Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-11-08

truStS Dy OHerS OF money. we
pass over this, as bad as it was, be-
cause it has been done before, and
this case is much more grave. He
dined with Mr.. Fiske, and they
started to go to Silver City togeth-
er. At Lamy Mr.. Fiske went into
the waiting room, and Mr.. Vigil
was walking outside waiting for
the train. Three men, named
Melton Madrid, Marcos Castillo
and Hipolito Vigil came up and
carried him by force to a house
and kept him there all night.
These men falsely personated of
ficers and when Mr.. Vigil asked
for their authority they pulled out
a paper, pretending that il was an
order of District Attorney Twitch-
ell. They carried him to Santa
Fe and held him as a prisoner
until the afternoon on Thursday
when Gen. Hobart discovered him.
These are briefly the facts of this
dastardly outrage. 1t is not an
ordinary crime against an individ-
ual, but against the whole people.
Mr.. Vigil represented a great
county. Yet his age and charac-
ter and high representative capac-
ity availed nothing to protect him
against the violence of the men
who pretended to arrest him. They
should be punished to the very
fullest extent of the law, and their
names held in execration forever.
Leave no stone unturned to
bring the criminal to justice. The
party can afford to spend its last
dollar in order that its representa-
tives may be protected from out
rage on the way to its conventions.
For outrages far less than this
parties have been destroyed by
uprisings of the people. The
safety of the republican party is
especially involved now as it is
understood that the two principal
kidnappers are actually holding
Office under it in Santa Fe. Let
the legal investigation be prompt
and thorough, and the punishment
swift and severe.
In another article in the same
issue, the Citizen conclusively
fastened the responsibility of the
kidnapping and falsg imprison-
ment above recorded upon Tom
Catron, showing beyond a perad-
venture that Catron could not have
been elected as a delegate over
Gov. Slower if the venerable dele
gate from Taos had been present.
The article closes as follows
The whole matter turned on the
Taos delegation ON the first day
and when it could not be bought
it was kidnapped. That was a
desperate move, but necessary tc
defeat Slower, and it was under.
taken without compunction. How
long will New Mexico endure rep.
resentation by kidnapping?
When the editor of the Citizer
penned the manly words just
quoted he little dreamed that in
six short months he would be the
chief apologist, defender and sup.
porter (for delegate to congress-
of the man responsible for "thii
dastardly Kidnapping outrage
nor did he imagine that =" the two
principal kidnappers," (Catron'i
willing tools, then actually hold
ing office under the republican
party at Santa Fe, instead of being
punished to the full extent O
= the law" and having their names
, held in execration forever" woulC
continue the petted and pampereC
> favorites of the republican part!
in Santa Fe county. Possibly th,
) memory of the Citizen is failing
} possibly it has forgotten the kid
5 mapping episode; possibly it's edito
Q needs to be reminded of his out
], spoken utterances on the subject
!. The Sun is not discussing natter
s of that kind. 1t simply reproduce
y the foregoing extracts from a
I April number OF the Albuquerqu
e Citizen for the purpose of exhibit
] ing the local situation in Santa +,
! county. We find Hippolito Vigi
d officiating as a republican iustic
d of the peace in the 3rd precinct q
: Santa Fe, and the republican car
e didate for coroner on the republ
n county ticket, and an all aroun
y thug for the Uatron- Conklin RIM
n We find Marcos Castillo officiatin