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ARMOR,
E. M. A BORDER AND HIS BILL Capitol Hill Episode Rehearsed in Justice Cowell's
Court. Rocky
Mountain News, 5/29/1895
Yesterday in Cowell's court, E. M.
Armor, a drug clerk, was placed on trial, he being accused of assault and battery
and burglary by Mrs. Clara Ball, landlady of a boarding house on Capitol
Hill. The prosecuting witness accused Armor of having broken into a
room about April 1. Armor failed to pay a board bill of $126 and was
given notice to leave. Mrs. Ball locked the door of the room occupied
by Armor. On the day mentioned Armor called with an express man.
The two men broke into the room after a struggle with Mrs. Ball and removed
Armor's trunk and other belongings. Attorney Mosey espoused the cause
of Mrs. Ball, and it is said, made an agreement with Armor that did not suit
the landlady. It is also claimed that previous to the trouble Armor
agreed to supply the house with $50 worth of coal in settlement of part of
his bill. The coal come and also a bill to Mrs. Ball which she was
compelled to pay. The case will be resumed today. Barry, William & Ellen GOT THE MONEY How a Woman Recovered Her
Husband's Savings Denver Post, 1/1/1895 William Barry of lower Capitol Hill celebrated the joyous
New Year by getting drunk and losing his holiday savings, amounting to
$25. William returned home yesterday to his wife, Ellen, after his
night's dissipation and confided to his faithful helpmate his sad experience. Family
tears were shed and Ellen at once resolved to make an effort to recover the
family savings. She
located the alleged thief in the person of Widow Coffield. The
determined wife called to her assistance several of her lady friends, and an
attack was made upon the widow's abode. Cautiously they approached the
humble cottage and, taking the widow by surprise, bounded upon her and
disrobed her. Among her clothes a roll of money was found, and the
wife, after taking $25, returned the remainder to the prostrate widow, who
throughout the proceedings kept appealing for her life. The happy wife
on recovering her family savings threatened the unhappy widow with dire
vengeance if she ever again looked at her husband, and departed for her home
across the railroad tracks. This morning
Widow Coffield swore out a warrant in Justice Cater's court for Ellen's
arrest. BARRY, William & Ellen DISMISSED THE CASE Mrs. Barry Did Not Sin When she Obtained Her Money. Denver
Post, 1/5/1895
Judge Cater this morning dismissed the cases of larceny against Ellen Barry,
Mrs. Barry is the woman who it's claimed disrobed Widow Cafflery and
took $25 from her.
Mrs. Barry denies that her husband was drunk when he lost the money.
After the money was missed, the widow was suspected and the money found on
her person. BIGLOW,
Mamie, aka May. MAY BIGLOW'S TRIAL Charged With Robbing Two of Her Visitors. Denver
Post, 1/5/1895
The cases of Mamie, alias May
Biglow, charging her with larceny from the person, came up for trial at the Criminal
court today and was reset for January 24.
There are two charges against her. One is for stealing $95 from C. H.
Tilton and the other is for stealing $70 from Ladena Lucore. Tilton was
placed under $500 bonds for his appearance at the trial. Judge O. N.
Hilton is defending her. BOY
CRIMINALS Judge Butler Decides That Justices Have No
Jurisdiction Over Their Offenses. Rocky
Mountain News, 1/29/1895
The fact that the district and county courts have original and exclusive
jurisdiction in case against small boys charged with criminal offenses was
yesterday brought to the attention of Judge Butler in the West Side
court.
Cases against five youthful violators of the law were nolle prossed and the
district attorney was instructed to file new information. the question at
issue was the competency of the justices of the peace to try boys under the
age of 16 years and to bind them over to the district court.
Judge Butler held that under the statutes of 1893 the action of Justice Cater
in binding over Miles Brannigan and John Weaver,
was illegal. Brannigan and Weaver, lads of exceedingly tender age, were
arrested ten days ago for stealing a penny-in-the-slot candy machine.
They were given a preliminary hearing in Cater's court and fully confessed
their guilt. The justice bound each over in the sum of $300 and the
boys went to jail pending a hearing. Their case was called Saturday and
after evidence was introduced it was continued until yesterday. The argument
was advanced that the justice of the peace had no jurisdiction, which was
sustained by the judge. The case was therefore nolle prossed.
Freddy Ball's case was also nolled. Freddy stole a
bicycle a few weeks ago and was bound over. Frank Kilgore, the
sprinter, who dodged a bullet sent after him by Chief Shirley a week ago last
Saturday, was taken in to court with his brother James. Upon
application of counsel the case against the brothers was nolled. Today
the district attorney will file new information.
The fact that justices of the peace have tired and bound over boys who are,
in the language of the law, "infants" not withstanding the
provision in the statutes giving giving the higher courts jurisdiction, has
caused considerable surprise. During the past few months several boys
have been sent to the industrial school at Golden by justices of the peace
before whom they were convicted. According to Judge Butler's ruling
these sentences are invalid, the justices having no authority. The
disposition of cases against young male "infants" has been very
puzzling to the authorities. The Industrial school is clearly a penal
institution and the officials frequently hesitate in sending boys 6 and 7
years of age to that place.
Edward Demelier and Jacob Schick, who pleaded
guilty to six charges of burglary and grand larceny, were yesterday
sentenced. Demelier to serve five years in the reformatory. Both
prisoners are young men. They burglarized offices in the News block and
several grocery and hardware stores.
Ed Tunberge, a Swede, accused of administering poison to Mollie
Downey, will have a hearing Feb. 18. A nolo contendere was entered in the case against George Rowe, assault to murder.
BROBECK, LEBRON - See *EADES, JOHN BROWN,
A. M. HIS JAG BROKE THE JUGS. Drunken Engineer with a Lot of Crockery. Rocky
Mountain News, 6/27/1895
While Ezra Steinmetz and Clyde Roe, boys employed by the Denver
Porcelain and Stoneware Company, were engaged in unloading jugs and plates
from a wagon at Fifteenth and Lawrence Streets yesterday afternoon, one A. M.
Brown, an engineer living at 1441 Blake Street approached. Brown was
under the influence of liquor and he saw before him an excellent opportunity
to give vent to his hilarious feelings.
He approached the wagon at an unsteady gait, took the whip from its socket
and drove the boys away. He then filled his arms with jugs and turned
and faced the crowd that had been attracted by the disturbance.
"Smash de jugs!" shouted a newsboy. For support Brown leaned
against the dashboard. The suggestion of the newsboy had its
effect. Seeing that he could easily become a hero, he deliberately
smashed the jugs upon the asphalt pavement. The small boys yelled in
glee. Officer Blake placed Brown under arrest and charged him with
drunkenness and disturbance. CLARK,
Clarence W. THE KNOT WAS WEAK Doubt About the Legality of Clarence Clark's
Marriage. Justice Morse, Who Performed the Ceremony for the
Pretended Bicycle Champion, Did Not Fill in the Blanks Properly, and The
Action of the Bride in Obtaining a Divorce Is Thought to Have Been
Unnecessary. Denver
Post, 1/5/1895
Miss Gertie Hutchinson, who secured
a divorce from her husband, Clarence W. Clark, some time ago, had all her
trouble for nothing.
It will be remembered that Clark came to this city with many medals and a
bicycle.
He claimed to have won all the medals in bicycle races, and whispered it
around that he possessed a diamond belt valued $30,000. He arrived here
on a Friday and was married the following Monday, was arrested on Wednesday
and was divorced a week later. The divorce proceedings have proven were
not necessary, as the couple were not legally married.
Judge Morse, who received the envelope from Clark which contained a $1 bill
for performing the ceremony, was over paid, and Clark's friends will probably
bring suit to have the money refunded. In making out the certificate
Judge Morse inserted Clark's name where his own should be and left the spaces
for the contracting parties blank.
According to the marriage certificate the marriage was not legally
performed. When the suit was brought for divorce Clark was confined in
the county jail where he was serving a sixty day sentence for petty larceny.
He had gone into a woman's room in the La Casa block and stolen $10 from the
mantel. This money he used to get the marriage license and gave Judge
Morse a lonely dollar bill for performing the ceremony.
The rest of the cash was used to take his bride to Castle Rock, where he was arrested
and brought back.
Clark is at present serving out his sentence and will be tried next week for
alleged perjury, as it is charged that he swore falsely when he said his
bride was over 18 years old. COCHRAN, D. A. THE FIRST CASE Special to The News Rocky Mountain News, 2/3/1895 GREELEY,
Colo., Feb. 2 -- The first case against D. A. Cochran, the alleged rustler,
was begun in Justice Roe's court yesterday and concluded this
afternoon. The charge against Cochran in this case was the larceny of a
number of head of cattle, the property of C. G. Buckingham of Boulder, and
the case was pushed by the Cattle Growers' Association. The justice,
after the testimony was closed decided to hold Cochran to appear at the next
term of the district court, the amount of the bond to be fixed Monday
next. H. E. Chruchhill, Esq., attorney for the defense notified the
district attorney that if he would file all the charges in his possession
against Cochran, he would waive examination and the bonds in all cases could
then be argued. The district attorney promised to make answer at the
hearing of the second case Monday and here the matter rests. COOLEY, James STATE HAPPENINGS Denver Post, 3/6/1895 Glenwood Springs--James Cooley is on trial here for the
killing of Patrick Bohen last November. CRESSWELL, David P. (see article under Pardons) CURRAN,
John GREEN,
Thomas LOCAL BREVITIES Rocky
Mountain News 6/14/1895
August Pabst, loaded with beer, was held up in the alley in the rear of the Haymarket
last night. Later in the evening John Curran and Thomas Green were
arrested on suspicion of being connected with the holding up of Pabst. DeMERCEY,
A. H. (*see
article under Pardons) DeMOSS,
WILLIAM DE MOSS TRIAL Accused Will Be Arraigned Today for Killing Giuseppi
Cemino. Rocky
Mountain News, 6/10/1895
William DeMoss will be placed on trial in the West Side court this morning
for the murder of Giuseppi Cemino, also known as Joe Ross, on the afternoon
of Easter Sunday, April 14. Cemino, in company with other Italians, was
holding a feast at the home of Vincent Talerico, at Thrity-first and Quincy
Streets, North Denver, when DeMoss and four companions came by and mimicked
the dancing of the Italians. Cemino and DeMoss had some words together,
when DeMoss pulled a 32-caliber revolver and shot him through the heart,
eye-witnesses say, without any provocation. Ralph Talbot will defend
the accused. DeMoss, since his arrest and imprisonment in the county jail, has spent most of his time reading or playing checkers with the guards. His conduct has been exemplary, and at no time has he shown a disposition to cause the jail officials any trouble. Regarding his crime and his hopes for the future he has always declined to speak with any person except his brother-in-law and his attorney.
DONNELLY,
ROBERT AN
ALLEGED BURGLAR. Rocky
Mountain News, 7/6/1895 Dectective Captured a Dangerous Thief Robert
Donnelly, a general all round thief and burglar and a former inmate of the Buena
Vista reformatory was arrested last evening in the New York house at 1740
Market Street by Detectives Connors and Gardner. He was charged with burglary and a complete outfit was found,
consisting of "in and outside" screw, chisel and numerous other articles
indispensable to a burglar's complete outfit. He is accused of robbing the room of Frank Murphy, at 1436
Market Street, the latter part of last week and stealing a suit of clothes,
hat and a cheap clock. He is also
charged with the burglary of the residence at 434 South Pearl Street and
stealing a large amount of clothes and jewelry. Donnelly is only 21 years of age and for six years past has been in jail more or less of the time. He is a native of Tenn., and came to Denver three weeks ago. He was sentenced from Arapahoe County in August, 1892, to the Buena Vista reformatory for two years for burglary and larceny and was pardoned after serving seventeen months and two days. Donnelly was arraigned in Justice Howze's court this morning and bound over to the district court in the sum of $500.
EADES, JOHN Slayer of John Eades Will Be Tried for Murder. Rocky Mountain News, 5/30/1901, Pg 12 Special to The News - Steamboat Springs, Colo. May 29, 1901--In the preliminary hearing of Lebron BROBECK, the slayer of John EADES at this place, before Justice FINLEY, the defendant asked for a continuance until he could have time to prepare his case. This was denied. He then applied for a change of venue and the case was sent to Justice HERWIG of Elk Mountain. Last night the defendant was bound over without bail. ELDER,
DR. HIS WRONGED WIVES A
Doctor Suffers a Terrible Punishment at Their Hands. Denver
Post, 4/11/1895 Page 5 Was Forced to Live in the Same House With Both of
Them and They Never to Speak to Him--He Married the First Wife in a Colorado
Mining Town--A Strange Story of a Too Much Married Man. Fort
Scott, April 11, --The recent murder of old man Strevel by his son and the
story of the separation of the husband and wife fifteen years ago and their
strange and romantic meeting several months since in this, Bourbon County,
has given this city a great deal of prominence throughout the country.
Many strange incidents have happened in this county within the past twenty
years. For a decade this was the outpost of Southwestern civilization,
and here it was that the daring and roving characters made headquarters.
There is an old man now past the age of 70 living on his fine farm in this
county who figures in one of the most wildly picturesque episodes that ever
transpired in the West. The part he played in the romance, that of
marrying two women and deserting both of them, is not so strange as the
sequel which followed.
Twenty-four years ago Dr. Elder located on a farm fifteen miles from this
city. He came from the East, and his wife, who was an industrious,
economical woman, aided him materially in saving enough money to buy several
hundred acres of land and improving it with a good farmhouse and stock
barns. Dr. Elder was a physician, and for many years enjoyed a
lucrative practice in the northern part of Bourbon County. While he was
engaged in his profession Mrs. Elder, superintended the farm and directed the
two men who were employed to plant, cultivate and harvest the crops.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Elder, two sons and a daughter, all
of whom are now married and living in this vicinity.
During these years of affection between parents and children was marked, and
the happy union of Dr. and Mrs. Elder was the comment of the neighborhood.
Finally Dr. Elder disappeared. He came to Fort Scott, boarded a train
for the North, and that was the last seen of him. This occurred about
twelve years ago. The heart-broken wife and sons telegraphed to friends
in various parts of the country, but no tidings came of the missing
man. They thought he must have been waylaid and murdered for his
money. At last they gave up hope, and Mrs. Elder and her children
continued to run the farm as before, making money from the sale of crops and
stock.
Three years and a half after his disappearance Dr. Elder returned. He
arrived at the old homestead in the night, and was greeted with loving
embraces from his wife and children. He explained that he had been
traveling through the mountains and on the Pacific slope, where he had hoped
to make a fortune in mining investments and return and surprise his good wife
and children. Sickness and misfortune had overtaken him, he said, and
he was compelled to return to the old home. He said he should have communicated
with his family, perhaps, but that he knew they would manage the farm as
before and do well.
This explanation was accepted by Mrs. Elder in good faith, although she
admitted that the story was a trifle gauzy. However, no questions were
asked, and Dr. Elder resumed his old place in the affections of his wife, who
exerted herself to make him happy and contented. But she did not dream of the
revelations soon to be made. One day, a short time after the doctor's
return, he went to town on an errand and to meet old friends. While he
was absent a strange woman, about 45 years of age , called at the Elder
homestead. She was neatly dressed and heavily veiled. She was met
at the door by the doctor's good wife, and, being assured that Dr. Elder resided
there, she walked in the parlor.
"Is this Mrs. Elder?" asked the stranger.
"It is," replied the lade of the house. "What can I do
for you?"
"I have come to say to you that I am also Mrs. Elder, and that your
husband is my husband."
The two women gave each other a piercing look, and not a word was uttered for
several minutes. Finally Mrs. Elder No. 1 invited Mrs. Elder No. 2 to
state her case. She commenced her story by telling how she first met
Dr. Elder three years and a half before in a little mining town in southern
Colorado. The doctor was there prospecting. She was a widow
and boarded at the same hotel. Dr. Elder became acquainted with her and
that acquaintance ripened into a warm attachment for each other. One
day the doctor asked her to be his wife. She accepted and they were
married. Soon they moved to a ranch several miles distant, where they
lived until Dr. Elder deserted her. He was kind and generous and a good
husband. All she knew about his former life was the statement he once
made of having lived in Bourbon County, Kansas, before going to
Colorado. He disappeared from the ranch as mysteriously as he did from
his farm in Bourbon County. To the Colorado woman he protested that he
was a bachelor seeking a fortune in the west. Mrs. Elder No. 2 said
that the doctor left her almost penniless and that three weeks after his
disappearance she sold all her earthly possession in Colorado and came to
Fort Scott to see if she could get trace of him. She was told that such
a man lived fifteen miles distant who had been absent over three years and
who had just returned to his family.
When Mrs. Elder No. 1 had heard this story she could no longer doubt its
authenticity, and to Mrs. Elder No. 2 she said: "Dr. Elder has wronged
you no more that he has wronged me. He has grievously wronged both of
us and has committed and offense which ought to put him behind prison bars
during the remainder of his life". Wife No. 1, assured wife No. 2
that there was plenty of room there for both of them and told her she could
remain there and enjoy the fruits of Elder's labor in former years.
After a long conversation the women agreed to remain friends and to stand by
each other in making life a burden to the man who betrayed them.
The return of Dr. Elder, that afternoon was anxiously awaited by his two
wives. Just as the sun was sinking behind the hills that fringe the
Marmaton River, the Doctor drove up to the barn. "That's my
husband," shouted Mrs. Elder No. 2, "but the wretched
creature." One of the hired men was sent out to the barn to take care of
his horse and to inform him that he was wanted in the parlor. When he
stepped into the room there he met face to face the two women he had
betrayed. He could not speak. He was overcome with the enormity
of the crime which he had committed, and fell upon his knees and begged these
wronged women and God to forgive him.
But there was no forgiveness. All feeling of love and sympathy had
turned to hate, and from that moment the two wives were determined to make
his punishment equal to the disgrace and chagrin he had brought upon
them. They quickly decided upon a method, and as soon as the doctor had
rallied from his shock he was given the ultimatum. They told him that
if he attempted to leave the country they would follow him to the remotest
bounds of the earth to put him behind prison bars. Should he desire to
spend his days on the old farm he could do so, but he should never speak to
either of them again; and further, that he was to occupy a certain room in
the house as his own and that he should never again set foot in any other
room in the building.
To this day these injunctions have been respected by Dr. Elder. For
eight years he has lived by himself. He is too old and feeble to
practice medicine and spends his time in his room brooding over the
past. His two wives live there also and neither have spoken to him
since the day his crime was made public. When necessary they communicate with
him by means of a slate or pencil or paper. His room adjoins the dining
room and in the partition a hole has been cut, through which his food is
handed him. Neither the doctor no his wives will discuss their
troubles. They each prefer to live a quiet and secluded life.
They rarely leave the farm and never visit with their neighbors. (Transcribe note: The headline appears to be a bit
misleading as to wife number 2.) EVANS, Jeff STATE HAPPENINGS Denver Post, 3/6/1895 Pueblo--It is rumored that Jeff Evans, who lives 19 miles
east of here, was shot and killed during a fight over some cattle
yesterday. Evans is well known here having killed Sam Duke in Pueblo in
1890. FLETCHER, ERNEST Denver Republican, 12/31/1894 Pg 6 THE GOVERNOR'S LAST PARDON He Orders A New Year's Greeting For Ernest
Fletcher.
The Governor yesterday issued a pardon to Ernest Fletcher, confined in the
penitentiary on a 10 year sentence for grand larceny. A petition had been
presented to the State Board of Pardons, but had not been acted on by that
body. The Governor thought the case was a deserving one, and so granted
a pardon without waiting for the recommendation of the board, as his term
will expire before another meeting of the board can be held and the case
considered. At the December meeting strenuous efforts were made to get
the case advanced and secure the consideration, but they were not
successful. The governor's action has settled the matter, however, it
will probably be the last pardon he will issue before his retirement.
Fletcher was sent up from Elbert County on December 14, 1890, for grand
larceny, to serve 10 years, the full limit of the law for the offense.
In the pardoning document the Governor recites the failure of the Board of
Pardons to act on the case. He states that the young man is only 22
years old, and that this was his first offense. He had been in jail 11
months before he was sentenced, and has already served 4 years and 11 months
of his time. In view of the fact that he was probably led into the
commission of the offense by evil companions, and that if liberated he will
reform and become a good citizen, and also, in view of the fact that he has
already served nearly seven years in jail, counting the time deducted for
good behavior, the Governor grants him a full and unconditional pardon, to
take effect on January 1. FRY, W. H. STATE HAPPENINGS Denver Post, 3/6/1895 Colorado Springs--W. H. Fry was arrested here
yesterday on a warrant charging him with arson at Durango. GRAHAM, George EIGHT YEARS FOR MURDER George Graham Pleads Guilty and Invokes the Clemency
of the Court. Rocky Mountain News, 1/22/1895 The second trial of George Graham
for murder was opened before Judge Butler in the West Side Court yesterday
afternoon. Graham was convicted of murder in the second degree before
Judge Graham about a month ago, and was granted a new trial. Yesterday,
after all the evidence of the state had been submitted, the prisoner, on the
advice of F. E. Carsterphen, his attorney, entered a plea of guilty to
the charge of voluntary manslaughter. The plea was accepted and the
prisoner was permitted to make a statement before sentence was pronounced.
He claimed that he did not intend to do any harm when the crime was
committed, and begged to be given a light sentence so that he could begin
life anew when he got out and before he got too old. Judge Butler said
that he ought to have used more thought when he committed the crime and saved
himself the trouble. Under the circumstances, the court thought it
would be improper to give less than the maximum penalty, eight years. Ernest Budlong was
given three years in the penitentiary for burglary and larceny. In the case against Frank
Blank et al., charged with robbery, a noile prosequi, was entered as
to Blank. J. B. Schlottman, accused of uttering forged papers, waived examination and entered a plea of not not guilty.
GRISWALD, George Rocky
Mountain News 4/10/1895 BROKE TWO RIBS Why an Ex-Policeman Was Arraigned in Court.
George Griswald, an ex-police officer, was on trail today before Justice
Cater, Charged with assault to kill. Frank Wiley, a saloon keeper, at No. 1716
Market Street, was the complaining witness, and in the complaint alleged that
the ex-wielder of the locust came into a room at the Diamond Hotel, Nineteenth
and Market, on the 6th of April and struck him on the head with "some
blunt instrument." In court this morning he testified that he
visited the Diamond Hotel to see a friend. Wiley made some remark and
Griswald knocked him down striking him over the head and then kicking him
until he broke two of his ribs. Griswald testified that he called at the
room and Wiley tried to put him out and he was knocked down. The court
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HANNUM,
James SHOT THROUGH THE HEART Fred Johnson Killed by James Hannum in Aspen
Yesterday. Special
to the News Rocky
Mountain News, 8/28/1895 ASPEN,
Colo., Aug. 27.--At 3 o'clock this morning James Hannum shot and killed Fred
Johnson in a house on Tincan Alley. Deceased was sleeping in a rear
room. Hannum came to the place, searching for his alleged wife.
Upon hearing the noise, it is supposed Johnson arose and caught Hannum's
second shot, which passed through his hear. He reeled towards the front
door, and there fell and died. HENRI, JAMES SAYS
HE'S IN LEADVILLE Rocky Mountain News, 6/8/1895 CARSON, Nev., June 7--Mrs.
Henri, wife of James Henri, the man supposed to have stolen $80,000 from the
Carson mint, filed with the commissioner of the United States Court a
proposition that Henri would voluntarily come to Carson if his bail would be
fixed at $5,000. The dispatch from Arizona that James Henri had been arrested
there was untrue, as Henri is at the Hotel Vendome at Leadville, Colo., and
has openly sent and received messages to and from there. The Tribune, in commenting on the action of the government officials
in the mint matter this evening, say that few people believe the government
detectives and representatives really want Henri at all. HENRI, JAMES CALLED
FOR A TELEGRAM Special to The News Rocky Mountain New, 6/8/1895 LEADVILLE, Colo., June
7.--At the Hotel Vendome it was learned that James Henri was not registered
Wednesday and Thursday nights. A man
by that name called and inquired of the hotel clerk if there was a message
for him. The message came Thursday
night and was sent in care of the Hotel Vendome. Henri received it and left the hotel. A man answering his description left on the westbound train
tonight in company with two other men. HOFFMAN,
Frank/BLATZ, Conrad BACK FROM CANON Two Prisoners Arrive Here In A State of
Intoxication.
Detective Chamber arrived in Denver
this morning at 8 o'clock from Canon City with Frank Hoffman and Carl Blatz, the
men released yesterday from the penitentiary. The prisoners are wanted
on charges of passing forged checks on several business houses.
The men, when they arrived in the city jail, were in a beastly state of
intoxication and were consigned to the hospital cell to sleep off their
dissipation.
It is not known how the men became intoxicated as they were placed under
arrest after they left the prison office.
When they become sufficiently sober today, they will be taken before Justice
Cowell for preliminary examination. HORACEK,
...... TO EXHUME A BODY Coroner Martin Will Consider Muntsinger's Death. ALLEGED THAT HE WAS KILLED TO AVOID A TRIAL FOR
THEFT. Reports Say That the Body of the Deceased Man Has Been
Removed from the Place of Interment for the Purpose of Avoiding an
Autopsy--Hasty Funeral and an Inquest That the Coroner Holds Was Without Any
Excuse in Law. Rocky
Mountain News, 1/17/1895 Coroner Martin yesterday announced that he would go to Burlington,
Colo., and hold an inquest over the remains of Fred Muntsinger,
who was shot and killed Christmas Eve near his home. The coroner
intended to take an 8 o'clock train last night for Burlington, but he did not
go. Today he will probably make the trip and superintend an
investigation into the tragedy that occurred Christmas Eve. He will not
be welcomed by a certain faction in the vicinity of the Muntsinger home, as
it is claimed the killing of Muntsinger was pre-arranged on the part of neighbors
to place him where he would give no more information to the authorities about
criminal occurrences. Each day brings additional information about the
......., taking off of Muntsinger--information that places certain
persons in a very bad light. Rumors
of Ghoulish Work
For the purpose of conducting an inquest, the remains of Muntsinger will be
exhumed, if the corpse is still in the same grave where it was buried the day
after the shooting. It was broadly hinted yesterday that the remains had
been taken from the grave and removed to an unknown spot by persons who
interests would be advanced by such a diabolical act.
Since the killing, it is rumored, Horacek, the self-confessed
slayer of Muntsinger told some friends that he did not kill Muntsinger, but
that he made the confession because he was advised to do so.
An examination of Muntsinger's clothes showed that the bullet had entered the
back and that he was not shot in the chest as testified to at the
inquest. The funeral was a very plain affair. A farmer named Holm
furnished boards for a coffin and the body was laid away in mother earth
without ceremony.
One of the mourners, it is said, was the man whom Munstinger's friends accuse
of firing the fatal shot. This man is not Horacek but another. Cattle Rustlers Watched.
The information leading to the binding over of three brothers named Zick
and a man named Rickoff upon charges of cattle
stealing, was given to the authorities by Muntsinger. He wrote a letter
to Sheriff Norman of Cheyenne County, telling the sheriff that he went if he
went to Holm's ranch in Cheyenne County on a certain day he
would find the cattle thieves. The sheriff followed the advice and
captured the men wanted. Attorney Ralph Talbot prosecuted the case and the Zicks
and Rickoff was bound over.
The substance of the allegations made by Muntsinger's friends is that
Muntsinger was put out of the way to prevent his appearing as a witness in
the case in the District Court. Coroner Martin was not notified of the
killing of Muntsinger and he claims that the inquest held by the Justice of
the Peace was entirely without authority. HORSE
THIEVES CAUGHT THE THIEVES The Otero County Rustlers Captured n Missouri. A CHASE OF 2,000 MILES They Stole Eighty Horses and Shipped Them to the
East Where They Sold Them--Cattle Agent Wyatt After a Long Chase Locates Them
and Places Them Under Arrest--An Interesting Letter. Denver
Post, 4/10/1895 Page 1.
The secretary of the state cattle inspection board received a lengthy letter
today from its agent, J. N. Wyatt, who announced the capture in Missouri of
the men who two weeks ago stole and shipped from Otero County three carloads
of horses.
The chase which preceded the capture is detailed by Wyatt, and he gives full
particulars of the discoveries he has made in connection with the
transaction.
During the latter part of March Oscar Miller and Mitch Anderson, well-known
in cattlemen's circles in Southeastern Colorado, conceived the idea which
they later put in operation. Throughout the vacant acres of Otero, Las
Animas and Bent counties range hundreds of head of horses and their plan was
to round up a number of these and ship them to an Eastern market. It
was the boldest stroke of wholesale rustling known to the ranchmen in the
immediate vicinity, but it succeeded admirably for the schemers for a time.
Wyatt's letter says that the men, after collecting their booty from herds of
hoses belonging to such prominent owners as Luke Cahill and George W. Hill of
Las Animas, Frank Bingham and J. C. Vroman of La Junta and George W. Swink of
Rocky Ford, drove them to a lonesome station on the Missouri Pacific
Railway. From this point the shipment was consigned to a St. Louis
firm. The lost comprised three carloads and it was pulled out of the
state by the railroad company without even the station agent suspecting that
they were stolen animals.
Miller and Anderson accompanied the shipment and carried their roles as
owners to such perfection that no one at St. Louis divined the true character
of the men who professed to own the consignment. There the horses were
sold for $1,190.75 net cash, which the thieves received after the consignees
had deducted the freight charges previously advanced.
Within a few days after the horses were stolen their loss was discovered and
Sheriff Potter of Otero County was notified. He started on the trail
immediately , accompanied by Wyatt, who is acting inspector for the State Cattle
Board at Las Animas. They arrived at St. Louis too late to immediately
catch the thieves, who had left the city. It was discovered, however,
that the most of the horses had been reshipped to Bardwell, Kentucky, and
thither the officers followed. Upon their arrival efforts were made to
recover the shipment or the value of the animals, but the project was
abandoned because it would be too arduous a legal undertaking.
Returning to St. Louis the officers again scented the trail of Miller and
Anderson, who were followed in their old homes, in Southeast Missouri, and
there they were captured. Inspector Wyatt writes that the prisoners
offered to deliver up the money, but if was not accepted, and he would start
back to Colorado with both men as soon as himself and Potter had sufficiently
rested. "We have followed these fellows over some rough country
and over many hundred miles," he wrote, "and we will not let them
get away. The owners of the horses will lose them, but we have the
criminals. There were eighty head in the bunch. I think the firm
that bought them at St. Louis should be advertised as irresponsible, for its
members showed little will to aid us in catching our game."
The capture is considered an important one by the cattle inspection board,
and examples will be made of the prisoners before the law if they are not
lynched by the incensed owners of the horses. It is charged that Miller
and Anderson have stolen many horses and cattle and disposed of them the same
way within a year. HOWARD, Ida M. BURT, LATE HOWARD. Cruel Joseph Is Without a Wife,
Having First Beaten and Then Willfully Deserted Her. Rocky Mountain News 1/3/1895 In the county court yesterday Ida
M. Howard, the variety actress, secured a decree of divorce from Joseph E. Howard,
also a variety performer, on the ground of non-support and extreme cruelty. Mrs.
Howard, who is rather an attractive looking woman, testified that they were
married December 3, 1892, and that on the very day of the marriage he struck
her in the face, drawing blood and soiling her bridal dress. She also
testified that although he earns from $150 to $200 a month in his profession,
she has had to support herself for the last seven months, and that he has
deserted her. The court granted her a decree, with permission to resume
her maiden name of Ida M. Burt. JACOBS, Sam SNOWDEN, H. They Met as Strangers Denver
Post 3/7/1895 Sam Jacobs and H. Snowden of Clear Creek came
together last evening at Sixteenth and Larimer Streets. Snowden accused
Jacobs of being a horse thief and the latter retaliated by knocking his
accuser down. Office Burke placed both men under arrest. JAILBREAKERS CAUGHT IN DENVER Two of the men Found Yesterday,
One of Them Badly Frozen. Rocky Mountain News, 1/28/1895 Yesterday two of the Boulder
jailbreakers were captured here and they are now in the Arapahoe county
jail. Sheriff Dyer came here yesterday from Boulder and invoked the aid
of the county detectives in locating and capturing the runaways, whom he
suspected were in Denver. Matt Tedford, alias Joe
Littford, was caught on Lawrence, near Sixteenth Street, by
Detectives De Lue, Gardner, Loomis, Millen and Berlew, and he was at once
hustled off to jail. He was captured here some weeks ago upon information
received from Longmont, where he broke jail, and his face is well know to the
detectives. Ed Baker, the
African American escapee, practically gave himself up to the
authorities. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon he limped into the police
station. His face bore traces of suffering and he was scantily
clad. His condition demanded the attention of the police surgeon, who
discovered that the visitor's hands, feet and ears were partly frozen.
Baker gave the name of Sam Jackson and told a pitiful tale of abuse. He
said that he was thrown off a freight train at a point fifteen miles south of
the city at 3 a.m., and that he walked into the city. He came from
Pueblo, he said, where he was formerly employed at a smelter. Surgeon
Wheeler sent the sufferer to the county hospital, and it was later discovered
that Sam Jackson was none other than Ed Baker.
He was accordingly removed from the hospital and Sheriff Dyer thinks that the
other jail-breakers are also in the city, and today a thorough search of the
resorts will be made. JULIAN, Richard & Bridget BOTH MASHED ON DICK. Richard Julian's Amorous
Proclivities Land Him In Jail. Denver Post 1/13/1895 An
exciting episode in downtown society was fully aired before Police Magistrate
Frost this morning when Richard Julian, a hod-carrier by profession, was
arraigned on charges of disturbance and drunkenness. The Julian's--Dick
and his corpulent wife Bridget, alias "Mother Brodus," a fragile
feminine beauty of 200 pounds--have long been recognized as social leaders
among the viaduct colony at the foot of Sixteenth St. Dick and Bridget
scrap daily.
"Mother Brodus," however, has long cherished a viper in her family
in the person of Mrs. Alice Costanzo, a damsel of 25, with a temper that
would please a bandit. Yet she possesses winning ways, and dotes on Dick,
thus arousing the most intense jealousy of her adopted mamma and her husband,
Michael Constanzo. The latter, while objecting to his wife's partially
for Dick, has generally acquiesced, but last night when Dick, much affected
by the growler, courteously requested permission to slumber in the bedroom of
Mrs. Michael Costanzo, Michael's wrath broke forth like a volcanic eruption. Seizing
the man whom "Mother Brodus" would gladly die for and whom Mrs. Michael
Constanzo adores, the Italian-Irishman did him up. After wearing the
ends of his fingernails off on Richard's face, he mauled his eyes until they
were rosy as a bologna sausage. The man's agony caused Mrs. Michael
Costigan to scream lustily, which attracted Officer Doetschman, and Richard
was lugged away. Magistrate Frost, after hearing much spicy testimony, jumped on the husband and fined him $105. Dicky and Alice won't coo again until the Ides of March are ushered in.
KUNSEMILLER, CHARLES DYING IN PRISON Rocky Mountain News, 5/11/1901, Pg 12 Charles Kunsemiller's Friends to Make Effort to Secure His Pardon.
Former Bank Cashier Lying in Leavenworth Prison a Physical Wreck.
Ex-United States District Attorney Whitford Fears That Red Tape at Washington Will Prevent Action Being Taken in Time to Save Life. Renewed reports that Charles Kunsemiller, former cashier of the German National Bank of Denver, now serving a term in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., is a physical wreck and is slowly dying, has again interested his friends in his behalf and a strenuous effort is being made to secure a pardon for him. It is said that steps have within the past week been taken to get an application for a pardon before the proper government authorities before submitting the same to the chief executive. Ex-United States District Attorney Greeley W. Whitford, during whose term of office Kunsemiller was tried and convicted of making false entries in his bank report to the comptroller of the currency, said last night that he had heard nothing of the renewal of the movement to secure a pardon. "Under the rules of the attorney general, " said Mr. Whitford, "an application for a pardon must first be presented to the district attorney who tried the case before it can receive official cognizance in Washington. No such application has been presented to me since the one of two years ago. "When the application for a pardon for Kunsemiller--was--presented to me two years ago I recommended the pardon. Acting on the application the department of Justice at Washington saw fit only to commute the sentence of five years to three years. I think Kunsemiller has something less than a year to serve. The attorney general's office has ruled that no cognizance will be taken of a second application for pardon unless intervening extenuating circumstances furnish a basis for such."
LEADVILLE
ROBBERY CERTAIN OF TWO HOLD-UPS. Two of the Cripple Creek Stage Robbers are Behind
the Bars at Leadville. Rocky
Mountain News, 5/26/1895 Special
to The News. LEADVILLE, Colo., May 26.-- It is
more than probable that at least two of the men who were guilty of the
hold-up at Cripple Creek are behind the bars of the Lake County jail. Deputy
Sterling of Cripple Creek has positive evidence that one of the men captured
by Sheriff Leslie is "Kid" Gray, who is supposed to the man who
struck the stage driver when the bold brigands made the haul. The
deputy and the prisoner were brought face to face and Gray turned as white as
a sheet when he saw the deputy. The men who have been living on the fat
of the land at Carrie Miller's place, are sulky and sullen, and refuse to
talk. "Los Angeles" is believed to be in hiding hereabouts
and the sheriff and his posse are scouring the country for him. MAAS,
William (*see
article under Pardons ) MALONEY,
James (*see
article under Pardons) MANIX,
John J. DEATH OF MANIX Shooting Declared by Detectives to Have Been
Accidental. Rocky
Mountain News, 7/5/1895
The detectives are unable to find
the person who fired the shot that killed John J. Manix at Nineteenth and
Larimer streets Wednesday night. If the act was the cowardly impulse of
an assassin, the guilty party will escape justice for no efforts are being
made to find him. The detectives declare that in their opinion the
killing was an accident, although there is reason to believe it was a
murder. An assassin could have chosen no better time to commit his
crime, for the disturbance created by the shooting of crackers and small
cannons upon the street was so great that a pistol short would not have been
particularly noticed. A close examination of the body yesterday
revealed the fact that the bullet had entered the left side of the neck
behind and below the ear, and had passed thought the neck, the point of exit
being an inch below the right ear. Manix was therefore shot by a person
standing upon the opposite side of the street. MAYOR,
Michael T. ASKED FOR MERCY Special to The News Rocky Mountain News, 11/26/1895 LEADVILLE, Colo., Nov. 25.--Michael F. Mayor, the sporty
young man who pleaded guilty to embezzlement, came into court this morning in
a very penitent and contrite mood. He pleaded guilty and threw himself
upon the mercy of the court. A letter was also received from the wife
of the prisoner; pathetically pleading for mercy. He had, she stated,
three children to support, and begged the judge to be as lenient as possible
with the erring man. The district attorney also spoke a few words
asking for leniency. He said that the actual amount of the prisoner's
defalcation was only about $105. Mayor himself made a brief speech,
stating that his downfall was due entirely to gambling. He was a
collector for the Gold Packing Company of Kansas City. Judge Owens gave
the prisoner one year at hard labor at Canon City. MC ARTHUR, ROBERT W. Mc Arthur Confesses Pilfering Messenger Bound Over to
the Grand Jury. Rocky Mountain News, 9/5/1895 Page 8 Robert W. McArthur, the misguided
Rio Grande express messenger arrested last week for looting letters
containing money in transit to this city, was held to answer before the grand
jury by United States Commissioner Hinsdale yesterday. McArthur made
confession of his guilt to the officers. The letters accompanying the
money were destroyed by McArthur, and the fragments thrown out of the
car. Inspector Waters, however, has succeeded in recovering a
sufficient number of the pieces to complete a chain of evidence against the
accused, which alone without the confession, would make a strong case against
him. While gathering up the scraps
which were scattered over several miles of track, Inspector Walters found
fragments of several other letters, one of which was written by G. E.
McClelland, from the Alamo Hotel at Colorado Springs, on August 26 or
27. To whom it was addressed could not be deciphered, but it was
evidently taken from the pouch rifled on August 28. In his search the
inspector found portions of probably twenty or twenty-five letters, but they
are so finely torn and mixed that it is impossible to put them together so as
to identify them. MC CURDY, D. R. MONTCLAIR'S FIRE BUG. McCurdy Asks For A Pardon From The
Governor. Rocky Mountain News, Page 2, 9/5/1895 D. R. McCurdy, serving six years
in the penitentiary for burglary, has asked for a pardon on the plea that he
is not a habitual criminal and went wrong because of a mania for
gambling. The petition is signed by nearly all the politicians of
Arapahoe County and by Judge Glynn, Sheriff Burchinell and Ed. S. Keith, who
assisted in the arrest and conviction. There is quite an interesting
story connected with the case. It is claimed that the prisoner was
thrown under the baneful influence of an ex-convict of the Iowa Penitentiary,
who frightened him into the commission of the crime. McCurdy was at one
time an inmate of the Iowa institution for a minor offense and his old
acquaintance turned up in Denver at an unfortunate moment. The old
acquaintance was Hamilton, who is now serving time at Canon City. MC NAMARA, Daniel STATE HAPPENINGS Denver Post, 3/6/1895 Colorado Springs--The jury in the case of Daniel McNamara,
charged with assault to rob, brought in a verdict yesterday of guilty.
McNamara was a Bull Hill man and it is alleged assaulted a man in Cripple
Creek and tried to rob him. METCALF, C. B. METCALF'S LOAD Being Too Heavy for Him He Breaks
a Leg. Rocky Mountain News, 1/28/1895 A man giving the name of C. B. Metcalf was having a big time with a party Saturday afternoon and evening with a number of friends at 2404 Larimer Street, and along about 9 o'clock a disagreement arose in which Metcalf took part. At 12 o'clock he presented his left ear to the police surgeon, asking repairs thereto, which were furnished. His ear was in so bad a shape, that he escaped arrest as a common drunk, and the police showed him the way home, and started him therefor. About an hour later an officer discovered him on the sidewalk at Nineteenth and Larimer with a broken leg. He was too drunk to tell how the fracture was sustained.
MOORE, James SNATCHED A POCKETBOOK James Moore Goes to Jail for the Present. Denver Post, 3/23/1895 James Moore was bound over to the district court in $500 bonds n a charge of highway robbery today. Moore is a sneak thief and on Thursday morning he snatched a pocketbook from the hands of Mrs. R. E. McIntosh and ran down Sixteenth Street. Officer Harlow witnessed the act and gave chase, overtaking the thief at Blake and Sixteenth Streets. Moore was unable to give bonds and went to jail. MURPHY, John (*see article under Pardons, ) NORTHROP, Fred (*see article under Pardons) |
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O'DONNELL, R. COWBOY IN TROUBLE
Denver Republican, 1/1/1895 Page 21
He Gets Into A Quarrel And Uses
Brickbats. At a house on Market Street near Nineteenth,
R. O'Donnell, a cowboy and bronco tamer, quarreled with a French woman and
tired to annihilate her with brickbats, coal and other missiles about 9
o'clock last night. After splitting her scalp, O'Donnell rushed into
the street, where he was pursued by Officer Boykin and McCarrick. Boykin,
shot over O'Donnell's head, which brought him to a halt. He must answer to a
charge of assault to kill. PARDONS BOARD OF PARDONS Harley McCoy Must Remain in the Penitentiary Until
the Supreme Court Decides Rocky
Mountain News, 1/5/1895
The Board of Pardons worked up to 6 o'clock last evening without granting a
single application. The case of Harley McCoy brought out a
little ebullition from the governor, in the course of which he emphatically
denied the report that he had stated he would pardon McCoy before retiring
from office. It was found that McCoy's application for a rehearing has
not been dismissed by the Supreme Court and the board refused to enter into
consideration of the application. McCoy's name was placed at the head
of the list for the next meeting. W. H. Davis, heretofore attorney for
McCoy, has withdrawn from the case.
The case of Richard McCoy of Fremont County, which has been detailed
in these columns, was argued at length, and the Board decided to let him stay
in the pen. Senator McNeeley and ex-Senator Beckwith showed that he has
threatened to kill Dr. Dawson and others whom he does not like.
Applications of George D. Burns, John Brady and William Gilmore,
all of Pueblo, and found guilty of burglary, were refused, although a strong
argument was heard in favor of Burns' innocence.
The board refused to look favorably on the application of C. W. Gable
of Arapahoe County. Gable is sentenced for life for murder. His
father, an accessory, was pardoned by Governor Waite in 1893, on
recommendation of the courts.
Richard Thompson, fined $200 and bagged for ninety days by Justice
Harper, failed to excite the sympathy of the board, but the case of Robert
Holmes, as presented by Judge Sale, induced the board to name Drs. Love
and Wheeler as a committee to look into the sanity of the prisoner.
Holmes is a Garfield County man and is serving a twelve-year sentence for
killing his step-father. Richard Lorain, ten years, burglary, Mesa County, has applied for pardon on the grounds that justice has been satisfied |