Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-29
CHAVEZ MURDERERS CONFESS
PatriciO Valencia and LaureanO Ala
rid Weaken and Tell the Truth
About the AtrOciOuS Crime.
Professions of Repentance and Admis-
sion That Verdict was Just-Etforts
of Borrego Brothers to Escape
Thwarted-Deeply Inter
esting Story.

esting Story.
Murder will out. Blood stains may be
hidden for tune, but they can not be
obliterated. Patriclo Valencia and Laure-
ano Alarid, convicted and under sentence
of death with Francisco Gonzales y
Borrego and Antonio Gonzales y Borrego
for the murder of ex-Sheritf Francisco
Chavez, on the night of May 80, 1892,
have confessed their guilt, and named
the other two men convicted of the
crime and Hipolito Vigil, deceased, as
their active associates in the awful affair.
STORY OF THE CONFESSIONS.
About the middle of last week, Patriotic
Valencia, who is confined in cell at the
county Jail with Laureano Alarid, noti-
fed Sheriff Cunningham that he would
like to see Tomas Smith, Francisco
Griego, and Mariana Sena, cousins and
friends of his, and Marceliro Garcia, in
whom he reposed great confidence, as he
had something particular to say to them,
and asked that they be brought to the
Jail to see him, adding that he wanted to
tell them the truth about the killing of
Francisco Chavez. $50
iii Iii com pliance with this request, the
parties mentioned above we're soon after
brought to the jail by the sheriff and to
them Valencia confessed that he was one
of the persons guilty of the killing of
Francisco Chavez.
Subsequently Valencia indicated wish
to talk with the district attorney, and, on
last Thursday afternoon, that official
went to the jail, when Valencia made to
him complete statement of the facts
connected with the murder of Francisco
Chavez, and at the request of Valencia
this statement was reduced to writing,
signed and sworn to by him as follows:
vALENoIA's CONFESSION.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO,
County of Santa Fe. CO.
Patricio Valencia, being duly sworn,
on his oath, says: l am the same Patriotic
Valencia who is one of the defendants in
the case of the Territory of New Mexico
VS.. Francisco Gonzales Borrego, An
tonic Gonzales y Borrego, Laureano Ala
rid and Patricio Valencia, charged, tried
and convicted of the murder of Francisco
Chavez, in the city of Santa Fe, on the
29th day of May, A. D. 1892. 1t is true,
as charged in the indictment in said
cause and as found by the jury in its
verdict rendered on the 29th day of May,
A. d. 1895, that am guilty, as one of the
parties, of the murder of said Francisco
Chavez, who was killed on the southern
end of the Guadalupe bridge, in said city
| of Santa Fe, between and 10 O'Clock
during the night of the 18th day of May
1892. The persons there present and
then taking part in the murder of the
said Chavez were Hipolito Vigil, Fran.
cisco Gonzales y Borrego, Antonio Con
zales y Borrego and I, Patriotic Valencia
the three last named persons being the
same persons who are defendants in the
above named cause.
| WHERE LAUREANo ALARID WAS.
"Laureano Alarid, the other above
named defendant, was not there present
at the time of the commission of the
murder of said Chavez, the said Leureano
having left the said southern end of said
Guadalupe bridge to go up town about
thirty minutes before the murder of said
Chavez. The said Laureano Alarid was
acting as spy on that night to watch the
movements of the deceased Chavez, and
had only been at the said southern end OF
said Guadalupe bridge about twenty or
twenty-five minutes of time just before
going up town, as above set forth. The
said Laureano Alarid we'll knew about the
proposed murder of the said Francisco
Chavez, we'll knew that the said Francisco
Ganzales y Borrego, the said Antonio
Gonzales y Borrego, the said Hipolit'o
Vigil and I, Patriotic Valencia, we're then
and there lying in wait for the purpose
of numbering the said Francisco Chavez,
and he left the said southern end of said
bridge to 60 up town, as above set forth,
at the direction of said Francisco Coma
les y Borrego, who told said Laureano
Alarid to 60 up into the business part of
town and ascertain where said Francisco
Chavez was and to come back to said
bridge and report to us, the said Francis
CO Gonzales y Borrego, the said Antonio
Gonzales Borrego, the said Hipolito
Vigil and this afliant.
CHAVEZ CROSSING THE BRIDGE.
"The said Francisco Chavez, in COM
pany with one Atilano Gold, came across
said Guadalupe bridge on said night be-
tween 8 and 10 O'Clock, as near as af1iant
now remembers, entering upon said
bridge at the northerly end and passing
across until they reached point between
ten and fifteen feet north of the southern
end of said bridge. At that particular
moment the said Hipolito Vigil and said
Antonio Gonzales y Borrego and the said
Francisco Gonzales y Borrego were at
and about the southern end of said bridge,
and I, Patricio Valencia, was about fifty
feet in northerly direction from them.
81 had just started to go up town,
under the direction of said Hipolito Vigil,
to ascertain why said Laureano Alarid
had delayed SO long in returning from
his mission, as above mentioned, when I
heard Atilano Gold talking loudly as he