Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-13

additional statement in the newspapers, when you
have time to consider it. do not intend to hurry
YOU, and l do not it as order that you
shall stop; but you have been talking good while
now, aud | see that you are very much exhausted,
and the matters about which you have been talking
are matters that the community ought to under
stand, and the community Will understand them
much better il statement is well prepared and
published. / do not want you to understand that
intend to cut you off from the privilege OF ex-
pressing yourself, and | do not think that anybody
here has ever regarded you as liar or a bad man.
Hurtado l am glad TO hear it, your Honor
The Court have never heard that opinion eX-
pressed OF you.
Hur.ado-I wish you would give me few minutes
longer, and will try to cut this short, and vii ac'
cept OF your Honors offer to have the newspapers
take it down.
The Court-You can do so at your leisure, when
you are more composed than you now.
Hurtado-I presume your Honor well knows that
became possessed of my marrisge bonds legally
and honoraby, and through the channels OF fair
ness aud honor, because on the 9Th day OF Febru-
airy, 1879, took my bride, Susie, into the Catholic
Church 10 this city-Into the house Of God, might
say-and before the sacred altar and before my God
| took vow and a solemn oath, before Father Nc
Closkey, minister Of God, and he consecrated our
wedock. He asked me if l would take Susie for
my lawful wife He asked me if would love and
cherish her, and If would care for her, and
FI WOULD PROTECT HER UNTIL DEATH
Did separate us from one another, and answered,
" will, ;" and from that very moment | was kind
and devoted husband TO NY dear wife and my home
not o counterfeit husband And from that very
moment there is no record that be brought
against me that am ashamed OF. know that
what | say az to my action since the very instant
was married at the sacred altar of my God up to the
very moment OF my bitter degradation cannot be
eontradicted by my career. My career pure
and l will stand on my virtue and honor since
my wedding day, and also from that
- ] hotra 9TH in bf-
world but to work, to travel, to study, or to
hunt, or to struggle for everything and anything
that was necessary and desirable to make my home
little earthly paradise in this world and to make
it happy, and to lead my dear family in the right
path Of duty and honor and to protect them and to
keep them in the right path in the woTld l WIS
blindly wrapped up in an sffectionate love for my
dear wife and child, and loved them dearly that
| could not help but feel attached to them. /
dearly and thoroughly loved my family. l toiled
and worked, apd endeavored by toiling night and
day, summer and winter, in daylight and dark to
keep them by the very sweat OF my brow, aud every
body tat knows me can pronounce the same to be
a fact.
I NEVER CARRIED AN EVIL EXAMPLE TO MY
HOME
never set an evil example to my dear family for
| well knew thst evil examples are great discourage
ments to virtue and, furthermore always endeav-
ore1 to procure the very best neighbOrhood that
could be got by any msans. l always struggled to
place my laflliy most decent ana Respectable
and moral neighborhood, ami all who know me best
can pronounce that to be fact always felt that
it was the very least that could do item to place
my dear family in q neigdborhood where they could
be respected, where they could be honored and
where they could be loved and where they could be
with moral and respectable people. | can, with
safety and pride, say that always did manage to
place my dear fanli ~ with good neghbors, among
people who dearly loved them, and that dearly ad.
mired them, and who believed my wife to be one of
the most devoted and dutiful OF her sex. They all
spoke Of my wife in the very highest character
They would all say tWhat nice wife Joe Hurtado
has" "What a nice child.he has" " How nicely
he treats his family" Those words seemed to 90
right to my very heart. Those words seemed to
make me still more desperately in love with my
dear wife and chi d, and still more proud of them,
10 keep them from want, to keep them from misery,
to keep them from starvation, and no matter what
happened outside never went to my home with
black brow or with any of the ordinary annoyances
Of the day, because always loved to have peace
Jul and restful nome. | always thought that my
home was the seat OF all my earthly happiness in
tits world, 1t was to
THE DEAREST SPOT IN THE CIRCUIT OF THE
SUN.
Ny dear wife and child were all the Joy, all the
pride all the pleasure OF my heart above all other
things in the world. There is nothing that could
surpass the true love which had for my dear wife
and child do not mean me ely a duti vi affection.
proud OF his dear wife and child. Tina; is the love
that mean. do not mean famiii .rity, and / am
speaking plainly, truly and candidly l seri-
ously and truly in love with my dear family. was
perfectly willing 10 struggle on in my Young mar
ried days, to struggle Tor my dear family. My wife
and child never went 10 bed hungry for the want OF
food. They shvered in the cold of winter for
the want Of warm clothes, because had comfort
able home, with plenty Of food with plenty O,
clothing in it, ard with plenty of happiness, as
actually be ieved at that time, and vas ooutented
and thankful TO my God for it all. 1t is tr,:e
poor man, but was perfectly willing to remain
so forever because | was struggling for the aim OF
my life, aud if only could have accomplished that
aim would have been satisfied to remain Door be-
cause roy aim in fe was to lead my family in the
right path OF virtue and honor, co see them happy
and to make them happy, be ause it made me
happy to see them happy. 1t is also true that nay
h me not one that was filed up with gorge US
things, with luXur.es and splendors but my home
was as bright and cheerful as ans in the blocks
around your Honor's home, and herewith | was
and thankful to my God, and also i'm
mensely proud of my home, because l did actually
believe that my wife was oGe of the most noble,
one OF the most devoted and beautiful Of her sex,
and Herewith | was satisfied in this world But
it appears that | was born to encounter msfor-
tunes. 1t appears that come
VERY UNLUCKY STAR has BEEN OVER NE,
And has cast its uniucky rays upon me It appears
that when was born | was to encounter with
these Affections, because when l commenced 20 be-
lieve that could see that beautiful dream OF
Door man. and when | commenced to smile upon
my dear wife and chid-ju.t when had my home
nicely fitted up; Just when il was nicely furnished
Just when my home looked like q perfect little
palace, my dear little wife queen my dear little
baby an angel Just when it was perfect happiness
to me, Just then [ received the crushing blow
which that cruel man inflicted upon me, and upon
the whole OF my family. IL hurts me- 1t goes
right through me. i cannot help it. To make 1t
still more embarrassing, and still more crushing, |
IT ba dpu-rO nj
home, who l believed was my most
intimate and particular frieudthe an l hal
nOurished and fostered in my heart; the man had
helped in need the man h ID helped with money
the man who had my happy home always open to
him !; the man that believed, by his long and many
years Of married experience In this world, was led
to believe that, by that experience, that man knew
what was husbands and fathers love for his dear
wife and child, and that that would prevent him
from ever attempting to corrupt my family and my
home, and bring on wretchedness and misery to my
family between dear family and myself, aud to
corrupt the b. autiful love and harmony that pre-
vailed IN my home, between my wife and myself
tie man that l would not have hesitatsd one single
Instant in my absence from my home, to have left
my dear family in his hands, and that | thought
would do them noble act in OF need, and
would protect their honor in case of need. 1t was
with those very hands that expected that cruel
man would have rendered my family noble act in
my absence, in case Of need Just those very hands
that cruel man used to devour and
SKATER INTO RUIN MY HOME,
The heaven on this earth He ruined my wife, ruined
my dear chds future life, ruined all my peace and
happiness in this world, and burde ed all lives
with sorrow, grief and shame Remember, your
Honor, that it il not the happy ones among Us in
this wide universe that knox what that 4nful and
bitter blow is. to have your dear family and your
home devoured and shattered into ruins by the
treachery OF cD1ol and infamous and treacherous
friend. 1t is not the happy ones among us in this
world that sink into such depth Of degradation
and corruption as the one in which my wife SUNK.
But those whose hearts have been wronged-so
beloved friends, by the treachery of the ones that
they think they oye the best and that they trusted
and that then shattered and tramped upon them
and their loved ones, ike myself those who
HAVE SHED TEARS LIKE DROPS OF BLOOD,
Which have many times-those ore the ones that
are standing in the very jaws of sin, those the
of the bitterness of this world is and then they
know what it is to be constantly toTmenteC ard tor
tured like was ii they constantly kept in the
very presence Of their sad nisfortune-of their
wfe's deduction, of their child's ruined life, Of
their own wronged life and Of their ruined
they are constantly
posed to some frightful fate ike myself
in this world that man will not sink into it, and no
crime so hellish that will not commit it when
he is in that kind OF torture, for it is actually the
most insidious, deadly blow that can ever strike
man here. 1t is actually more than fiesh and blood
can bear, and none but those who have experienced
and have suffered these great wrongs and deep nju-
ries which are inflicted by these traitorous black
cannot begin to picture It out-pcture it horrid
apd evil L. il havond and above iuAoin-