Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-02-05
THE DEATH WARRANT.
GOy. Thornton Orders the Execution
OF the Sentence Of the Court.
TERRITORY OF New MEXICO, D
County of Santa Fe. !

To the Sheriff Of Santa Fe, Greeting:
Whereas, Francisco Gonzales Borrego,
antonio Gonzales y Borrego, Lauriano
Alarid, and Patriotic Valencia, were
charged by indictment in the district
court, sitting within and for the county
of Santa Fe and territory of New Mexico,
with the crime of murder, committed in
the city of Santa Fe, county of Santa Fe,
and territory of New Mexico, and upon
their said trial and said Indictment in
the said district court, the said defend
ants, and each Of them, viz: Francisco
Gonzales y Borrego, Antonio Gonzales y
Borrego, Lauriano Alarid, and Patriotic
Valencia, were duly found guilty and con-
victed at such term of court of the crime
of murder in the first degree of Francisco
Chaves, of the said city of Santa Fe,
county of Santa Fe, and territory of New
Mexico, and the said defendants, Fran
cisco Gonzales Barrego, Antonio Con
zales Borrego, Lauriano Alarid, and
Patricio Valencia, were in and by said
court sentenced to be hanged by the neck
until dead, and
Whereas, An appeal was taken to the
supreme court of the territory of New
Mexico, and at an adjournment of the
July term of the supreme court of the
territory of New Mexico, for the year
| 1896, said judgment was affirmed, and it
was ordered by said supreme court OF the
territory of New Mexico that the said
Francisco Gonzales y Borrego, Antonio
Gonzales Y Borrego, Lauriano Alarid and
Patriotic Valencia, be executed upon the
23d day of February, A. D. 1897, between
the honrs of O'Clock in the forenoon
and O'Clock in the afternoon of the said
day by hanging by tie neck until they
and each of them are dead-all of which
matters and things appear fully by the
records of the proceedings and decree of
the supreme court of the territory of New
Mexico.
| Now, therefore, you, the sheriff Of the
county of Santa Fe and the territory of
New Mexico, are hereby commanded, and
l, 7. Thornton, governor of the terri
| tory of New Mexico, do command you,
the said sheriff of the county of Santa Fe,
in pursuance of the said decree of the
said supreme court of the territory of
New Mexico, on Tuesday, the 23d day of
February, A. D. 1897, between the hours
of O'Clock IN the morning and
O'Clock in the afternoon of said day, to
take the said Francisco Gonzales Y
Borrego, Antonio Gonzales Borrego,
Lauriano Alarid and Patriotic Valencia
from the place where they are now con-
fined to some safe and convenient place
within the county of Santa Fe, to be
selected by you, and that you then and
there hang the said Francisco Gonzales y
Borrego, Antonio Gonzales y Borrego,
Lauriano Alarid and Patriotic Valencia by
the neck until they and each of them are
dead.
Hereof fail not, and return make of
your proceeding in the premises by vir-
tue of this warrant.
Done Mt the executive Office in the city
of Santa Fe, the capital of the territory
of New Mexico, on this the 9th day of
February A. D. 1897.
Witness my hand and the great seal of
the territory Of New Mexico.
| (Seal) W.. T.. THORNTON,
Governor of the Territory of New Mex
leo.
By the Governor:
LoRIoN MILLER,
Secretary of the Territory of New
Mexico