Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-10-23

offered to advance the necessary money
to her; that he saw another woman, he
thought Dominga's sister, Nellie, at the
house at this interview; that he then left
the house to get bill changed; that dur.
ing the few minutes he was gone after
change he met Spiess and Marcelino
Ortiz; that they went back to Doninga'e
house with him and they found her alone
that he gave Domingo 81 and told her to
testify to the truth; that he remained q
few minutes and went out, leaving Spiess
and Marcelino Ortiz with Domingo; that
while he was present Spiess asked Do
minga if she had not been offered money
to go to Santa Fe and testify against the
Borregos; that she said she knew nothing
about the killing of Chavez; that when
he left the house Spiess and Marcelino
Ortiz were in the room with Domingo
that he did not remember seeing Nellie
Apodaca there on this visit; that Spiess
made no offer of money to Domingo in
his presence; that Domingo and Nellie
Apodaca were women of bad reputation.
TWO WOMEN WERE THERE.
On cross-examination, the witness said
that the first time he went to see Do
minga Apodaca there we're two women
there, Domingo and her sister, Nellie;
that about fifteen minutes elapsed before
he returned with Spiess and Marcelino
Ortiz; that he didn't see Nellie the second
time; that he remained about ten or
fifteen minutes and left Spiess and Ortiz
with Domingo; that while he was there
Spiess asked Domingo if she had been
offered money to testify against the Bor-
regos and that she said no and that she
knew nothing about the killing; that he
didn't know why Spiess and Ortiz re-
manned with Domingo after he left; that
Spiess did not explain to him what his
business with Domingo was.
A reoess was then taken till 8 a. m.
SESSION THIS MORNING.
The territorial supreme court met at 8
o'clock this morning with Associate JUS
tice Collier presiding and Associate JUS
tices Hamilton, Laughlin and Bantz pres
emit.
H. w. LOOMS was, on motion of Mr..
Ferguson, admitted to practice before
the court.
Gen. Bartlett announced that the legis-
latlve employees cases would be appealed
to the United States supreme court.
In the second of the cases of the Terri
tory VS.. Susano Ortiz, Judge Bantz hand
ed down an opinion reversing the judg-
ment of the lower court and REMINDING
the case for new trial. Justices Collier
and Hamilton concurred.
The hearing of testimony in the matter
of the charges preferred against Catron
and Spiess was resumed.
The transcript of the record in the case
of the City of Santa Fe against Porfria
Martinez de Strong, appealed to the dis
trict court, was offered and admitted in
evidence.
Marcelino Ortiz was recalled for cross
examination. He said that he saw Do.
minga Apodaca in her room at Las Vegas
about two weeks before the Borrego trial;
that she then told him that Cunningham
and Crist wanted her to testify against
Francisco Gonzales Borrego and that
she knew nothing about the killing; that
he came over to Santa Fe and reported to
Spiess what she had said; that he had
made 1t his business during the trial to
do all in his power to help the Borreg Is
that he had arranged an interview be-
tween spiess and Domingo at Las Vegas
before he, spiess and Hilario Romero
went to her house; that he and Spiess
came to Santa Fe the night after seeing
Domingo and that Domingo wss on the
same train; that after her arrival in Santa
Fe he had made three efforts TO get Do
minga to 60 to Catron's Office, but she
refused to go; that on one of these COCA
sions he was accompanied to Dominga's
house by Gus O'Brien; that he was, the
personal friend of the Borregos, Charles
Conklin and Catron and Spices; that he
was
A LABORER;
that he had run gambling games at Las
Vegas and San Pedro and tended bar at
Watrous last year for four months; didn't
know any reason why he and Spiess re-
manned at Dominga's after Romero had
left
The major part of the forenoon was
occupied with the examination of Thomas
B. Catron and Charles A. Spiess, respond
ents in the case on trial, both of whom
generally and in elaborate detail denied
the doing of every act and thing alleged
against them tending to show unprofes-
sional conduct on their part either in
connection with the Borrego murder
trial or the case at bar against them.
The defendants then rested.
Mr.. Childers said that one or two wit
nesses would be called by the prosecution
in rebuttal after dinner.
A recess was then taken till 1:3O p. m.