Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-04
CHAVES MURDER TRIAL.
Jury Finally Secured - Witnesses
Sworn and Excluded from Court
Room-Case Opened by Dis
trict Attorney.

As announced in yesterdays New Mex
IcAN, the protracted and fatiguing strug-
gle to secure a jury to try Francisco
Gonzales Borrego, Antonio Gonzales y
Borrego, Lauriano (Chino) Alarid and
Patricio Valencia, accused of numbering
ex-Sheriff Francisco Chaves, on the night
of May 80, 1892, was terminated yester-
day afternoon. The twelfth juryman was
accepted by both sides about 3 O'Clock.
still had one peremptory challenge left.
The contest over the acceptance of R.
J. Ewing as juror was quite entertain
ing and somewhat spicy. After Ewing
had been passed for cause by both sides,
the district attorney offered to prove that
he (Ewlngl had been talking with Thomas
H. Tucker, deputy sheriff in charge of the
jury, about the case. The court there
upon called Mr.. Tucker to the bar and
examined him. This examination dis
closed the fact that the remark had
passed between them that it was time to
put an end to assassination, but it was
not definitely settled which one of the
two spoke the words. Judge Hamilton
promptly settled the matter by retiring
Ewing from service on the jury. The
court then appointed Messrs. Juan B.
Sandoval and Juan Romero as bailiffs to
take charge of the jury and instructed
them as to their duties with particular
emphasis.
District Attorney Crist then gave the
court notice that 1t would probably take
him an hour and half to make his open
ing address to the jury and upon that
ground requested an adjournment until
$50 this morning. The court SO ordered.
Promptly at $3.50 this morning Judge
Hamilton opened court and the trial of
the celebrated Chaves murder case began
in earnest before the following jury: W.
E. Myers, j. Lorenzo Barros, Frank
Leonati, German Ensenias, Marcos Gu
tierrez, Miguel Maestas, Manuel Roival y
Lujan, Jose Ma. Bernal, Luciano Garcia,
Jose Goriel Ortiz, Juan Jose Archuleta,
Felipe Sena.
The court specifically instructed the
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from the court room until called, must
not talk about the case to anyone except
counsel, and must not disclose what their
testimony would be, or had been after re-
firing from the witness stand. The judge
added that punishment for contempt
would be the penalty for disobedience.
just as the court room clock struck 8
o'clock District Attorney Crist began his
opening address to the jury.
Mr.. Crist occupied about three hours
in his opening address, in the course of
which he gave complete yet concise
outline of the testimony brought out at
the preliminary hearing. In conclusion
he congratulated the jury upon the fact
that he would be able to prove that three
of the defendants had confessed their
guilt. He then recited that just previous
to the preliminary hearing Francisco
Gonzales Borrego had made confession
to Domingo Apodaca, and also that,
about four months ago, Lauriano Alarid
and Patricio Valencia had made confess
sion to q person confined in Jail with
them charged with crime similar to
that charged against them. This an
nouncement caused perceptible sensa-
ton in the court room and apparently
added to the anxiety of the defendants.
The court adjourned until p. m.