Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-25
MURDERERS GALORE.
The Administration of Justice Bag
ging Big Game in New Mexico
A Fine Record for Law
and Order.

county, in the case of the Territory Va. Ro
sario Ring and Celestino Romero, for
killing Carlos Ulibarri on the night of
| September 16 last, a verdict was returned
on Thursday last of guilty as against
Ring and not guilty as against Romero
The territory showed that the death was
the result of drunken brawl. W. R
Garrison represented Ring and W. H
Pope and Alex. Read represented Romero
District Attorney Crist prosecuted with
much ability. Ring will be sentenced
this week as will also Perfecto Padilla, oil
Nacimiento, the murderer of John vi
pond. Thus it is probable that Tierra
Amarillo will have double execution be.
fore many weeks.
WAVE OF JUSTICE.
| Speaking of the prompt and efficient
execution of law and order in New Mexi
CO at this time the Lordsburg Liberal
says:
Last Tuesday the Sheriff of Santa Fe
county executed two murderers, and
holds in confinement four more who are
under sentence of death. In Chavez
county two more murderers ere in jail
waiting the day of execution. In Lincoln
county is another murderer who will soon
meet legal death. Last week in Rio Ar.
riba man was convicted of murder and
sentenced to be harged. This is bloody
list. At no time in the history of the ter.
ritory has there been such An epidemic Of
justice. There are murderers awaiting
trial in other counties of the territory
and the people are watching with interest
to see if justice will be melted out to
them. Grant is one of the most pro.
gressive counties in the territory. II is
one of the few counties, if not the only
one, where the interpreter is not a more
important parsonage at the trial than ia
the judge. An important murder trial ia
due at the term of court now in session, a
case where man went into store and
deliberately murdered the proprietor.
The people of the county are anxiously
looking forward to see if Grant jury
will be as honest as the Chavez jury, as
brave as the Rio Arriba jury, have the
same stern sense of justice as the Lincoln
jury, and be as able and willing to do
their duty as the Santa Fe juries. If
this Grant county jury will average up
with the juries in other counties human
life will be safer here than it has been for
many years. An object lesson is sadly
needed in Grant county.
ANOTHER ONE IN EDDY.
The trial of Agostini Lerma, for the
murder of two Arab peddlers year ago
last April, near the Delaware, thirty five
miles south of Eddy, close to the Texas line,
occupied the attention of the Eddy dis
trict court Monday and Tuesday. Tues
day evening Judge Bantz instructed the
jury to bring in verdict of murder in
either the first or second degree or acquit-
tai. At 2 O'Clock Wednesday morning the
jury returned verdict of guilty of MUIR
der in the the first degree. The verdict
was based on circumstantial evidence.
Lerma had in his possession jewelry
which belonged to the peddlers. He
claimed to have purchased it from some
one, but on the trial failed to produce the
party whom he claimed sold him the jew
elry. A motion for q new trial was taken
under advisement by Judge Bantz.
STILL ANOTHER SHOOTING.
On Wednesday last Tom Rice, resi-
dent of the Mogollon region, started out
with the open avowal to have M. @. Lo-
gan's blood, saying that he had As gun
to get it with. Toward evening he rode
by Mr.. Logan's place and saw Logan
standing out doors. After going down
the gulch couple of hundred yards he
returned and dismounted following Logan
into the house. Logan got the first shot,
hitting his opponent in the neck. The
wound was not considered fatal. From
what the Silver City Enterprise could learn
by telephone communication with promi-
nent and reliable citizens of Mogollon
Mr.. Logan was fully justifiable. Logan
is under arrest but not IN confinement.
The preliminary hearing is postponed to
await the result of Rice's in juries.
SAM D1TTENHoFFER's SLAYER.
It is with no little satisfaction that
Santa Feans learn that the murderer of
Sam Dittenhoffer is to be brought to JUS
tice in Arizona. "Navajo SAM" as Dit
tenhoffer was known, made Santa Fe his
home for years. He has family here.
One of his sons is newsboy for the NEW
MEXICAN and bright lad. Dittenhoffer
belongs to the wealthy New York family
of that name. On Christmas day, 1892,
one Thomas Collins shot AID killed Dit
at his trading post, 1875 miles
northeast Of Flagstaff and near the Nsva-
10 reservation. Collins made his esca pc to
Mojave county, A. T., where he changed
his name to William Arnett. He had been
there about a month when he shot and
killed fellow workman at mill. He
was arrested, tried and found guilty of
and sentenced to Yuma for
ave years.
It was not until aftcr Arnett was 10
Yuma several months that il was discov-
cred that he was not Arnett, but Thos.
Collins, the slayer Of Sam Dittenhoffer. A |
lew days ago Gov. Hughes pardoned Ar
,ett to restore him to citizenship, a. his
lime would expire in few days. A grand
Jury at Flagstaff had in March, 1893,
ound an indictment against Collins, and
Vhsn he stepped out of the penitentiary
! few days ago he was Immediately ar
ested and taken to Flagstaff, where he
viii in December be tried for the murder
# poor Sam Dittenhoffer.