Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-11-10
MYSTERY OF PETTY
BURGLARY SOLVED
BY ARREST or
MEXICAN
Arturo de la Huerta RecOg-
nized as Man Who Relieved
Guest in Hotel Denver of
Fifteen Dollars.
BELIEVED GUILTY OF
LONG SERIES OF GRIMES

with the arrest 90 arturo de- IN
iiuoria early thls morning bs Pa.
trolmuu Joe Salazar. the police be-
liove they have solved the mystery OF
the long series OF petty burglaries
and roberies Of rOoming house guests
which troubled the officers during
fair week.
Toward the close Of tho fn.r, Huer
"a, who claims 10 D.. nephew at the
Mexican dictator. was arrested as n
Nagraut and sent 20 the county jail
for thirty days With the arrest the
robberica ceased. and Chief MoMHlln
WAS convinced that he had the right
man. although ne was unable Ia fos.
ten any ~ tho crimes on the Mexican
Saturday Huortn was released. IA
the afternoon he wandered over On
the city police station ana was given
a small sum Of money Of which he
was possessed nt the time or his AR
rest and was warned To leave town
with an convenient speed Five
watches Of little value. which Hucrtu
had when arrested. were retained hy
the chief who still hopes that their
owners will reclaim them.
Tho Mexican failed "a heed tho
warning go leave town and engaged
room AZ the Commercial hotel on
South First street According Ia tho
proprletress, he retired about .
and remained In his room an night
There we're no reports at robborics
Saturday night
Sunday night. however. the man
was around town and evidently doing
business About midnight Landa
rIorsley. a guest AZ the hotel Denver,
at Coal and Second heard someone
omen his door. Horsloy had been m
and the landlady had been looking
after his wants. 20 he WIS not imme-
dlately alarmed when the door open
ed. Looking up ne saw q stranger
In the act of placing his trousers on
chair
THANK you. pal" said the stranger,
ns he softly closed the door and beat
Il down the hall.
IIorsely examined his trousers and
discovered that Si5.4e which was IN
one of the pockets hadi disappeared.
Ito at once gave the alarm with the
result that another guest Of the
house. 7 Hoffman discovered that
his watch was gone.
Tho police were notified and about
two hours later, Huerta was picked
up by officer Salagar. Searched az
police station the prisoner was found
tn have $3.50. ton-doilar blli a
two-doUar bin and the balance at the
cash iu silver Tho watch stolen from
huffman was not found This mora
ing "a the police station Horsloy posi-
lively identified uuorta as the man
who had thanked him for his cash.
The victim was also certain that the
trn-doilar bin found ON the prisoner
was his
Uuerta was also identified by Pc
dro Gutlorrcz. b young man who lives
a, the Mount Alton rooming house on
South sccond street Gutierrez told
the police that he was awakened by
a man attempting to effect an en-
trance into his room through The WIN
dow. Tie started for the window and
tho intruder disappeared Gutierrez
AGAIN retired 40 bed this time placing
Il revolver under his pillow. The
Youth had scarcely recovered from
the surprise of the first visit when
the intruder nRnin appeared at inc
window and started tn raise u. ou-
tierrcz pulled his pistol nnd fired ana
tho man disappeared ana ala not re-
turn. At the police station this morn
ing Gutiorrez was confident that
Uuorta was the man be- shot az,