Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-23
CHAVEZ MURDER TRIAL.
Sheriff Cunningham and Ike Novel;
Testify for the Territory on
Rebuttal.
Patricio Valencia's Evidence Pro-
nounced False - Strychnine and
Cartridges-Nowell Contra
diets Catron - Latter's
Discrimination.

The features of the thirty-frst day of
the trial of Francisco Gonzales y Bor-
rego, Antonio Gonzales y Borrego, Lau-
reano Alarid and Patriotic Valencia,
charged with the murder of Francisco
Chavez, on Sunday night, May 30, 1892,
were the sworn statements of Sheriff Gun
ningham and Ike Novel; for the territory
on rebuttal of evidence heretofore given
by Patricio Valencia and Mr.. Catron.
VEST ERDAY AFTERNOON.
The session of the court yesterday
afternoon opened with testimony offered
by the territory bearing on the state
ment made by the defendant Francisco
Gonzales y Borrego to the effect that
the witness Domingo Apodaca had writ
ten him an exculpating letter, while in
Jail. 1t will remembered that Gonzales
stated that such letter was brought
from the Apodaca woman to him by Els
tanislado Sandoval and was subsequently
burned by Cayetano Garcia, the jailor.
Estanislado Sandoval was first put or the
stand. He denied that he knew the Apo
daca woman and said that he had never
brought such a letter to Gonzales. On
cross-examination Mr.. Catron elected
the fact that witness was accused of COM
plicity in the Rael and Douherty murder
cases over in Mora county. Domingo
Apodaca was next recalled and stated
that she had never written such letter
as Gonzales described nor did she iu fact
know Sandoval, the party through whom
it was alleged the letter was sent. Final
ly Cayetano Garcia, the jailor, was intro
duced and stated that he had never
burned any such letter. MIR. Garcia
further testified as to statements made
by the defendant Patricio Valencia at the
Jail. These statements we're given at a
conversation at which Sheriff Cunning
ham was present and were fully set forth
in Mr.. Cunningham's evidence this morn
ing, which appears below.
Following Tailor Garcia's evidence, a
sister of Domingo Apodaca was put on
the stand with the view to testlfying as
to what occurred at her home in Las
Vegas on the occasion of the visit to that
place of Charles A. Spiess and Marcelino
Ortiz week before last. She testified that
Spiess talked with Domingo in separate
room for fifteen minutes, while witness
and Marcelino Ortiz amused themselves
elsewhere. During the time the two last
were together she testified that Ortiz
played the guitar or, ss witness put it by
way of correction on cross-examination,
scratched it,"
The afternoon session concluded with
testimony from Miss Crane, who had Of
tciated as stenographer at the former
trial, as to the testimony of Nicolas Gu
tierrez, Isabel Valencia, Charles M. Conk-
lin and others. Her testimony, based
upon her notes of that trial, showed a
number of very important variations be-
tween the testimony given by the wit
nesses at the former and at the present
trial.
TESTIMONY THIS FORENOON.
At the incoming of court this morning
Perfecto Gonzales was called to the wit
ness stand by the territory on rebuttal.
The witness testified that he worked in
the charcoal ovens at Lamy, but his
family lived in Santa Fe; in February,
1894, he worked at Cerrillos; was with
Francisco Rivera at Cerrillos from 8
o'clock until 10 or IL O'Clock on the
night of February 2, 1894; they we're to-
gether about town visiting saloons and
other places; went with Francisco Rivera
and Dolores Romero to the house of
Quirina Martinez that night; there were
several men, one boy, Quirina Martinez
and another woman in the house when
they reached it; they we're altogether in
one room and he and Francisco Rivera
there about ten minutes; they
we're all talking, but nothing particular
was said; Francisco Rivera said nothing
at the house of Quirina Martinez about
The pending murder trial, and nothing
about having testified in the case; Rivera
said nothing to Quirina Martinez or to
anyone else there that Sheriff Cunning
ham had used a pistol, turned him out of
Jail and gave him money for testifying
against Francisco Gonzales y Borrego
and the other three defendants in this
,ase and that he knew nothing about it;
witness and Rivera went up town from
he Martinez house and separated to 90
20 bed about 10 or IL O'Clock at a saloon
about $50 yards away from the Martinez
house.
Cross-examlnation disclosed nothing
except that the witness was under indict-
nent for assault with intent to kill Fran
,isco Garcia, and that witness and Fran
,isco Rivera took several drinks of beer
together on the night of February 2, 1894,
n Cerrillos. Touching the indictment
witness said that he fred a shot at Fran
,isco Garcia in the protection of his wife
md family from the insults and abuse of
Garcia and that he would have fred ten
hots at Garcia at the time If he had had
IKE NOwELL RECALLED.
The district attorney categoricalIy
Questioned NOVEL; as to the conversation
between him and Mr.. Catron at the peni-
entiary regarding the testimony he
Nowell would give In the pending trial,
md Novel; pointedly contradicted nearly
III of the conversation as testified to by
Mr.. Catron. The witness denied that Mr..
Jatron said to him that he had made two
contradictory statements, one before
Judge Seeds and another to Mr.. Spiess
this case; denied that he told
Mr.. Catron that he knew nothing abont
he case; denied that Mr.. Catron had said
about witness having made two
statements; denied that Mr..
Jatron asked him which of his statements
vas correct; deEied that he told Mr.. Cat
on that his statement before Judge Seeds
vas incorrect; denied that he said any