The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-04
THE ARROYO CULPRITS.
LINE WHICH THE DEFENSE WILL
PROBABLY PURSUE.
Past Services to the Country Will
some Of the Participants Say.

City of Mexico. October 3.--Ths Mexican
Herald says that it was reported that the
Arroyo culprits, through their attorneys.
would endeavor to delay the trial BY Jury
as long as possible by having recourse to
all sorts of legal quibblss, their object. Of
course, being to allow popular Indignation
to subside and thus to enjoy a better
chance OF being acquitted. But this idea.
II it ever existed. has been abandoned. as
the attorneys for the defense have held
meeting, at which they decided TO gather
at once all the evidence tending to benefit
their clients SO that the trial bv iuly rnav
take place within the next week Or So
Some idea OF the line which the defense
uals who are most deeply compromised
after FillaVicsncto are the gsndarrnss who
actually perpetrated the murder BIZ stab
ing Arroyo. They will, 1t Is said, frs.
OF all urge their fear of personal harm II
they had disoheyed. But as the ground
lessIess of this plea can be proven ty the
example Of Guadalupe Monroy, wko lad
the moral courage to decline to have any
thing 20 do with so outrageous a business
past services TO their country In orier to
escape the application OF the death sen-
tenee.
Gendarme Genaro Tribe eontesses 10 hav-
ing inflicted on Arroyo the tremendous stab
in the left side. He will claim that he
was at one time corporal la The Tween
ty-third Infantry battalion and that In thar
capacity be took part in ten ENGAGEMENTS
against the Saquis in the sierra de
Racatete.
Tribe is man Of some education. He
was born In the state Of Sonora and be
received a medal in recognition of his
bravery IN the Yaqua campaign When
admitted into the Mexico police force he
soon distiu guished himself for his cool
ness and sagacity. and he has more than
twenty important captures OF noted GRIM
Fnais TO bis credit. He was. therefore.
often entrusted with dangerous and Diff
curt polics commissions in which hs
naturally provoked the hatred of evil doors.
Noc long ago he was shot at at close range
IN Merced street by one OF his enemies
ana bis escape With life was almost niraeu-
lous
Tribe Ia making his statement befors
! lne Judge said that yiiIavicenclo went
10 tue SECOND ward police station FOR hin,
ana others of bis comrades and did NOT teii
.nen what they were wanted for until
cney reached the entrance of the citv hail
"nen Villaviceucio stopped and said: ..Irp.
s sais enere Is prisoner whom the in
sprspor general wants you to Dispatch
The sendarme Noriega. who cnnfessas
20 having inflicted the four csntimetar
Wounds IN the region OF Arroyo's haart
WIZ aiso 'aii back on services to his co,,n
t.y. He has served in the r,rraIss ana
S Sl 10 nave taken part on the reouh-
$50 sue IN several engagements at the
eSy,oa OF the Intervention and the empirn
connection With the Arroyo rnlrrder ~
OF them, Cuellar and Bravo. are onlv az
ssseu OF having co-operated In eoueea,Jng
oie crime, and II is probable ,ha, 49,.
WEI De acquitted even OF that charge
sonle lawyers assert that the prosecutfn.
as.oFaey VIII recommenS the passage -,
~ 80 sentence on villaviceucio and
'NS actual perpetrators OF the murder
one OF the attorneys for the dsra,.
sAd, endeayor to eomplIcate m.,ts-.
oy maintaining that the cuIpris onah, -
oe uied by military court nj nn, ~ ~
a. ordinary criminal court His W
s.on ~ based on the fact that the re,da 80.
'''m : military organization.
OH p'o carnsnna- one OF the geudarme.
ths r,r-s .nousas 70 have had a hand in
, u' murder OF Arnulfo Arroyo. has 49,
Hoerated, having proved that he w.s ~
10 way guilty Of the crime laid at ~.
aoo.. In an interview yesterday rsrrnns
SAID ne had been a policeman sJnc. rssa
and thar he had ever tried his best tn a. a.
MS duty This was attested by the ,. u9
IL 'uers were no black marks in the
-. ooHs against him. and that more
osef there were TO his credit numb,
or important arrests.
re was once In prison for a short time
"a lest, out he was soon liberated and d.
eiared free OF fault. In making nm arras,
ne PRISONER resisted aud succeeded IN
| woonding Carmona in two different places
e ater nrea In his turn and wounded
| arrested NS ne Was
! carmona has been in hard luck. In $50.
MS son-sn-taw committed suicide ami i
week later his daughter also took her life
HIS son. Tito. a short time ago. shot him
SELF while cleaning pistol and be il sfill
thus inflicted
the charge OF having helped in the r,ur-
der OF Arroyo. Carmona said thst Ia had
spent the 10th in securing the arrast a, !
| woman who had tried to hide ths "a,
INA, one OF Der sons had killed his brother
Earis Va the evening of the 18th he return
60 70 ms home Al Pie. de Santo Tomas
and being very tired he went Ia Md m
the evening villaviceurio sent Tor ,,,r
but his wife. knowing that be was yery
urea, told the messenger that he had not
YET returned home Though he ala M,
KNOW what was in the wind at the time
ne Is positive In his assertion that had he
been present he would not have struck ,
man 10 straight Jacket The next morn
ing be met Pardave, one OF his fellow
poilceman- who appeared TO be somewhat
exctred and told him that he was fortunate
I'd not having been on duty On the pre
yious night. Pardave said that he hlmseii
had rot taken any part Ia the murder
but addad that the deed had been done by
Nor~tga. Urthe and Cervantes. who had
wounded the victim with a door-bar.
Socialists at Hamburg.
Berlin, October s.-The socialist coa-
ven'ion was opened At Hamburg today. II.
principal object 10 to decide a. 10 the