Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-01-13
GATHERING THEM in.
Atilan0 Gold Arrested for Completely
in the Chavez Affair--The In
quest-SOme Plain State
ments of Fact.

Atilano Gold, who was with ex-Sheriff
Frank Chavez on the bridge when he was
killed and protested to be the friend Of
the murdered man, was arrested at the
Arcade about 7:3Oto'clock last evening by
Deputy Sheriffs Tucker and Otero. When
invited to elevate his hands heavenward
he obeyed without murmur and with a
promptitude that almost
STARTLED BY-sTANDERs.
All agree that they never saw a man
with larger arms than he exhibited.
The charge against Gold is that of
guilty participation in the assassination
of ex-Sheriff Chavez, essentially the same
as against the Borregos and three othe r
persons now in the county Jail awaiting q
hearing before Judge Seeds on Monday.
Gold had been hiding out since the first
arrests were made. Shortly after he came
out of concealment he was gathered in on
warrant in the hands of Deputy Otero.
The six persons under arrest for COM
plicity in the murder of Frank Chavez
are heavily in irons and carefully guarded
at the county Jail. They will not escape,
but they will be hunanely treated by the
Jail officials.
NOT FRUITFUL INQUEST.
Touching the ex-parte inquest jim the
matter of Hipolito Vigil, deceased, after
examining DR.. Harroun and the four
other witnesses named in these columns
yesterday, Justice Alarid decided to defer
further proceedings until 2 O'Clock this
afternoon. He was prompted to take this
action by the fact that the district attor-
ney was not present, being detained at
the federal building by important bust
ness. The Justice says he will resume
and conclude the hearing this afternoon
even if the district attorney is not pres
ent.
SOME FURTHER CONNECTIONS.
ut matters not who Vigil was, and what
he was charged with. The fact remains
that he was given no chance for his life
Il X
"The Citizen is informed, for instance
that three men indicted for brutal muir
der of boy some time ago, were admit
ted to $4,000 each bail, and that the bail
is worth nothing, and that this fact
is we'll known in official circles in Santa
Fe."
Thus the Albuquerque Citizen speaks
editorlally. There is not an atom OF
truth in this.
Az has been so often stated in the New
Mexican Vigil was given every reasonable
chance for his life, but he courted death,
and at the same time practically acknowl-
edged his guilt, by firing first upon the
sheriff's posse. II
As to the second paragraph the above
quotation, the Citizen is quite as much in
error.
Last spring three young men, Eluterio
Padilla, Desiderio Gallegos and Emeterio
Garcia, were arrested for killing Marco
limo Vigil, companion of theirs, in a
drunken brawl.
After their preliminary hearing Judge
Seeds fixed their bonds at 81 900 each,
subject to the approval of the then
sheriff, Chas. M. Conklin. That officer
approved the bonds and released the men
from jail. Everybody understood at the
time that the bond thus approved was
practically worthless. When Sheriff Gun
ningham was appointed by Gov. Thorn
ton to succeed Mr.. Conklin one of his
earliest official acts was to rearrest these
accused and hold them until they gave a
new bond. Accordingly, they prepared
the bond on which they are now at large,
and it was not approved by Sheriff Gun
ningham until Mr.. Epifanio Vigil, guar
dian of the murdered boy, had been called
to the sheriff's Office, required to examine
the bond, and say whether or not he
deemed it sufficient. These are the bald
facts in this case.