The herald., 1896-10-30
Defendants Statement Wiped
Out Hope
A TOO MERRY DINNER PARTY
A Free Fight Between the Foster and
Lugo Clans
Miss Isabel Spencer Desires Her Stepmother
a- to Explain Things
Mrs. Matte Billmeyer Said to Have
Been Somewhat Expert in Tending
the Hair-Some Advice as to
Voting Frauds-Notes

Voting Frauds-Notes
The trial Of Francisco Quijada has in
more than one respect broken the rec
ord.
The witnesses for the prosecution were
not numerous, and not one gave any
connected story, but each one simply
added link or two in the chain Of cir
cumstantial evidence against the de-
fendant. The witnesses for the defense.
on the other hand, were only three in
number and were only called to testify
to one solitary fact.
In the opening argument Deputy Dis
tritc Attorney McComas occupied the
time Of the jury for only ten minutes,
and Attorney Young. for the defense.
spoke for less than half an hour. The
case was given to the jury, that re-
manned out only fifteen minutes, re-
turning into court with a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree"
for life
Altogether the case was a curious one,
and the defendant appeared to have no
more clearly defined moral sense than
the lowest of the brutes. Personally,
no sympathy need be wasted upon him
for his instincts are brutal and he un-
doubtedly belongs to a class far better
confined than permitted to run loose.
Some time ago Quijada made an at
tack on a man for the simple reason
that he came to where he was employed
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nando was wandering around. too. and
got into trouble with Quijada over this
very matter and had to defend himself
with his revolver. He struck Quijada
over the head, but instead of the head
breaking the revolver was shattered.
The defendant very nearly went to
San Quentin for a long term when he
was arrested for attempting to wreck
a train by placing rocks on the track.
While in the county Jail it was sought
to get him to tell how he had carried out
his plan. and with this end in view an
officer was placed with Quijada in his
cell, the officer posing as recently ar
rested prisoner. In a very short time
the men became friends and Quijada un-
folded the secret of all his plans to the
officer, whom he supposed to be his fell
low prisoner. Upon the case coming to
trial the jury refused to convict on ac-
count of the evidence having been
worked up in such a manner as that in
dicated by q stool pigeon.
Enough has been said to show that, at
all events. Quijada is not confiding.
manly and courageous Indian built upon
the lines of one of Fenimore Cooper's
heroes. AS a matter Of fact. he is an
Apache from Southern Arizona and he
has gained little by coming to the more
densely populated country north Of his
old stamping grounds.
At the same time Quijada would have
had an excellent chance of acquittal il
1 the statement he made at the prelimin-
ary examination. had been barred out.
No one saw the difficulty between him
and Jose Maria Ochoa on the La Can
yada road, and the plea of self-defense
! might have been put forward with ef-
feet But the court admitted the state
ment and consequently the case was
given to the jury on the bare facts-and
l. they were few enough, 1t not being
shown even with what weapon the kill
ing had been done-as presented by the
prosecution.
SCATTERED LINKS OF EVIDENCE
The first witness put forward yester-
day was Edgar s. Barry, deputy sher-
| iff of Pasadena at the time of the killing
| of Ochoa He testified that he knew the
defendant by sight. At the time of the
alleged murder he was at Marshal La
| cy's office. II got a horse" said wit
mes, land young fellow named Frank
| Jones and started for La Canyada. I
| found several witnesses in the wood
choppers camp and also visited the
scene of the murder and examined the
various marks of struggle. l got the
| limb of the tree upon which Ochoa had
| lain, marked with his blood, and also got
| the hat, shirt and deInijohn-the latter
| in one of the camps"
| Witness identified the hat he found un-
derneath an oak tree, the shirt that was
found about quarter Of mile. on the
bank of the arroyo, from the scene OF the
murder.
DR.. G. w. Campbell. the coroner. tes-
| titled to an inquest having been held on
| the body of Ochoa on July 14th, at Pas
| adena. The cause Of death was two
knife wounds, each Of them deadly.
The one penetrated the LETT lope OF
The clothes of the deceased were dirty
as if thedeceased had been rolled in the
! dirt and were saturated in blood"
| Dolores Vejas, who lives at La Can
yada, next testified, saying that he is
| woodchopper, and knew Jose Maria
| Ochoa in his lifetime, he also being a
woodchopper. About 10 or II o'clock on
the morning of the 18th of July witness
saw Ochoa, and at to 7 o'clock In the
evening he again saw him, lying dead
1 on the road. On the morning of the
same day witness saw the defendant.
| 1t was an American on horseback that
called upon witness in his camp, and
it was with him that witness found the
body of Ochoa.
Gabriel Avila. another wood,chopper,
testified that he saw the defendant
about o'clock in the evening of July
18th, as he came toward witness camp.
| Witness identified the shirt put in evil
dence as the one worn by the defendant
on that occasion. The defendant had
been drinking and was in his shirt
| sleeves.
Antonia Leave, a Mexican woman
living at Pasadena, testified that the de
ceased was not her husband, but was
just living with her. After Ochoa was
killed she saw the defendant coming
towards the woodchopper Valenzuela's 4
camp, where she was at the time, and
he then wore no shirt. Witness identi-
fed the shirt in evidence as the one
worn by defendant before the killing.
After leaving the camp Quijada walE1i