Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-13
HURTADO AND RATEN
70 BE HANGED Oh THURSDAY, ~.
GUST THIRTfRTH.
a Crowded court.room-Both Murdsrers
Address the Court-Full Text Of
Eurtado's Remarks.

Yesterday morning, long before 10 O'clock,
the room of Department One of the Superior
Court was crowded By people anxiots to hear
Judge Armstrong fix the day for executing
the condemned murdsrers-Josaph Hurtado
and Simon Raten.
Al exactly 10 4 N. Judge Armstrong took
the bench and the Court was called to ordar.
Hurtndo had been previously brought into
the room by the Sheriff, and wag seated be.
tween Mr.. Hart and AIR. Jones. his counsel.
The prisoner looked as though be had passed
slesplass night.
The Court ssid he had considered the lsgsl
reasons advanced by counsel why tbe day
should ro5 be fixed for carrying the jadg-
ment into execution. He was of the opiniou
| that the verdict Of the Jury goes to the full
est extent OF the power conferred OF The jury,
and that prosecution by information is due
process Of law" He stated that the Supreme
| Court of this and several other States had
decided these points, and, in a civil case. the
Supreme Court Of the United States bad de-
| cided that State could do away with Jury
trial. The motion was too late, and the
Court thought the points vera not rev OF
important, and therefore the motion would
be overruled.
Counsel excepted 10 the ruling on each
point, and then asked that the day of exc
cation be fixed as far in the future as posi-
bic. II was stated that an appeal would bs
| taken TO the Supreme Court, and in the
event that the day was set for enough off
the matter might be decided by the Su-
prene Court before the day Of execution 81
rived.
The Court held that he could not put it
off longer than sixty days. Mr. Jones then
stated that the prisoner wished TO
SPEAK FOR HIMSELF.
Hurtado arose ard addressed the Court. He
first asked that he Court should grant him
all the time he wished, as he had q great
deal to say. The Court replied that reason
able time would be allowed. The prisoner
then spoke for an hoar and forty minutes.
! His language was foTcjble, end delivered
with much feeling. Sometimes he was quite
eloqusnt at others so pathetic rs to bring
| tears to the eyes Of many strong man, and
many handkeTchiefs were used, osten-
sibly to wipe away Precipitation,
of water during the delivery of his ad.
dress, and chopped frequently for moment
to wipe away tear or get breath. At the
conclusion he was entirely exhausted. Dur
ing the delivery profound silerce psrvaded
! the denaely-packed room. The address vas
/ |
ten by those who heard it. The following is
She full text. geographically reported by
| Win, J. Davis, of
HURTADo's ADDRESS. I
! HurtAdo-Your Honor, sincerely regret and l
| am very sorry that the English language which / !
speak is not of the best and find it almost insult
icient to make myself properly understood, so that
your Honor can fairly and distinctly understand nv
| misfortune. Your Horror well knows that as long ,
as have been in this community have always
managed to carry myself in the best manner in
| which my own sense taught me to- and your Honor ,
well knows that the Mexican people have not got !
| the advantage OF making themselves properly un-
derstood az readily in the English language they
| have IN their own tongue This is 9
ONE GREAT EMBARRASSMENT :
With me at this present moment, and therefore 1
wish your Honor would take into consideration all
my poor language and ignorance because | am
Mexican and do not fully and fairly understand the
English language. / find myself entirely ncaplbe
OF making myself properly understood and
really this ought to be under
| stood. But, nevertheless, your Honor, it is
a battle only for love and home, for honor and ;
loves dear sake, for the perpetuaton of honor and
love for honor, and for the perpetuaon Of the right
path to virtue, for the perpetu ton of the sanctty
| and holiness Of our Cousecrated wedlcek for
the defense Of my dear family for the protect n Of
their honor, for our natural rights in this world
which the law Of God, OF man. and OF reason, which
| gives us the right to claim for the most sacred
| principle, FOR the most sacred cause for the most
sacred night existing in the moral history of civil
! lied man, which the law Of right, and which thu
law OF God and Of man gives the right to claim
Therefore, hope your Honor will take all into con-
sderatiOn, and also want it understood that did
not commit murder for the sake of any gain what
ever, for the sake Of any notoety for the sake of
preserving myself in any way whatever for the sske
of reapng any reward or for the slightest thought
OF committing murder Your Honor it seems that
all the time that went by between the time in which
found the disgrace and my wfes ruin, her seiuc-
| ton by this cruel, false friends
HORRIBLE TREACHERY AND DECEPTION,
And up until the very moment Of the homicide has
all been taken against 1t seems that that time
| has not been considered-that time las all been
turned INTO crime against mc-that time When
really suffered the greatest Of pain and bitter
agony, trying TO suppress my sorrow and shame
which that cruel friend had Inflicted upon me- ard
| the whole of my dear family forgave that man,
| and | forgave my wife, trying to suppress my
| awful sorrow aud shame, and overcome my sad
misfortune, my great los. But it seems that
/ that time has all been taken against me- | !
| that email time was not considered and really !
gave that man chance, an opportunity which LIE
really aid not deserve, and that has been the real
| cause OF my present sad condition. Ny wife was
seduced and ruined in the most horrible and shock
/ ing manner by that cruel false friend between the
months OF July aud September OF the year 1881
anu not until the 18th day Of November Of the
| year, 0n the evening Of Thanksgiving Day-en the | ;
very evening that my dear child Was two years Of :
ase-on the very evening OF my dear childs birth
! day did / discover the horrible deception and ,
treachery Of that cruel false friend and nv wiies ,
ruin. That horrible crime and deception was a /
shocking blow to ne and rendered me almost crazy ;
with shame and SUFFERING 1t was not merely the !
deception, and merely the treachery, and merely !
the seduction, which drove me crazy and drove me ,
wild, but il was that cruel treschery and that de.
cept on, and that seduction that was inflicted upon
my wife, my child and myself, and my own flesh and
| blood that is what drove crazy not that that
deception was merely deception to be heaped on,
but 1t was inflicted upon me, inflicted upon the
whole OF my dear family by that cruel treacherous
man. What drove me to desperation was the shock |
! ing and horrible manner in which my wife told me
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friend which horrible it is disgusting to human.
| ty. Also it was in the cowardly and
BASE AND DEPRAvED MANNER
In which my wife told me that that cruel man had
attacked her on that occasion in which he accom-.
piished his base and beastly purpose upon her
| They blooicurdling they are horrible
Also, it was the constant tormentng me
! the constant torture OF it; the constant keep
ing me In the very presence Of my wifes seduction
the constant keeping me in the very presence OF my
/ ruined home tho constant keeping me in the verv
| presence of my dear chd's ruined future and the
constant t5rnenting me- and the constant tauntiug
| and Fostering with what he had inflicted me | r
with his objectionable crime 1t wss in the horrible
| manner in which that cruel tormented me
daily and every night, and every day. night or dav
also It was the constant provoking ne and the con-
| stsnt tormenting and the constant proyocation
Of it and the constant tautizing me, the constant
| aggrSvating me, the constant crushing my wife
down with it and the constant preventing me and
my wife OF building up our ruined home which he
had SO cruelty and dastardly made; the constant
/.
| shame from the public, to keep it from the columns
| Of the daily newspapers and to prevent its being
aired 10 the whole wide world. Also the constant pre-
venting US OF obtaining any more happiness in this
world which drove Wild ard drove me ray,
| because from the very moment my wife made that
heart broken statement TO me, my life was in one
continued paiD and il was constant apparitiou be-
fore me. because that cruel would not allow It
! to he eX'inguished from my heart and my mind for
ore single instant but constantly kept pursuing and
4 kept aft all the time. This man, your Honor,
was
| PURSUING NE so CONSTANTLY
| That It was eating the very ytals Of my life and
certainly it was driving crazy. Therefore, |
hope that my statement viii not be tedious TO your
Honor, because intend to repeat at least part OF
NY case Therefore, pray you will take mo into
consideration, and will listen and give me tme, be.
cause need time TO express myself and explain my
case. presume that your Ho1or well knows that
there has been vague rumor fOlting this city
Of the most wild charges and assertions having been
made in reference to my case and these charges and
TumoTs incorrect rumOrs | might call them, have
been very damaging to the whole cf my dear family
and myself, because they have been, CREST extent
/ the unhappy cause Of my present condition. They
have really been the unhappy cause of my family
being deprived OF their natural rights In this world.
/ the unhappy cause OF my family being deprived Of
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