Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-06-03

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shelter in this clump OF trees. Castillo,
it will be remembered, WAS wounded in
STREET FIGHT
that occurred some three years ago at the
time that Francisco Gonzales Y Borrego,
then chief OF police, shot and killed his
predecessor, Sylvestre Gallegos. Melton
Castillo defended Galegos on that fatal
night; he was also a warm personal and
political friend of the dead ex-sheriff,
Frank Chavez. The night following the
murder of the latter Castillo received an
body-names not given-had limited that |
Castillo's life was in jeopardy. The lat
ter communicated this fact to Dominguez
his uncle, who, as he had often done be-
fore in exciting political times, voun
tered to stand guard about and patrol
the streets leading to his nephew's home.
| This accounts for Domingue2' presence
on the street where the tragedy occurred
| last night.
| LOOKING FOR A FIGHT.
Fifteen minutes prior to the shooting,
according to the statement of B. B. Baca,
Polite Montoya and others, three men
came down the canon road which con-
meets with Cathedral street at the bridge,
and they crossed the bridge probably ten
minutes before the shooting. One of
these men was taller than misconceptions
and wore large white hat Pablo Do
minguez came down a side-street from his
home and must have seen them ahead OF
| him Just before they reached the bridge.
At any rate, he stopped at Juan Sena's
house and asked the loan Of revolver.
He said: 81 see the Borrego boys going
down the street, ahead of me. They may
be up to some rascalty, and l want to be
prepared for them Sena had no gun,
and Dominguez left the house and crossed
the bridge. Dominguez, as subsequent
events proved, had revolver on his per-
son, but it seems he wanted another
one. Presently he met Guadalupe Rael,
WHOM lie STOPPED.
After looking him over Dominguez said;
ooh, it's you-you are alright; you can
pass on" Dominique came along up the
street and five minutes later Guadalupe
heard the firing. He says now that he
did not take particular notice, but he
thinks he observed, in passing, two or
three men standing in the side alley that
leads from Cathedral street into Rven-
J burg's 1t is probable that the parties
who shot Dcminguez were concealed first
in this alley-way and after he passed by
slipped along behind him under the portal
Until within easy range.
ACCESSIBLE CLUE.
Upon hearing the shots Archbishop
Salpointe raised bis bedroom window,
on the second floor of his resi-
dence, and called to his cook to run to-
ward the cathedral as some crime had
evidently been committed there. At that
instant the archbishop saw two men run
through the street. He took them to be
young men, judging from their agile man
ner, and they were of medium height.
Paul Baubien, the cook, was in position
to get better view, and he says there
were three men in the fleeing party and
that one of them wore white hat. They
ran from the body, going toward the ca
thedral. These three men passed, walking
rapidly, through Water street just after
Messrs. Ireneo Chaves, Easton and Crea-
mer had rounded the Fiske corner going
toward the point where the dead man lay.
EAsToN YELLED
to these three men and asked where the
shots were fired. Without turning their
faces the men proceeded down Water
street and one waved his hand saying
lover there by the river" Mr.. Chavez
and his companion were then called to by
some one up tho street and informed that
the dead man was up there. AT first they
thought to follow the three men down
Water street, but the men stopped for a
moment and they concluded it unwise to
approach nearer or follow them. Arriv-
ing at the scene of the killing Stephen
Easton picked up revolver which lay on
the ground very near Dominguez' body
and partly concealed by the dead mans
right arm. 1t was cooked when found,
and one shot had been fired from it. This
seems to make it clear that the
FIRST THREE SHOTS
:, were fred at Dominguez by his assailants
and that the fourth shot, which came
lull lhIolj Nao AICu ny
Dominguez as he fell. This weapon was
turned over TO G. M. Dreamer, and was
kept in his safe during the night. 1t is
before the coroner's jury at present.
, Soon after reaching the body Mr.. Cha
| yes and many others say that they heard
t young man volunteer a very important
: piece of information. Ascension Rael
, and boy named Enrique, who works
for Hon. Amado Chsves, came upon the
scene and Rael said they had met three
, men as they came up Water street and
, that
lie RECOGNIZED ONE
! Of the three as Francisco Borrego This
statement was heard by four or five diff
ierent parties. Enrique, the other boy,
said they had met the men, but as he was
! a stranger here he could notsay who they
were. An hour later Ireneo Chaves went
with Marshal Gray to secure Ascension
Rae's official statement as to seeing Bor-
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