Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-10-18
In The SUPREME COURT.
The CatrOn and Spiess Cases Still i'll
Progress, But Chief Justice
Smith is Not Present.
NO ACTION IN The CONTEMPT CASES.
Synopsis of Testimony of Two Wit
nesses for the Prosecution
The Court Orders Night
Sessions.

sessions.
The territoria! supreme court convened
his morning at $40 o'clock with Assoc
,iate Justice Collier presiding in the alb
'ence of the chief Justice and Associate
Justices Hamilton, Laughlin and Bantz
present.
Gen. Bartlett called attention to the
of Messrs. Hughes and Nc
Jreight in the matter of the contempt
published in the Citizen and
also reproduced in the New MEXICAN last
and the same was ordered filed
without reading.
The court announced that during the
trial of the charges against Catron and
8 piess sessions would be held as follows:
From $3.50 a. IN. till noon, from 80 till 5
p. m. and from till 9p. m.
TAKING OF TESTIMONY RESUMED.
Porfilia Martinez de Strong was re-
called as witness for the prosecution in
the matter of the charges against Catron
and Spiess.
In response to questions by Mr.. Chill
ders she testified in substance as follows:
Fifteen days ago Demetrio Quintana y
Montoya came to her regarding her testi-
mony at this hearing; he asked her why
she would not testify again as she had at
the preliminary examination of the muir
derers of Francisco Chavez, and because
she would not do as he wanted her to he
struck her blow; no one else had been
to see her on tine subject, but Ramon
Garcia had sent her letter, which she
had given to Sheriff Cunningham; she
had talked with neither Catron or Spiess
since she last testified before Judge Ham
ilton.
On cross-examination by Mr.. Field, she
said that she did washing and ironing for
living; she had not held herself out as
common prostitute; she had not been a
common prostitute at Lamy, Cerrillos
and Santa Fe during the past three years
but did house work for living.
At this point the court instructed the
witness that she was not bound to Grim.
mate herself as to any particular Of
fonse.
WHERE SHE LIVED AT oERR1LLos.
She then continued that she lived neal
the house of Maria Sisneros at Cerrillos
but did not rent Of her; she came the first
time from Lamy with Fred Thayer ant
the second time she came alone; Pedro
Carriage, a deputy sheriff, was on the
train with her; he had no warrant for hel
hot oho Lpa of ho In ioi1 70
the sheriff, then she went alone to Mr.
Crist's Office; she was arrested in SAINTS
Fe in 1892 and was found guilty by {
justice of the peace of being a comm or
prostitute and being drunk; she took ar
appeal to the district court, but did no,
know whether the Judgement of the
lower court was affirmed or not; the
second time she came to testify before
Judge Hamilton she did not come on 6
writ of the district court, but voluntarily
she denied being locked up in jail from
l. till O'Clock on that day before goine
to see Mr.. Crist; she thought that she had
testified to all that Garcia, Catron, Spiest
and Quintana had said to her; Quintans
circus at Lamy; she knew Carriage was
a deputy sheriff and supposed Fred
Thayer was deputy because he had an
order from the court; she did not tell
Catron and Spiess that
SHE WAS AFRAID
of being arrested, but they told her she
was going to be arrested and told her to
hide; she went to Catron's Office because
Fred Thayer took her there and
not because she was afriad of being ar.
rested.
On redirect examination she sal
that she had been married to Charley
Strong, and lived with him as his wife
till he died.
The names of the witnesses subpanaed
on both sides we're then announced to the
court and they were excluded from the
court room.
Ramon Garcia was next called to the
witness stand. He said in substance that
he had lived in Santa Fe all his life; had a
conversation with Catron on September
20, 1896; Catron sent Fred. Thayer to call
him (witness) to Catron's office; Catron
asked him if he could go to Lamy to
Porfiria; then Catron warned him to look
out for Cunningham and Carriage; Cat
ron gave him paper to take to Porfiria;
Catron gave him SIS and told him to en-
deavor to get Porfiria to sign the paper.
The paper was introduced and identi-
fed by witness as the one given to him
by Catron and he (witness) afterward
gave the paper to Sheriff Cunningham.
oATRoN TOLD HIM WHAT TO DO.
The witness continued that Catron had
merely told him to get the signature of
Porfiria Martinez de Strong to the paper
identified.
Regarding his visit to Porfiria before
the preliminary examination of the Dor.
regos, the witness said that he went to
the woman at Cerrillos and told her that
Mr.. Catron wanted her to come to Santa
Fe with him and Jose Dominguez and he
took her to Mrs. QuintanR's house
Neither be nor Dominguez we're deputy
sheriffs at that time.
Recurring to the effort to procure the
signature of Porfria to the affidavit, the
witness said that when he returned from
Lamy he sent Mr.. Catron word that he
conld not find Porfiria; afterward Catron
saw him and asked him if he was "play.
ing with him" and why he had not found
Porfiria; Catron urged him to 60 again
after Porfiria; on another occasion Cat.
ron sent for him and asked him what he
had done with the affidavit and he told