GUADALUPEFailing lo appear at the Guadalupe county term of criminal court to an* iwit a charge of murder, of which hr was convicted in April, 1918 and yr.inird ?. new trial by the supreme court, lohn Middleton forfeited his £20,000 hail bond.Middleton wan convicted of killing Francisco Serna, a deputy sheriff, near Santa Rosa, in November, 1917, and was sentenced to he hanged when the higher court intervened.It is claimed Middleton is in his owl home in Nortfi Carolina suffering with tuberculosis.