The daily morning oasis., 1919-12-31
CHRISTMAS CHEER.
AT PATAGONIA.
With AFTERMATH.
IN 7 H E C 0 U R 7.
A Tequfla Establishment At
tempts To Use Criminal
Process To Bring To An
Accounting A Customer.

In Justice Wilkey's court yesterday
afternoon there was held the pre-
liminary examination of a young
man named Sam Foster, an employe
at the Pennsylvania rancho, above
Crittenden, that was amusing in a
way, but for the seriousness of the
charge: robbery.
The complaining witness was and
is Maria Duarte of Patagonia. She
had corroborating witness, wo-
man from Nogales visiting her. The
charge was that Christmas night the
accused, with another man, whose
name did not appear, forced entrance
into the home of the complaining wit
ness, with their faces covered with
handkerchiefs from the eyes down,
with guns in their hands, and they
proceeded to stick up the house in
true Wild West fashion, robbing the
owner, so alleged the complaint, and
the testimony of the two women, of
the sum of $3.50, her hard earned
savings. ,sse-.,a-='.,.- -.
The witnesses for the state were
put under the rule and each was ex-
cluded from the courtroom while the
other testified.
The testimony with regard to the
theatrical entrance of the alleged
robbers did not vary in the accounts
of the two women; but on the money
there was a heavy "fall down." al
though the stories agreed as to the
sum taken, but the details of what
kinds of money there were varied
greatly.
The complaining witness testified
that the money alleged to have been
taken consisted of two $50 bills, 500
in silver, and $25 in smaller bills of
various denominations, which she had
not counted for some time preceding
the alleged robbery.
The other woman testified that the
money had been taken out and count
ed but few minutes before the al
legged robbery, and that it was sum
of $3.50. of which $40 or $12 were in
silver, and the rest was mixed bills,
including SIS and $40 notes. There
were no $50 bills nor $40 notes in the
collection.
The defendant testified in his own
behalf that he had visited the house
earlier in the day and had bought a
quart bottle of tequila for which he
pail $13. At evening he went again
after another bottle of tequila, and
he was accompanied by friend,
whose name was not elected. The
bottle of tequila was produced, hand
et. him, and he rendered the same
sum he had paid in the morning for
a like bottle. The woman took the
money but demanded "cinio pesos
mas" He refused to bleed for the ad-
ditional five dollars, and she endeavor
ed to wrest the bottle from him. He
foiled her in that effort, and, look
ing around he saw four more quart
bottles of the conversation water"
and a pint bottle of it; whereupon he
swept the board of all five bottles
and decamped his friend with him.
carrying away five and one-half
quarts of the liquid chain lightning,
for his $13, which coup reduced the
high cost of living in that case to
what may be considered as somewhere
in the vicinity Of pre-war prices. In
other words it cost him by the quart
what would have been a high price
per gallon in 1914, before Germany
embarked upon her great adventure
of finding a place in the sun.
The accused called to the stand also
a number of iharacter witnesses, all
of whom testified to his sobriety, in
dustry, truthfulness, and all around
usefulness as good citizen and con-
sistent gentleman that could have
qualified him for a showdown in any