Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-29
THE CALZADA CASE.
Testimony Of Those Who
Saw the Deed.
THE PROSECUTION ENDED
The Defense to Begin this Morn
ing-The Story of the Mur-
der as Related.

The trial Of Francisco Calzada, ac-
cused of wife murder, was resumed
before Judge Cheney yesterday morn
ing. VIM. 1. Foley, attorney for the
defense, requested the Court to take
cognizance of the reports of certain of
the daily papers, stating that they
we're SO grossly incorrect in their re-
ports of the trial that it amounted to a
conteTrt. The Judge stated that he
did nc. lead newspaper reports OF
trials, and, further, it was not his
province to dictate to the press.
However, he would suggest that re-
porters should make careful and accu-
rate reports.
The first witness called was Trini-
dad Morales, who testified: live on
Jefferson street, near Mariana Ballo-
MOS house, not far from Jefferson
gtreet. 1 knew Louisa Calzada. She
Ia dead now, having been killed on
the I'd Of last August. She was killed
by Calzada, who shot her six times.
/ was standing near the door when l
aaw the deceased standing near the
bridge. She turned and Calzada shot
her.
Angelita Alvarez testified: l re-
isde on jefferson street near Alameda.
I have known Francisco Calzada and
his wife for about eight years. ! was
not at home on the day of the shoot
ing. do not think Louise and Fran
cisco lived together during the year
1887. They first lived one place and
then another. / remember that
Francisco came to her place few
DAYS before he killed her, and told
her he wanted a settlement. He
wanted her to ALLOW him to take the
children; che said she would have no
settlement.
Catarino Urias being called, testi-
fed: / lived about eighty feet from
Louise Calzada the day she was shot:
At the time was sitting at the end
Of my house boring hole in scant-
ling, when l saw Calzada 60 up to the
fence where Louise was living. l no
ticed him because l could not make
out who he was. AS he went up to
the gate Louise and woman by the
name of Lenore were coming from
the house towards the gate.
/ heard the man, who was Calzada,
ask for his children. Louise called
to the oldest girl, and she came up.
He took Louise in his arms and kissed
her. l then saw it was her husband,
and continued my work. heard him
ask the child if she did not want to
70 with him. A few seconds after l
heard shot, and looking up saw the
woman lying on the ground. He was
firing his pistol into her shoulders. l
followed to him and said You bar
barian, what are you doing?" He
stopped and came toward the gate. |
went towards him, and he looked
back, and noticing the body of Louise
move, he returned and fred another
shot into her body. He then took the
little child in his arms and started for
the store. called to some men at
the store, telling them not to let him
pass, for he had killed a wo-
man. / then went UP and
took the pistol from him. Some
one said: "Why did you not reserve
q few of those shots for yourself?"
He said, ~ intended to, but re-
pented." l called for a rope to tie
him. After tying him sat down on
= bench by Calzada and asked him
why he had committed such a MUIR
der. He said: ~ did it for my
children" He said he had recon.
mended the children to Father Peter,
and he would leave them with him
/ then took him into the house and
went out to where the body of Louise
was lying. The children were stand
ing around their mother crying. l
noticed three wounds in her shoulder.
Some one had thrown a cloth over
her as she lay on the ground. Fran
cisco and his wife had lived apart for
about two years. He took the boy
and she kept the two girls.
Dissemination When Calzada
came up to the two women at the
gate he appeared very friendly and
shook hands with both. When 1 saw
him while he was shooting he ap-
peared angry and excited.
G. w. Tyler, ex-captain Of the po-
lice, testified: / called upon Fran
cisco Calzada at the city prison after
he was incarcerated and asked him to
relate the facts connected with the
shooting. He said he killed his wife
on account of his children. He told
me that for some time he and his
wife had been having trouble, that
they lived apart, she with another
man and that Louise, his two children
and the man referred to occupied the
same bed. He said he killed her to
prevent his children from growing up
to be prostitutes.
Francisco Urias, being called, testi-
fed as follows: l was at a store on
Jefferson street at the time Calzada
shot his wife. 1 heard several shots
and going out saw him coming toward
me with his little girl in his arms and
. pistol In his right hand. Catarino
Urias was following him and called
to him to surrender. Calzada
said he was ready as he had done
what he intended. They then took the
pistol from him and unbuckled belt
Of cartridges from his waist. saw
Francisco at Louise's house some
time before the shooting but / do.not
know that they lived together. do
not know whether Louise bore good
character or not. I often saw both
men and women go to her house.
Jesus Massat testified: was in the
store near Mrs. Calzada's house at the
time of the shooting. Iheard the shots
and ran out. Francisco was coming oat
Of Louise Calzada's yard with bis child
ii his afme.
n. Bellue s:eing called, testified: !
VA Il the store near by Louise Cal
aada's house at the time of the shoot
ing. When the shots were fred
everybody rushed out. / saw Calzada
coming, with child in his arms.
6cme one called to us to stop him
and not allow him to run off. / went