Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-11

ish law, not altogether unlike the proc.
esses Of the French criminal court,.
and various yagabonds and smspiciot.i
characters were taken into custody.
These prisoners wero kent under guard
Of several soldiers. and they were con.
Quoted to the alcalde for examination by
a corporal The dog Of the murdered
man had been given such good care that
his Strength was fully restored. and 10
had been brought 10 The scene of ex.
animation and tied within the room.
IL was the ohservant and refoctis
clerk Of the court who hrst noted tina.
the animal was growing. rnllculy and
fesentfuily, - one Of the prisoners stood
before the sloalde. whose attention he
called to the fact by writing q few lines,
IN which he suggested that the prisoner
DO returned 10 confinement until tho
matter should be discussed. According.
~, Don Manuel Roquena sent away the
wretch bringing there, and the guard
was directed 10 bring In another prisoner
after n few minutes. Again the dog dis
played marked anger and hostility, a. he
did nj each now installmeni Of suspects.
Let us try an experiment" said Don
fgnacio. "Will you arrange. DON Man
uel. 10 have another guard bring IN, one
by one ia turn. the men who have Just
been before u.s.
This was done. but the intelligent ami.
NAL, q few moments since 20 savage,
now only looked inquiringly At each ar.
rival, but made no demonstration Of
cnnity. Then a prete1t was found 20
call back tho corporal who frst had
brought in tho prisoners. Ito was one
SaL tgo Liuarcs. 4 slender, dark fellow,
with n youthful, almost boyith counte-
nance and ingratiaiing manner. lie
was Unanswered near tho dog. and no
sooner had he come within reach than
tho masiii, bnstling aud snnrling fierce.
", eprang upon him and would have
throttlad him had not those present
torn Linarcs out Of his fangl. Trembling
and ashen was the fellow. yet Full u
self possession. and fcigniug wonder and
indignation whom taxed with completely
In the murder. lilo had no, even been
In the pueblo, he declared. on the night
Of the crime; IL was bis day oil from
service. and he had been nj the mission
with his mistress, one Eugcnia Valencia.
Nevertheless. he was az once sent 10
jail. and that incomunicado; that IL
TO aay, solitary confinement. whcru no
one could sec or communicate with him.
Aud send for Ia Eugcnih, instructed
the aloalde.
This Valencia woman came Of very
criminal stock. aud she and her family
were At the bottom Of vast percentage
Of the disorder that bofcll IN those DAYS
In Los Angeles. Tho brothers were
scamps aud practically bandits, fitting
sous Of deprayed parents. Another sis.
ter lived for many years In Illicit bonds
with William W. one u the wealth.
lest Of the foreign residents. whom IL
were hardly kind 10 indicate moro clear.
ly, since his descendants still live among
rs. After she had borne this man three
children his jealousy Of her fragrant IN.
hdelAiea led 10 n sosndalous shooting NJ.
fray, notwithstanding which he would
still have married her. hut that tho
authorities banished her from the pueblo
As measure Of public safety. amp she
died some yeats later at MaIailan, whore
w, because Of his vested interests
here, could not follow her. He sent,
however. for her children. and educated
them with his legitimate children, he
having married meanwhile one Of tho
Lugos from Santa Barbara. OF such
n ttrain-Icsoluie, bold. inscriptions
was the woman whom Manuel Rcquona,
the alcalde. sont 10 fetch from San
Gabriel.
His messengers took her all unaware.
She had not even heard that tho murder
was discovered, and NJ when they had
secured her, tho officers searched her
dwelling and found bundled away there.
In large quantity Of the effects aud
clothing plundered from the murdered
German. The officer who arrested her
did not fail to impress upon her the sg.
nilicanco Of this dad aud IT, tendency 10
criminate her. Thus when she arrived
at the courtroom sho was qualdng. full
of terror aud an abject conviction that
her own liberty and her own life were In
peril. Under tho stress of this fear, and
almost without waiting to bo questioned,
rho hAstened, when brought before tho
aloalde, 10 declare that sho had been In
tho company Of the men who had killed
tue German and that she had been n
witness TO his Staying. She was Of
course put into confinement incomuni.
cado.
Santiago Linars was now told that
one of Ills accomplices had confessed, aud
had named him m the chief offender
Upon this. spurred not more by fear thar
by anger and vindictiycness, he made A
declaration duplicating Asencio Valen.
ella. brother Of Eugenia. aud another
bad character Of tho pueblo. one Jose
DuArte, whom no had, he said, accom-
panied upon that fatal evening, not be.
Ing aware OF the purpose Of their eater.
prise.
The two men he named were promptly
arrested, and they, when they learned Of
their accusal, began a perfect aege OF
cowardly but forocious prutestat!ons and
each alleging his own limo.
renee while inculpating the oth,rs The
discrepancies between their statements
were carefully noted, aud the discordnni
witnesses were brought together In nc.
couance with that feature os tho Snan.
lsh law known "a "coniroutation." These
comparisons OF statements resulted In
the elimination OF much subtrusiye false.
hood and tho establishment Of many
facts upon which they were all agreed.
Thus il was proved that tho gun bar