Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-06-28
A CLEAN RECORD.
Sheriff Chas. N. COnklin Shows it and
Will Stand Squarely on the Law
to Retain Office.
The Governors Appointee Fails to
Qualify-That Indictment-Sherif
Conklin Interviewed.

The order of Gov. Thornton published
in yesterdays New MEXICAN was the FORE
runner of the following letter which was
served on Sheriff Chas. NJ. Conklin q few
minutes after this morning:
THE GOVERNORS LETrEE.
To Charles NJ. Conklin, sheriff and ex-
officio collector of the County of Santa
Fe, N. M.
have this day issued an executive or
der removing you from the Office of
sheriff and ex-officio collector Of the
county of Santa Fe and territory of New
Mexico, for the reasons assigned in said
order, copy of which is herewith hand
ed to you.
In addition to the reasons given in the
order of removal, was impelled thereto
because of satisfactory information of
gross misconduct upon your part in the
performance of your duties as sheriff, it
having been shown to me, among other
things, as follows:
That at the last term of the district
court for tho county of Santa Fe one
Emiterio Alarid was guilty of a misde-
meanor upon appeal from a Justices
court, and that warrant was issued to
you thereon for the commitment of said
defendant to jail in case of default in pay
ment of tho fine imposed upon him; and
that, afterward, through your deputy,
said defendant vas discharged without
paying said fine or commitment to Jail,
in consideration of This agreement with
your deputy to vote the Republican
ticket at the then ensuing city election,
as will more fully appear from the Aft
dnvit of said Emiterie Alarid on file in
my Office. That at the same term of
court an indictment WAS found against a
defendant, and warrant for his arrest
placed in your hands, in pursuance of
which you arrested said defendant, and
discharged him upon bail; that you after
ward applied to the clerk of tho district
court for another warrant to arrest said
defendant upon tho same indictment,
giving as your reason for desiring said
warrant, that at the time you discharged
him upon bail, he had agreed to vote the
Republican ticket, and that as he had
failed to do 50, you wanted him re-
arrested.
That in another criminal cause pend
ing in said court one Francisco Gonzales
y Borrego being defendant under n
charge of murder, you sent for Cruz Gu
tierres, the principal witness against said
defendant, and stated to him that you
knew his testimony was sufficient to con-
vict said defendant, and requested said
witness, as matter of friendship to you
to 30 testify on the trial Of said cause as
to save said defendant from conviction;
and that upon the trial of said cause it
became apparent that many of the per-
sons summoned as jurors had been tam
pered with; some of them swearing
falsely, for tho purpose of being able to
serve upon said jury; and that when an
additional venire was issued and placed
in your hands for service, you, in con-
nection with the defendant, took said list
and made inquiries as to which Of said
persons would be friendly to the defend
ant.
That upon another indictment for MUIR
der found against the same person he was
committed to prison without bail, and
you permitted him to attend the musical
concerts given upon the public plaza, to
attend circus, to aid the election regis
tration officers at the last general election,
and to have such privileges and freedom
allowed him as were permitted to no
other prisoners, and such as were forbid
den by law.
That at the June term 1892 and tho
January term 1898, of the district court
for the county of Santa Fe, warrants
for the arrest of defendants in
seven different causes were placed in your
hands, and were held by you until the
present term of court, without any return
being made thereon, although the defend
ants we're we'll known to you, and re-
manned during all of said time publicly
in the city of Santa Fe, and were seen al
most daily by yourself and your deputies;
and part of said warrants have not yet
been returned, and the defendants are
still at large; in one of these cases, that
of Francisco Arce, you returned into
court bond dated the 9th day of August
A. D. 1892, claiming that the party had
been arrested and bailed at that date,
when Jose Maria Garcia, the Justice of
the peace, who took the acknowledgment
Of said bond was not elected until Jan
uary of this year, and testifes that he did
not take such acknowledgment until the
fourteenth OF the present month, after
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