with him on November 8, for q
itch I was paid by check Tor $50. :
was my fee in examining the title Il
some property which he wanted to / C
- ncSe. -
On cross examination the attorney q
i'd; Il have known Jennie Davis b
out as long as I have known Nor a
She never paid me a cent 1 have
yer represented her in this court or G.
Y other. I have known Norris on .,
2 relationship Of an attorney and
ent You, Mr. Brown, could not ex- d
ct me to disclose anything that has !
me to me in that way" u
Isn't he commonly known as a D
-" asked VOlney Brown, prosecut- a
: the case. 4 am not asking you to "
'ulge anything that has come to you "
reason of the defendant having con- n
tied you in the capacity of client =
I to state this on your own personal u
owledge." CT
The witness. What information I ! :.
We comes to me as an attorney from y
client. I refuse TO make the state ( o.
mt 1 only represented the defend Al
Z once That was in Il divorce case. ! -
was not against Jennie Davis. DC
Mt remember when that was. Ger :
My not this year. I do not remem-