Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-06
CHAVES MURDER TRIAL.
Interesting Testimony Taken on Sat
urday-Judge Hamilton Gone to
Call Court at SOcOrrO-
be Back Tonight.

Judge Hamilton was Obliged to go to
Socorro on Saturday night to open his
court there this morning. Consequently
he was unable to continue the Chayes
murder trial to-day. He will return to
Santa Fe tonight and resume the trial
tomorrow morning. 1t is understood
that Judge Laughln will hold the term
in Socorro.
SUMMARY OF THE TESTIMONY.
At romptly ! 80 p. m. on Saturday the
first witness for the prosecution in the
Chaves murder trial, Draughtsman Strov-
er, of the surveyor generals office, took
the stand. He was called to identify three
maps of the locality where Chayes was
killed, and to qualify himself as one com
potent to do Typographical and other map
work. These maps were then introduced
in evidence and will play an important
part in the calculation of knotty ques-
lions of place and direction relative to
the assassination.
Following Strover came Atalino Gold,
who was at the side of Frank Chaves when
the mortal wounds were inflicted. His
story varied little, if any at all, from that
related by him at the preliminary ex
animation in January, 1894, before Judge
Seeds. He and the sheriff had left a
down town saloon somewhat after .
O'Clock in the night, starting home to go
to bed. Gold was whisky fuddled, though
not drunk, his condition being made the
subject of "joshing" by the victim as he
approached the shambles. When the two
comrades had arrived within eight or ten
feet of the southern terminus of the Qua
dalupe bridge, not 200 feet from the Cha
YES dwelling house, a succession of rapid
shots startled the air.
Chaves cried out: "These brutes have
killed me-" and fell to the footway utter
ing no other word. Atalino, supplied,
kept on his way few feet farther, but
seeing misty shape turned backward,
and at this shot was taken at him. Fear
lending speed to his footsteps he ran,
leaped over the body of the fallen officer
and in his passage cried out, "Frank,
Frank" to which no reply came.
He then sped on, bound for the Office
of DR.. Sloan. At a point near the north
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feet from the Soehnchen saw mill, he came
upon A. z. Hogle, to whom, in hurried
voice, he told of the shooting of Chaves
and still pursued his way to the doctors.
1t was few minutes before or after 10
O'Clock when he aud DR.. Sloan returned
to the place where the body lay. Gold
said that the night was hazy. The moon
was obscured behind the Guadalupe
church and therefore it was impossible to
distinguish objects more than ten feet
beyond him. However, to the right,
within the paling fence around the Quad
alupe churchyard, he heard the muffied
tread of feet and was half convinced that
he saw pass out by the gateway two or
three men. Upon this point he
SPOKE HEsITATINGLY.
Those that he thought were men he de-
scribed as "dim bulks." He could give no
certain statement as to the direction from
which the shots were fired. The tele-
graph pole near the upper end of the
bridge seemed to be the center of the
fusilade, but whether the shots came to
this side or to that of it he was uncer-
tain. Herein his story differed from his
testimony at the previous hearing there
on. The CROSS examination of Gold de-
yeloped nothing new. The attempt of
the attorneys for the defense to make
capital out of the witness statement
that he was somewhat intoxicated was
frutless.
Mr.. Catron very softly and persuasively
81 TO Int ~ 1y, ha no
blurred his senses to such an extent that
his recollection could not be relied upon,
but the witness declared that if he were
in any degree stupefied by liquor the
shots Immediately brought him to full
possession of his mind.
According to his statement on Saturday
it would appear that Gold was walking
,ither behind or in front of the sheriff.
This he did not remember clearly. Here
IS another variance from his testimony of
nearly two years ago. Then he said that
le was walking on that side of Chaves
whence the murderous bullets came. The
witness was excused, Mr.. Catron notify
ng the court that the defense would
call him as its witness.
"a. p. Hogle," called out the district
attorney, and the south side painter and
undertaken took the stand. He testified
hat on the night of the 29th of May,
1892, at precisely 10 O'Clock, he left the
rouse of friend of his named Blanchard,
IN johnson street. Proceeding down
Johnson street to Railroad avenue, he
vent thence directly toward the Guada-
upe bridge. He had heard three shots
IS he came along. When about on line
lear the north edge of the bridge and
orty feet from the Soehnchen saw mill
Juliet whizzed by him in northeasterly
Erection, and the report of two dis
harges of firearms resounded. Here
Atalino Gold came running, stopped, told
lin what happened, and continued on
lis way to the doctors as he said. Hogle
hon went up to where lay the body and
ecognized it as that of Frank Chaves.
lis position was one which indicated
hat he wrlthed around or twisted as he
ell His feet we're approximately toward
he south, his head approximately toward
he north. The night was semidark, yet
here was sufficient light to distinguish
objects out moderate distance.
RECOGNIZED BODY OF cHAvEs.
"Anybody," he said, "who knew Frank
ould have recognized him in the form
N the bridgeway."
"When you reached him was he dead or
liver" asked the district attorney.
Gle was dead" was the mumbled re-
'ly.
The witness said that he saw nobody |
round and heard neither voices nor foot
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