Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-02
IN THE DISTRICT COURT.
The Gai0red Boy. John oliver, Again
Acquitted of Mal<fng a Deadly AS
sauit--Jim Harris on Trial for
Assisting sOrregOs to Files
and saws.

The jury trial of the Territory against
John Oliver, colored, charged with max
ing mrrderous assault on Joseph An
derson near Charlottesville last Novem-
Der, was concluded in the district court
about - O'Clock last night, and, as in the
previous trial against Oliver for making
an alleged deadly assault on Anderson's
partner, Adams, the jury promptly re-
turned verdict acquitting the defend
ant.
At this trial District Attorney Crist
prosecuted and Mesars. Berger, Gortner
and Solignac defended The evidence of
Jim O'Neill that he saw Oliver out on the
road ahead of the wagon of Anderson and
Adams, acting III a suspicious manner
abont the time of the alleg ed assault, and
that of Zoldhoff to the effect that Oliver
was not in the saloon at Cerrilios during
the evening of the assault as he claimed he
was, made the case against the defendant
much stronger than IN the first trial; but
evidently the jury concluded, from the
conflicting and incoherent testimony of
| Anderson and Adams and the undisputed
circumstance that they were intoxicated
when they left Cerrillos, that they quar-
relied and came to blows on the road and
then sought to explain their battered and
bloody condition by duplicating the IN
known colored boy whom they had met
in Cerrillos while selling their apples.
The case of the Territory against jim
Harris, indicted for assisting prisoners
to escape from the county jail, was called
at O'Clock this morning with the dis
trict attorney prosecuting aud Charles A
Spices defending. A jury was secured
and the trial began about IL o'clock.
1t is charged in this case that in July
1895, while in the city department of the
county Jail on the charge of being drunk
and disorderly, the defendant, acting ir
collision with young Jose Gonzales y
Borrego, also in the city jail for ar
offense against the ordinances, smuggled
certain files and saws into the cells Of
Francisco and Antonio Gonzales Bor
rego, now under sentence to die for thu
murder of ex-Sheriff Chavez, said files ant
saws to be used to enable the Borregos tc
escape from custody.
ON TIE CIVIL SIDE.
It will be rememb ered that on the 215t
of last month, in the matter of The
| Trustees of the Board of Domestic Mis-.
sions of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in U. s. of America
VS.. Charles Probst, ejectment, the jury
brought in verdict for the plaintiffs
The attorneys for the defendant, Messrs
Charles A. Spiess and Geo. W. Knaebel
then made motions for new trial and il
arrest of Judgment.
These motions we're heard by Judgt
Laughlin yesterday, the attorneys men
toned representing Mr.. Probst and Hon
Z. A. Fiske, who conducted the trial for tn
plaintiffs, resisting motions. After being
fully advised in the promises, the cour
denied the motions and judgment wa
entered mp against the defendant.
Whether this notable cause, which wa
first tried in the district court here il
1884 and was subsequently appealed t,
the territorial supreme court and then e.
the United States supreme court by tn
defendant, will again be appealed is no
known at this writing.