Arizona republican., 1920-10-12
ARRESTED ON CHARGE ENTERTAINMENT OF S35,OOO IN WACO, TEX.

VOOgOOO tiH unO01 th MESA, Oct 11.-Wanted in Waco, Texas, since 1915, for the alleged em- bezzlement of between $35.000 and O000. w. W. Curry. proprietor of shooting gallery in Mesa for number l of months past was arrested last week by Marshal Warren and Sunday night taken back to Texas where he will stand trial. A country wide search was made for Curry following his dis 1 appearance from Waso in 1915. A year later he was located in Portland where he was alleged to have been carrying on as a wealthy cotton grower. He got away there though. and the next clue the police of Waso secured of his whereabouts was in Mesa few weeks ago. His identity was made certain and his arrest fol- lowed last Tuesday. He acknowledged his guilt and waived extradition.
 According to Curry's own story to the Mesa authorities following his ar rest he was wanted in Waco for em- bezzlement which he said amounted to close to s40.0OO. Part of this money was secured from the volunteer fire department of that city and other amounts came from large saloons and hotels which he was managing. He turned over his interests in his shoot ing gallery in Mesa to a partner. ad ding that it wasn't likely he would re- turn to conduct the business personally very soon.
 Curry was said by the Waco police ] to have left a wife and two children behind him in Waco. He admitted his guilt when arrested here and stated that he was willing to return to answer the charges. Sergeant Hall of the Waco police force arrived in Mesa Sunday { morning and returned with the pris- oner that evening.
 8 Prisoner Gets Away
 A quarrel over a woman, wife of one of the men. resulted in a stabbing af- - fray in Mesa Sunday and Constable O. l.. Pickens is still conducting a search for Juan Dias, alleged to have s done the stabbing. The crime oc- ' cured on the corner by the First Ma s tional Bank Sunday evening and the . victim rests at the community hos - pital suffering from a deep gash in 2 his abdomen. cut by a knife. F Juan Dias. in his complaint to the constable that evening said that an L. other man was spending too mucl "a time with his wife and insisted on the ,- constable visiting his home to catcl Ie the visitor. Together they searched )f for the wife and other man all through & the northern part of town Sunda, IS evening for over an hour, and as the, ,- returned from their fruitless search Id the constable was told that a stabbinl E. affray had just occurred in town. H
 dismissed the Mexican and institutes m a search for the one who had com a mitted the stabbing. After anothe 70 fruitless search the conditions of tn be case were reviewed and it was foun is that the stabbing had occurred severa
 hours earlier instead of 15 minute
 before as was originally reported.
 Then it developed that Dias, jus
 after stabbing the companion of hi Ol wife had gone 10 the constable wit e. the story that the man was again go
 ing up to his home with his wife, bI
 carefully omitted any reference to th
 quarrel. Dias wife was here Monda
 but Dias himself had disappeared an
 the search still continues fruitless.
 Busy Day in Court
 One of. the busiest days in som
 weeks was witnessed by the ,Mes , police court on Monday in the handlin } of it's routine business.
 Juan Gomez. arrested Saturday fC
 being drunk was given a hearing ar
 found guilty. He was fined $15. Ed 7 DominqueZ was up on a like chars | and drew down the same fine.
 Glen Richardson appeared on
 charge of driving his automobile wi
 an open muffler. He was found guilt
 and paid a s5 fine.
 | Ebert Winkleman appeared on
 charge of hitting a minor. He plead
 not guilty and his trial was set f
 Saturday, Oct. 16. at D. m.
 Sam Craver. arrested Saturday mig
 for the alleged transporting of liqu
 was found guilty and assessed a choi
 of $40 or 40 days in the county ia He chose the fine route to liberty al paid his way out. Earle w Bur who was arrested at the same tir ! on a like charge was found guilty b
 in view of that being his first offen the judge was lenient and gave hi
 a suspended sentence.
 Mesa Students Make Good Record A report from the University of Al
 zona to the high school authorit
 shows that the freshmen students fro the local high school lead all studer | in the state except from Tucson. Tn | ranged very close to the Tucson hi school The names of the studei making this fine record are Vt / Power Ava II. Roberson Ralph
 Macdonald and Frank Bowen.
 Are Guests at Dinner = Misses Henrietta Tarwater. NJ 5cz Cotton and Mrs. Arnold were gue ccD of Mrs. Ernest CorteI at lunche c is Saturday at her home in the Rev 4-bo bungalow court.
 t is Tempe vs. Mesa
 all Manager Guy Rice has arranged .ecn the Mesa club to meet her old time
 ponents. Tempe, next Sunday.