Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-05-31


room, but the sheriff restrained him ana
took him off to jail
Official Investigations.
Justice Lucero empannelled coroner's !
jury few hours after the tragedy and
after short session adjourned till yester.
day morning when the taking Of test
mony was resumed. The jurors are
VIM. Deutscher, Facundo Pine, Anselmo
Armijo, Juan Ortiz y Rodriguez, Domin-
go Pacheco. Luciano Baca y Campos.
District Attorney R. E. Twitchell,
N. B. Laughln and Candelario
Martinez conducted the examine
ton of witnesses. :, Up to this. forenoon
some sixteen persons had been examined
and from the testimony the facts above
recited are obtained. Eight or ten wit
nesses remained to be examined at noon
and it is possible that verdict will not
be reached until late this afternoon
Outside OF the above no additional light
has been thrown on the affair beyond the
testimony OF several persons who saw
two men running up Guadalupe street.
toward the university, immediately fol.
lowing the shooting. Mr.. Lewis, the
telegraph operator, whose home is on this
street, opposite Donoghue's,
SAW TWO MEN
running past his house from the direction
of Guadalupe church. These are sup
posed to be the men who did the killing
and later left the church yard, tiringl at
Gold as they reached the cross street.
John Becker also heard these two men
run past the street and Bert Sloan saw
them as they reached the university.
They stopped for moment, peeped
around the corner of the university and
then hurried on, going southeast past Mr..
Hesch's residence. Mr.. Lewis described
the two forms as those OF men OF medium
height, one perhaps little heavier than
the other. If they carried guns he could
not distinguish them. ~
J.P. Height left DR.. IIarroun's office
at 10 10 O'Clock, and rs lie walked across
the bridge he says he saw twenty or
thirty men in and about the church yard
and noticed near the Hesch planning
nun u IIlhpt ~ W iIith WV iioipNo "oAS
attached. The carriage WAS peculiar
affair in that it carried a green, a red and
a white light. He heard one OF the men
in the church yard say in broken Ell
glsh:
ave HAD BETTER WATCH"
The wind was blowing and he hurried
on home.
Caroline Martin told straight story as
to the presence of SoehDchen in her
house from about s O'Clock till after the
shooting. When her testimony was in,
Juryman Pine said he was satisfied
Soehnchen had no connection with the
tragedy and suggested that he be ordered
released from Jail. The other jurors
thought, however, that all the testimony
should be heard before action iu
Soehnchen's behalf was taken.
Caroline Martin said also that there was
a crowd about the street IN the vicinity 'oi
Chavez house most of the evening. 1t
appeared to be made up of boys or young
men. At first they were singing, but
later she looked out of her window and
saw several persons walking in the
shadow of the houses. Several nights
and particularly on Saturday night, she
had seen the same squads about the
streets, and Frank Chavez had told her
twice, once on Sunday morning last, that
"the gang was after him." She did not
know who he referred to by "the gang
but said he had appeared to be uneasy
ever since he had had difficulty on the
plaza some three weeks ago.
1t is probable that Soehnchen will be
released from custody this evening by
order of the jury. Everybody who knows
the man has no hesitancy in proclaining
the charge against him unfounded. Ii
would seem to be
A PHYSICAL lMPosslBILITY
for Soehnchen to have done this, even
had he been sober. He is not only a
cripple, but is paralytic. His condition
is such to-day, and has been for weeks,
that to save his neck he could not have
held the guns that sent those murderous
bullets into Chavez body. Again, if he
could have fred the shots he never could
have run so rapidly away, and the whole
affair, az far as Soehnchen is concerned.
seems to be simply most remarkable
coincidenee-that he should have threat
ened Chavez with death on Sunday after
noon while well nigh demented from
drink and that unknown parties should
have executed this threat, is indeed, most
strange, yet such seems to be the fact in
this instance. 1t is probable that some
murderous wretch who sought to kill Cha
, vez had heard Soehnchen's threats ant
| l. & fhf
, crime in the belief that the blame woulC
surely rest with Soehnchen.
The Possible Motive.
While popular generally, Frank Cha
vez was man who had bitter enemies
among class who would scarcely hest
tate at any act to carry their vengenct
into effect. Not only in politics but ir
, his social relations were these avowet
enemies to be found. Since the tragedy
) motive that would lend plausiblly tt
the cause of this crime has eagerly beer
, sought for. Some have said that there
was "a woman ia the CASE" but thi
3 view is in no wise
! SUSTAINED BY THE FACTS.
, Others, particularly his Democratic
, friends, rather intimate that his death il
} the result of local political feud tina
began with the killing OF Sylvestre Gale
Cos three years ago, and year later re
suited in the brutal murder Of Faustil
: Ortiz, young Republican politician
! All this is possible but not probable
. On the other hand it is Contended b,
some that since Frank Chavez retire.