Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-10-16

being in part as follows;
One Ramon Garcia, claiming to be sent
for that purpose by the said Thomas B.
Catron and one Carlos Conklin, to-
gether With one Jose Dominguez, visited
said witness at Cerrillos in the county of
Santa Fe, in the territory aforesaid, and
the said Jose Dominguez then and there
falsely personating an officer pretended
to serve subpoena on the said witness
requiring her attendance at said prelim-
mary examination, when in truth and in
fact the said Dominguez had no sub
poena, and thereby induced the said wit
ness to go with them, the said Ramon
Garcia and Jose Dominguez to the city
of Santa Fe, and to the house of a certain
Mrs. Quintana, in said city, where the
said Charles Conklin interviewed said
witness and stated to said witness that
he wanted her to testify on said prelim-
mary examination that she, the said wit
ness, on the night of the killing of one
Francisco Chavez, for whose murder the
said defendants we're being tried, she saw
a certain Louis Gonzales in his under
clothes in the house where he lived which
was situated several hundred yards from
the place where said killing occurred,
which said testimony was for the purpose
of contradicting the said Louis Con
zales, he having claimed to have seen the
defendants or some of them Gear the
place of the killing a very short time be-
fore the killing occurred. 1t is further
represented that afterwards and upon the
trial of the said defendants upon indict-
ment for said murder, as aforesaid, one
Fred Thayer, also falsely personating an
officer, pretended to have a writ for the
arrest of said witness, took her into GUS
tody at Lamy, in said county of Santa
Fe, and brought said witness to the Office
of the said Thomas B. Catron and Charles
A. Spiess, in the said city of Santa Fe,
where the said Thomas B. Catron and Chas
A. Spiess caused said witness to be kept
and detained all of the balance of the
night upon which she arrived there and
on the succeeding day and night until
she was taken to the train and returned
to Lamy, except the time when she was
upon the witness stand in the court house
being examined as a witness, she having
been taken directly from said Office to
the court house and placed upon the
witness stand, and Immediately upon the
| conclusion of her examination returned
to said Office, all of which conduct tended
to intimldate said witness, and as she
testified afterwards caused her to testify
falsely to the statements suggested to her
by said Conklin, she being then and there
an ignorant, friendless woman.
Third.-The said Thomas B. Catron
was guilty Of unprofessional conduct in
connection with the said trial in this:
That one Max Knodt had been material
witness for the territory at said prelim-
mary examination, testifyi1g then that
he saw aud recognized the said defendant,
Francisco Gonzales y Borrego, going
down Water street in said city of Santa
Fe toward the place where said killing
occurred aud within an hour and a half
of the time when said killing of said
Francisco Chavez was alleged to have
taken place, and said Max Knodt on the
subsequent trial of the said cause on in
dictment testified differently as to seeing
and recognizing said Francisco Gonzales
y Borrego on said night, testifylng
vaguely and not remembering facts to
which he testified to positively and with
certainty on the preliminary examine
ton, thus rendering his testimony COM
paratively valuless to the territory, and
admitted upon cross examination, that
he, the said Catron had promised him to
procure railroad pass to and from Fort
Wingate at any time he, the said Knodt,
desired.
Said testimony of said Knodt was
given on said trial on the 25th day of
May, 1895, and during said trial said Cat
ron procured pass from Santa Fe to
Fort Wingate and return for said Knodt
and subsequent to said trial said Cat
ron obtained another pass between said
points for said Knodt, the obtaining and
giving of which said passes for said
Knodt was for the purpose and had the
effect to induce him to change his testi.
mony given upon said preliminary exami-
nation as herein before stated.
Fcurth.-That the said Thomas B. Cat
ron was guilty of unprofessional conduct
in this: That he, the said Catron, offered
money and other inducements to one
Rosa Gonzales Bace, mother of Louis
Gonzales and Mauriclo Gonzales, both
very material witnesses for the territory
in the said cause, and sought by said Of
fers to procure her, the said Rosa Con
tales y Baca, to indu,e her said sons to
testify falsely in the said cause.
Fifth.-That the said Thomas B. Catron
was guilty of unprofessional conduct III
this: That on certain day, between the
29th day of December, 1894, and the 2Sth
of February, 1896. he, the said Thomas B.
Catron, offered one Mauricio Gonzales
money and otherwise attempted to in
duce the said Gonzales to make an aft
davit falsely stating that he, the said Con
zales was not at or near Guadalupe bridge,
the place of the killing of the said Cha
vez, on the night of the goth of May, 1892,
the time when said killing occurred.
CHARGES AGAINST CHARLES A. sp1Ess.
The charges preferred against Charles
A. Spiess, law partner Of T. B. Catron,
grow out of the same circumstances as
those recited in the preamble of the
charges against Catron. The first of these
charges is the same as the second pre-
ferred against Catron and printed above.
The other charges against Spiess are as
follows:
Second.-That the said Charles A.
Spiess was guilty of unprofessional con-
duct in this: That he the said Charles A.
Spiess knowing that one Domingo Apo
daca would be called as witness for the
territory went to Las Vegas in said terri
tory, to see the said witness and procure
or induce her not to testify against the
said defendant, Francisco Gonzales y
Borrego, and endeavored to persuade said
witness to absent herself from the trial of
said cause, and offered to pay said wit
ness for the purpose of influencing her
testimony in said cause in favor of said
defendants if she did testify in said cause.
And it is further specified that the said
Spiess and the said Thomas B. Catron, or
the said Spiess alone, sent agents to said
witness after she came 10 Santa Fe for the
purpose of testifylng upon the trial Of the
said cause on behalf of the territory to
come to the Office of said Catrop and