Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-11
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Peccdtd contra ndturdm stunt grGuissimG.
Offences against nature are the heaviest,
The case of Theodore Hainlen against
Thos. J.. Ground has been docketed fol
trial.
Jose Antonio Crespin got thirty days in
the county Jail for not needing the sixth
commandment.
Tie attachment suit instituted by DR.. w.
r. Tiptpn against F.. N. Page, was on q
promissory note OF long standing.
VIM. Frank, of Los Alamos, was allowed
$11. 10 for telling the U. S. grand jurors all
he knew about the burglarizing of the
postofice at bis place.
Two indictments rave been returned by
the U. s. grand jury, but no true bill was
found against Pillar Garcia de Borrego and
Jose Ignacio Rael, charged with adultery.
Valentin Jimenez, of Mora county, who
was yesterday sent to Jail for ten days, for
contempt of court, will get a witness GER
tifcate for $17.40 when he regains his ac-
customed freedom.
The Territorial court will organize on
Monday. The docket Is not a very large
one, owing to the fact that Judge Smith
cleaned 1t up pretty well at the last sitting
Of district court here.
George Benedict, whose stated residence
is twenty-five miles east of Watrous, got
witness fees in the Valdez case to the ag-
gregate of $14 and left for home TO attend
divine worship, tomorrow.
Garrett Eckerson, who resides nine
miles out from Watrous, when at home,
was allowed 1920 for attendance upon
the grand jury, in the capacity Of a wit
ness in the Valdez robbery case.
After the testimony had been taken in
the case against Antonio J. Valdez for the
robbery Of the Los Alamos postofice, the
fellow pleaded guilty, hoping thereby to
receive a lighter sentence from the bench.
Bench warrants have been issued for
John Crosse and Frank Scott, Texas gem
try, who are held in contempt of court for
not answering in person the subpoenas
served on them at their usual places Of
habitation.
Manuel Gonzales y Baca, whose res
idence is given as Mora, but who is prob
ably at home wherever he takes off his
hat, pocketed SIS. 80 witness fees and went
about his way, undisturbed and he NOT
molesting anybody.
Otis Snyder, one Of the parties under in
dictment for completely in the Clay ton
mail robbery, which crime was confessed
by another, was handed a court certificate
for $40 So for attendance as a witness be-
fore the U. s. grand jury.
James Baird, the Las Cruces cattle in
spector, drew witness fees to the amount
OF al. 80 and left for home, last evening.
He testified before the U. S. grand jary in
the case against the Dennis boys, for
driving infected cattle into New Mexico.
An order has been signed by Judge
Smith requiring Geo. B. Beringer, editor
Of the Ration Reporter, to appear in court
on Wednesday, April 18th, in bis capacity
as assignee for Herman Goldberg, up
there, and render an account of his stew
ardship.
W. II. Mitchell, postmaster at Bloss-
burg; B. F. McGarvey, ex-county commits
sioner, up there; j. Jenkins, a miner, and
]. H. Smith, are expected down from Col
fax county on Tomorrow evenings train,
to testify in the U. 8, court, on Monday, In
the case of the Territory Us. Joseph Ed
wards, ct al. for the robbery OF the Bloss-
burg p~ostcaiee.
The deposition Of Mrs. Maggie Wood,
written on the letterhead of John Brown,
IT,, attorney-at-law in San Demanding,
California, in the case OF Elizabeth e.
Bennett against her husband, VIM. Ben
nett, Of Ration, for divorce, was filed in the
district clerks Office here, and the docu-
ment subsequently mailed to A, ]. Mitch
ell, q Ration, the master In chancery ~ the
cnss.