Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-01-22
PADILLA ON TRIAL
Unabated Interest in the Sensational
and Dramatic Confession of Jose
Amado Martinez
SUSANO ORTIZ TESTIMONY
Declares That he Saw Defendant and Ro.
driguez with the Murdered Man the
Night Before the Crime : Objections
to Important Evidence.

The sensational trial of the Territof.
VS.. Eustaquio Padilla, charged with tn,
murder of Faustin Ortiz in March, 1890
continues in progress and the large at
| tendance of spectators at the Distric
court room shows that the interes
| therein Is unabated
The cross-eXamination of Jose Amadt
Martinez, who testified that the defend
ant confessed the crime to him and
forced him to aid in removing and bury
ing the body in the sandy arroyo
about one mile northwest of the city,
was concluded at the session last night.
Susano Ortiz was then called to the
witness-stand by the territory. He testi-
fled point blank that, about $50 o'clock
on the night Faustin Ortiz is said tC
have been murdered, he saw Juan Ortiz
y Rodriguez, Eustaquio Padilla and the
murdered man 60 into the justice Office
of Rodriguez on Water street, where the
crime Is supposed to have been commit
ted.
The murder is supposed to have been
committed in the Office of Juan Ortiz y
Rodriguez on Saturday night, March /,
1890, and the mutilated and decomposed
body was found, partly buried, in the
arroyo mentioned, on the afternoon of
March 2s, 1890 1t is alleged that the
killing was done by Juan Ortiz y Rod
riguez, Juan Pablo Dominguez and Eu-
staquio Padilla, and the witness, Mar
tincz, gives detailed and shocking ac-
count of the removal aud burial of the
body about o'clock on the Sunday
morning after the crime was committed
Juan Ortiz y Rodriguez. after being
tried and acquitted of the crime, but
without the light shed on the case by
the confession of Martinez, died a nat
ural death. Juan Pablo Dominguez,
who was then county jailer, was killed
on the night Of June 2, 1892, by Fran
cisco Gonzales Borrego Antonio Con
zales y Borrego and Lauriano Alarid,
who were hanged last year, with Pa
tricio Valencia, for the murder of Fran
cisco Chaves on May 20, 1892.
1t is alleged that, on the Monday
morning after the murder Of Faustin
Ortiz Mrs. Altagracia Ortiz, mother
of the deceased, visited the Of
fee where her son Is said to have been
Killed, and saw blood and other unmis-
taxable signs of a mortal struggle
there and also saw Juan Ortiz y Rodri-
guez and Juan Pablo Dominguez en-
gagged In cleaning up the room.
1t is further alleged that, some time
after the murder, Roberto Stanfield was
employed to remove from the vault con-
nected with the Office of Rodriguez,
bloody papers and other evidences of
bloodshed and burn the same.
The prosecution offered to prove
these allegations by the testimony of
Altagracia Ortiz and Roberto Stan1ield
this morning, but, as Messrs Larrazolo
and Money, for the defense, strenuously
objected to the admssibility of this tes-
timony, Chief Justice Smith ordered
recess until o'clock this afternoon, in
order to enable District Attorney Crist
and r. E. Twitchell, for the prosecution,
to produce authorities supporting their
in favor OF admitting the
evidence indicated. AS this report
closes the question of tho admissibiity
Of this evidence is being argued.
Valley Company Won.
After protracted and earnestly con-
tested trial, in the district court at So
corro, the jury in the case Of the Amer
lean Valley Cattle Company VS.. j. w.
Schoficld, receiver of the Albuquerque
National bank, returned verdict OF
BIO, 900 damages in favor Of the plaintiff
company.