Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-04
Santa Fe, N. NJ, Sept. 3, 1897.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,

Santa Fe, N. M, Sept. ., lo5f.)
Whereas, Bonifaco Barron, was at the
special October term of the District court
of the First judicial district of the terri
tory of New Mexico, sitting within and
for the county of Taos, in said territory
of New Mexico, on the 18th day of Octo-
Der, A. D., 1896, convicted of embezzle-
ment and sentenced to Imprisonment at
the territorial penitentiary for term of
10 months; and
Whereas, A large number Of citizens
and Taxpayers of the said comfy of Taos,
including majority of the jurors who
were impanneled in and sat upon the
trial of the said Barron, and also includ-
ing the bondsmen who had signed the
official bond of the said Barron, have
petitioned for the pardon of the said
Barron; and
Whereas, The jury that convicted the
the said Barron, and was cognizant of all
the facts and circumstances surrounding
the defaleation of the said Barron by
their verdict recommended the said Bar
ron to the clemency of the court trying
him; and
Whereas, The moneys which the said
Barron defaulted in paying over to the
authorities regularly constituted to re-
ceive such moneys, has been almost en-
tirely paid by the bondsmen of the said
Barron, and it satisfactorily appearing
that the said bondsmen are amply re-
sponsible financially for the balance due,
by reason of the said defalcation of the
said Barron, and have confessed judg.
ment therefore; and
| Whereas, 1t has been made to appear
to me conclusively, after full hearing In
said cause had before me on the 10th day
of August, A. d. 1897, wherein the terri
tory and the said Barron were represent
(, ed, that the defalcation of the said Barron
was due entirely to carelessness in en-
trusting the duties devolving upon him,
as collector of taxes, to deputies and as
sistants, and that he, the said Barron was
not actuated by any malicious or crimi-
nal intent in failing to properly account
for moneys entrusted to him as collector
of taxes; and
Whereas, The said Barron has hereto
fore been an honest, upright and useful
citizen of the said territory OF New Mex
leo; and
Whereas, Jacob II. Crlst, district attor-
ney who prosecuted the indictment against
him, the said Barron, has recommended
that the sentence pending against him,
the said Barron, BIS committed to i'm.
prisonment for period of one year,
basing his said recommendation upon
the fact that the defalcation of the said
Barron was due to "carelessness rather
than malicious intent;" and
Whereas, The said Barron has about
com pleted the term of one year, including
the time allowed him for good behavior
while prisoner in the said penitentiary
Now, Therefore, I, Miguel A. Otero
governor of the territory of New Mexico
by virtue of the power ard authority in
me vested, do hereby grant the said Boni
facio Barron a full and complete pardon
from the sentence and conviction herein
before recited.
Done at the executive office, this the Sd
day of September, A. D. 1897. Witness
my hand and the great seal of the terri
tory Of New Mexico.
(Seal) MIGUEL A. OTERo,
Governor of the Territory Of New Mexico
| By the Governor:
Gro. H. WALLACE,
| Secretary of New Mexico.