Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-17
CHAVEZ MURDER TRIAL.
Alibi Evidence COntinued-Am
Disclosures Made in Behalf of
Francisco, Antonio and
Chino.
Amusing Clock Incident-Alibi as tc
Particle Valencia-Like the Other
Defendants He Was at Home
on the Memorable Night.


the trial of Francisco Gonzales Borrego,
Antonio Gonzales Borrego, Laureano
Alarid and Patriotic Valencia, charged
with the murder of Francisco Chavez, on
Sunday night, May 80, 1892, still con-
tinues with no prospect of reaching
conclusion for several days.
ALIB1 EVIDENCE RESUMED.
At the close of our report yesterday
Fermina Chavez de Sena succeeded Paul
ina Gonzales de Alarid on the witness
stand. She was another alibist and en-
deavored to make believe that the Con
zales boys and Chino Alarid were at the
house of Seferino Alarid on the night on
which Frank Chavez was killed. Ac-
cording to her story she had gone to the
house of Seferino Alarid about 10 O'Clock
on the night mentioned, whilst on the
lookout for the return of an absent and
expected sou.
On cross-examination witness said that
she had been to Alarid's house twice.
once about O'Clock. The district at
torney directed her attention to the time
piece on the wall of the court room and
asked her to tell what time 1T was. The
witness arose with extreme deliberation,
ambled or waddled forty feet away to
where it hung and triumphantly re-
sponded that it was "half past eleven
o'clock past" The time on the dial was
11:1S. An audible litter was heard in the
room at this unlocked for denoument.
She resented inquiry as to her possession
of bibulous propensities in spite OF an
abnormaly red countenance.
FOLLOWING THE SAME TRAIL.
Next came Cecilio Lucero. Following
The same trail he testified that he was
passing the house of Seferino Alarid
about $3.50 O'Clock on the night of the
10Th of May, '92, stopped, peeked into the
window, and saw there number of per-
sons. According to his enumeration
there were twelve. According to his
count there were pine. The defendants,
excepting Patricio Valencia, were on
hand. He had been down town for an
hour and half, met nobody whom he
knew, spoke to no one, did not know
whether it had rained that night or not.
His certainty as to the time he passed by
the home of Alarid was no less prominent
and permanent than the certainty of
other witnesses as to questions of time
beneficial to the defense. While looking
in that window he saw three children of
Seferino Alarid romping on the floor.
The youngest was about year old.
(Seferino's youngest child is about year
old now. His youngest child then was
seven years old.) Going home that night
the witness travelled the longest road,
contrary to his usual custom. He had
known the Borrego boys fifteen or twenty
years and lived in house of an aunt of
theirs at the time. The district attorney
seemed satisfied that the unplausibleness
of the witness story was made suffi-
GENTLY clear and let him go.
HE FILLED FIRST AL1sI FULL OF HOLES.
He who did most to fill full of holes
the alibi attempted to be proved in favor
of the defendants on the preliminary ex-
animation before Judge Seeds, Seferino
Alarid, now resumed his task of telling a
credible story, sound and fiawless, but
the holes could not be kept out. He re-
lated essentially the same tale which has
figured 80 frequently in the trial of this
case as to the whereabouts of three of the
defendants, Francisco and Antonio Con
zales and Chino Alarid. 1t WAS - O'Clock
on Sunday night, May 20, 1892, W hen the
card players ceased their play. He knew
it was IL because the clock struck.
On no other night was the stroke of the
clock the object of his attention.
The official record shows that on the
prelimi nary examination the witness
swore that the whole party that was at
his house on the 29th of May were not in
one room. Yesterday, according to his
the reverse was true. In his ex-
animation before Judge Seeds he said
that the same crowd did not play cards
at his house the night before, Saturday
night. In this examination he claims
that he was mistaken in his answer at the
preliminary hearing, that, on the con-
trary, they did play cards at his house on
the night o. May 2S. The witness was
round in quagmire from
the moment of his entrance upon the
stand until he left it. Kept explaining
step by step as he went along in his tes-
;imony; his position was not pleasant
,ne. II was hard for him to reconcile
his answers of the past with his answers
Of the present investigation.
AL1B1 As TO VALENCIA.
The next plot on the tapis was to
formulate an alibi for Patricio Valencia,
who up to the present time had been de-
serted apparently in the vast labors
necessary to prove that the Others were
elsewhere on the memorable 29th of May.
On Patricio's side of the case Isabel
Herrera de Valencia, his wife, was called
TO the stand. Her recitation was that her
husband came home at 6 O'Clock on the
night of May 20 and remained there until
the next morning with the exception of a
trip to buy sugar, beginning little after
S and returning at 8 o'clock. She knew
the hour because she had q clock that
struck at that time.
During the 23d of May previous to the
date on which it is charged that Patricio
was in Hipolito vigil's Office coneocting
the plot of death, his wife says he was at
home all the day.
Inez Martinez followed, primed with
The necessary ammunition. She testified
that Patricio was at home on Sunday
night, May 20, at 8 o'clock. She knew it
because she had a clock that struck the
hour as the defendant came home.
Her husband took the stand next, tes-
tilted to the same agglomeration of cir
cumstances and incidents, and with as
much persistency, relieved only by glar-
ing discrepancies and probabilities.
All of the witnesses last mentioned
seemed to be in great awe and the cross
did not fail to confuse them.
The resnlt of their evidenca una most