The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-03
YGNACIA O0RTEz.


This morning the trial Of Ygnacia Cor
tez. for murder, was continued In the
District court, amid a large number Of
spectators. The first witness placed on
the stand was j. D. MoCoy, whose tes-
tlmony was us follows: ~ live on Nueva
street, and have lived there for about Is
months. did not know the deceased IN
his lifetime. Know prisoner when see
her. but not personally. ! know about
the time StanifOrth was found dead,
but / do not rocollcct the exact date.
know that prisoner lives on the same
street / do. There are two houses. She
lives in the rear. The distance from the
front TO the rear il about 10 or 80 yards,
and the lot is almost 80 or 10 feet wide.
The only obstruction IRON the mouse on
Nueya street to the rear house Is cross
partition wall between the two; my lot
IL next to that OF prisoner; ON the east
there is fence all the way, part oil II u
nm upright plank fence and part OF II Is
"A picket fence. One can see through
the picket fence; IL IA not close together
Witness was ut this point handed "A ina
! gram, showing the relative positions OF
! the two houses, and he marked the va
rious points and explained them 60 the
| Jury. | went to bed the night before
| Stanirorth was found dead, about 10
| o'clock, but did not go to sleep immedi-
| ately: / went to bed on the gallery,
| and my son was also on there;
he is about - years Of age,
and was asleep when went
TO bed. Before | went to sleep, | heard
some voices. talking. about the stair
way of prisoners house. ! recognized
prisoners voice, talking, on the lower
! gallery, down stairs. could not under
stand what the talking was about. diu
not pay attention. she was talking IN
English part of the time, and also In
spanish. Just happened to be walking
| around the corner when ! heard 1t. II
was some time after | laid down that /
went to sleep, and dld not near any
noise in that east room. | could not say
whether noticed there were any lights
In that upstairs east room. | woke up
next morning about sun-uu, ! was MOI
awakened by any noise. Was IN the act OF
getting up setting on the side Of the BED
with my face fronting south. In that
position when / looked out straight 1
could see the house on Nueyo street. |
was dressing myself when heard three
shots fired in succession. | saw smoke
coming out Of the windows In that east
room, the one on the gallery, and imm' =
diately afterwards | saw lgnucis come
down stairs, the stairs that come ON 10
the lower gallery, and down by lhat
cross fence; she came screaming and hol-
lowing, and went back screaming. she
was going pretty rapidly, she stopped IN
the yard about 70 feet from me anu com
meuced throwing up as If she
WAS sick. asked her il
she was shot and if she need
any assistance. shouted to her
twice, "are you shot, but she said moth
ing: spoke again, but she did not take
any notice. As soon as she got through
throwing up she ran upstairs again
screaming. While she was down there
it seemed to me | could hear sort o.
grooming, it seemed like man in JUS
tress from the room. She run upstairs
and after that heard the last and iourtt
shot. | suppose she had about time Il
get there. / don't know what distance
about 30 or 40 feet. According to my es
timntion there was sufficient time TO
her to have entered the room. | sup
pose two or three minutes hat
elapsed between the third ant
r fourth shots. / do not recollec
+ whether saw any smoke whei
the fourth shot was fired. There wa
y smoke Just oOzing out OF the Stats OF tn
, window after the first three shots. Abou
Y ] the lllnt lnt last huoA Nhn NlNh 'N'l y
r thing was still rs death; you could heH
. nothing and thought 1t was strange.
: heard the noise spoke OF before lmme
: diately succeeding the fourth shot
There was nothing to ObstruCt my vieN
Of this lot but the cross fence. ] cOul
see into the hallway II little piece; COul
see half W: lost sight OF her whe
$ she had &C. upstairs, half way. | di
/ not see any one leave except the pri
: oner from the time of the firing OF IN
first and last shots. ! did not see an
= one In that yard except the prlsOne
e This was Just about sun-up. lklOw Il
i colored boy who was waiting there q
e prisoner. | do not remember seeing hi
: there ut any time during the firing.
II remained standing where | was abul
% three minutes after the firing of Il
: fourth shot. 1 did not see the prison
come down again after the firing OF Il
fourth shot nor heard her scream aft
that. The grooming had stopped.
ia was not there when the officers ca ne.
~ Cross examnation-My son was slee
Il ing with me on thar gallery. My wi
i was in the house fronting on Nue.
al street about four yards from where
G, was sleeping. The shooting W
m done before my wife cam
re NY son was sleeping on o
1t bed and | slept In another
n could not say whether he was aisle
.y when ! saw the prisoner run down-stal
an after the first shot. ! do not rccullt
IL, when first noticed my son after I
to firing Of the pistol. Ii is about 10 fc
from my bed to the picket fence. ] d
not put on any OF my clothes until ati
the tlring was over. | listened to {
firing and then put them on, ] was +
ting on the bed fronting south when E
IL ran down stairs after the first shot,
- called to her from there asking i
~, what was the matter II she was sh'
'" spoke to her when she was runnl
IN back There are some mulberry ire
NJ in the corner Of that lot. The
Il, is one mulberry tree nearly {
H. poslte me. A little further doy
T., there is another one, may be two. The
sit mulberry trees were then In full lie
~ The euRt room where deceased was iou
az has solid rock wall. | could not /
Is prisoner through any window; only
the staircase. saw her 60 up the ste
and then | lost sight of her. When +
came down stairs she disappeared ir'
, my view on account Of that big fen
NJ and she returned in about half a miuu
nv Redirect: When | heard the first 81
llu Hooked towards the house, and | CO
M tinued to look until the defendant ca
lls down stairs. think she was dressed
US, a Mother Hubbard of a light color.
~ Mrs. Mccoy, the wife Of former "
VI ness, was next examined. She testll
e. to hearing three shots in succession
&C. fourth, hut she did not see anybo
20 She heard some screaming or oryi