| Show THE TEXAS he wils outwitted by the betm lo 10 I 1 angeles ri M 1 belias the man arrested wed for murder is still in the county jail and will until the arrival of officers croul texas his was a very neat piece of detective work on the sheriff kays received a letter from the Sli ciff of gialds county tex which stated that nelius was wanted there for a murder four yeara ago and was ta be living in los angeles county no 0 don was sent and the only clew givel was that a binau at san jacinto knew nelius by the letter was turned over to detective harris with instructions to work up the acme with but tile one ineader clew harris went to work lie finally discovered that a mft named nelius lived in the country somewhere near los all geles what direction from the city could not be ascertained wednesday afternoon isac companies companied compa nied by deputy sheriff charles Sen started out on a search for nelius taking the road up the river milligent Dill igent inquiry was made all along the road but no one knew a ruan by that alame finally when they were about to abandon the trail and return to tile city they espied a herd of cattle I 1 11 a field alongside the raad in charge ofa boy they got into conversation with tile boy about the cattle pretending that they wanted to buy a milk cow and asked who was the owner of tile herd the answer was mr nelius they had found their man tile boy was further ques ti oneil and a full of nelius and tile team lie as driving on a trip to toyn was obtained on the pretense of waiting to see him about a cow the detectives then drove back near the city and sec their buggy on of the road waited for nelius to come out on his way home which he usually refi ched about 7 leagon after wagon passed but none aus the description of feliu vehicle until at last just as dark nees had set in they saw a wagon coming which was driven by a man of nelius when it came up to them the two men into the road and asked the driver if file name was nelius ile replied that it was whereupon he was told that he was a oner ile officered ered no resistance but requested the officers to drive to the house of an old negro to whom lie would like to give some directions regarding his farm they com plied to his request and then brought him into the city nelius claims that he killed his mau in self defence the fellow came to Nelius house in his absence in an intoxicated condition and pointed a pistol at his wife and threatened to kill her nelius came home while be was there and tile man made a similar break at him and be killed him nelius also claimed that be had a preliminary trial and was acquitted but that tile grand jury afterward indicted him aben lie left the country ile came to los angeles nearly four years ago and went in to lb dairy business ile has prospered all now owns a good piece aground og round and a fine herd of cattle is u i te confident of being re b en his trial comes off |
