The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-04-30
JACK OCONNELL
TAKES FROM
6ODAY SENTENCE
Found Guilty in Police
Court of Resisting
Arrest

which was furnished.
carl Nixon, whose arrest on tho
night OF April %. lead to the trouble
Of Oconueii with Policeman Saiazar
was fined as Tor disturbance OF the
peace, but sentence VAS suspended on
good behavior.
? The trial attracted a crowd 10 the
police court that more than filled the
courtroom.
Nixon was put on trial first and
when his case wns finished O'Connell
was tried. Tie had a plaster on the
lett side Of his hcad caused by being
struck by Omicer Salaxar.
Policeman Salaznr aud Merchants
Police Chavez were the principal
cases.
The defense he'd Witnesses. inciud-
Ing OCOnneil and Nixon. one other
witness besides the defendants. Paul
Wasser. "A taxi driver. was an eye
witness. Jack Jenkins. also a taxi
driver. testified TO seeing Onicer sal
azar knock down OConneli. arriving
on the scene just az hat time.
Dog Barks In shop.
The testimony IN the case OF Nixon
developed that Nixon. O'Connell and
Wasser were walking east ON West
Central avenue on the night of tho
trouble, having Just left O'Connelrs
Office about midnight.
The witnesses for the defense tcsii-
fled that when they were opposite
Kcleher's harness shop in the 400
block. a dog inside the shop began
barking and lunging at the door.
Nixon testified he jumped away from
the doo and might hgve kicked It
slightly in so doing. Al the same time
the glass Ia the door fell out.
officer Saiazar testified that he was
about half a block away and heard
someone Kicking IN the door. lie
said he then heard "a crash as OF fall
Ing glass. lie said he hurried to the
scene and placed Nixon under arrest.
lie testified Nixon offered to pay any
damage he had done, but was told he
would have To 20 TO the station.
that what he said to the officer was
that II he had caused the damage he
was willing to pay for II.
All tho Witnesses then agreed that
sOmlCcr Salazar started with Nixon to
the police station and hat Merchant
Police Chavez, O'Cunncll and Wasscr
went along.
sulazar testified that when on
Copper avenue between Second and
Third streets. O'Connell came up be-
hind him aud pulled his club a Of
his hand ana ran out into the middle
of the street and threw down his
uvcrcoat and dared him 10 shoot
Sn.azar says he ran out aud called
chavez to assist him ana they took
the stick away from O'COnnoll He
said O'Cuuncll then struck him on the
back of the head with his fist aud
that he hit O'Conuell ON the side Of
the head with the stick, knocking him
to the ground. He then said O'COn-
. .H - - f. ..LAaHN .. g..
the station and did so whore he gave
bond. both for himself and for Nixon,
Saiazar testified that both Nixon and
O'Conncll had been drinking,
Chavez testified virtually To the
same thing as Salazar. lie also said
he believed O'Conncll and Nixon had
been driukinE.
ncnir- O'ConnclI Hit Oniccr.
nixon testified That O'Conncll never
struck Saluzar and that both SalHzai
aud Chavez were walking with him
aud that O'Cunnell and Masser were
in the rear. lie said s~Hluzar suddenly
turned around n asked O'Councll
what he was going to do and TO go
home. Ito said O'Connoll said he
was going 20 tho station to bail Nixon
out and that the officer hen kept
advancing toward O'Connell ana al
though O'Councn protested To him
not 10 hit him that he struck him ON
the head, knocking him down. lie
said the officers stick was broken by
the blow.
Wasscr. the other eyewitness,
testified that chavez. O'Dunuoll and
himself were In the rear of NtNon
and Salazar on the way to the sta
ton. lie testified that Salazur came
back aud struck O'Conuell without
the latter having one anything. lie
said chavez made no move during
the entire time, but uftcrward helped
take both prisoners To the station.
lie testified that he left then n did
not go on 10 the station.
Jack jenkins, IA taXi driver. who
said he was going from the Monte
yuma rooms. 10 his stand on Central
avenue. said he heard loud talking IN
the street and Went over TO see what
the trouble was and saw SainNlr adj
Ntucing toward O'Cuunell and strike
him. knocking him 10 the cround Ito
said he did not know whut re- hap
pencd before that time.
VConnclrs TESTIMONY.
O'Conucll. ON The stand in his owl
defense. told how he followed the OF
ficor and nixon to- the station VA or
der to bail NiSon out. lie said Sal.
AGAR turned around and started bach
aNNA NANNN NN NNt NANNN' w NNHA'
trouble and asked him what he wa
going to do and to go home, lie sale
when he threatened to strike him h'
protested. lie said he remembers,
getting up and starting to The sta
ton. but said his mind VA "a blanl
as TO what occurred IN tho station
not even remembering signing
check for bond and that he aid no
know he was bleeding and had a hol'
la the side ut his head until ho Wa
ia a restaurant on West Central.
O'COuugll then said he called li
Carnes and later went after him 3
u taxicab aud they came To- Ia
Z Carnes onicc where his wound wa
dressed. lie said he remembers
only part OF what trhnspired there
lie denied that either he or NiNc
were intoxicated. lie said Nixon wu
employed by him as u hookkcepe
and had boon working OF the book
the night OF tho trouble. lie said n
was at the office Whiting tor Vase
= 10 return with an auto he had lVane