Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-24
THE MEXICAN MURDER.

Last evening Coroner Clark concluded the
inquest on the remains of Antonio Aguilar,
who died from the effects Of the wound re-
ceived or Saturday from knife iu the hands
Of Rosslio Ybarra.
Minguel Valencia was the first witness
sworn, and he testified Live on Front street.
Knew the prisoner, Rosalio Ybarrs, for about
two months. Saw the difficulty on Saturday
last. Ybarra came up to Aguilar and
asked him for 80 cents that he owed
him, I turned around, and turning back
the ulsn had been stabbed did not see the
stabbng when he first saw the two men
they were four or five feet apart he was be-
tween six or seven feet from them; did not
zee the deceased strike the prisoner; the de-
ceased said, after he was stabbed. am
cut :" the prisoner walked away, up n street !;
the difficulty occurred on the wharf, and
about ten feet from the water, and on line
with n street saw a pocket-knife in the
prisoners hand WITNESS was shown knife /;
that is the knife the jury examined the
knife, which had blood on the blade]; did
not see the knife before deceased was stabbed !;
saw the dead body last night Of the man who
was cut.
Stanislaus Aguilar, brother of the deceased,
sworn {: Deceased was born near Cape st.
Lucas, Lower California, and his age was 49
Year,. He did not see the cutting atfray.
jose Bsrras, the employer Of the hands on
N-street wharf, testified that he saw Yberra
borrow q knife from a man on the wharf. A
knife was shown the witness which he be-
lieyed to be the one he saw the prisoner Dor
row.
Juan Augustine Pizarro, one of the men OF
the wharf, did not see the deceased strike the
prisoner.
VIM. Arlington and J. I. Barron testified
to the pursuit and arrest OF Ybarra, as re-
Gently detailed in the RECORD UNION.
Domingo Soto found the knife under the
woodshed, where it had been secreted by
Ybsrra
Domingo Arans and Telesfro Castro were
on the wharf at the time the stabbipg took
place, and testified in substance the same SO
the first witness.
Bernariino Macais testified that the knife
used in the cutting affr9y was borrowed from
hin. and identified tho knife found under tee
wcodsaed by Soto as the one no loaned TO
Yb3rra, The witness was than taken to the
police station and identified the prisoner as
the man 90 whom he loaned the knife.
Chief Karcher was called and testified as
to Certain conversations held with the pris-
ous-, and produced the statement which the
prisoner made in the presence of ssveral wit
nesses. q synopsis of which was published in
the RECORD UNION yesterday. The state.
meut was read to the jury, as was also the
statement made By Aguilar before he died.
Chief Karcher said the statement of tbs
prisoner was made voluntarily.
DR.. W. Il. Baldwin made a post-morsem
examination OF the body Of the deceased, and
certified that the cause of his death was from
thu effects of an incised wound received in
the abdomen, the instrument penetrating the
lower portion of TIE stomach.
This closed tbs testimony.
The verdict rendered by the jury was that
deceased came to his death from knife
wound in the bowels and stomach, said wound
being inflicted ty knife in the hands of one
Rosa!io Ybarra, in accordance with the testi-
mony rs given above. The verdict was
signed by the following named as jurors:
John Sheilars, II. G. Chapman, L. I. Crum.
r. a. Fisk, f. Bsnholzsr, Thomas Mccarthy,
S. 3. Jennings, W. L. Smith, A. G. Gardner
The prisoner will be called in the Police
Court this morning, but it Is probable that
tha examination will be postponed for a dsy