Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-02-01
GALISTEO KILLING AFFAIR.
Additional Particulars Respecting the Re-
cent Shooting of Ezequiel Chavez by
Librado Valencia Ohavez Ap-
pears to Have Been the
Aggressor.

Inc StOfF Ol tHe Killing VI Lequ
Chavez by Librado Valencia. at Galiste0,
on Sunday night, as exclusively printed
in the New MEXICAN last evening, was
essentially correct.
Matias SandOval. who came in from
Galisteo last night, gives the New MEX
IcAN additional and authentic particu-
lars of the affair as follows:
On Sunday morning, Ezequiel Chavez
followed Librado Valencia to the store
of Juan Ortiz, in Galisteo. and made loud
and threatening talk against someone,
not then naming the person, whom he
claimed had falsely accused him of cattle
stealing. evidently meaning Valencia.
Jose Ortiz, son of Juan Ortiz, then
called Valencia into the house and adj
vised him to go home in order to avoid
trouble. Valencia followed the advice.
In the afternoon, Valencia went on
an errand to the store of Jose Leon
Madril, and again Chavez followed him,
this time making a direct assault with
words on Valencia. Among other things
he called Librado the ''perjured s. of a
D. who has charged me with stealing
cattle"
Valencia denied having made the talk
referred to, but, when Chavez persisted
in his abusive and insulting language,
he (valencia) retorted that he might
truthfully have made the charge and
could have sent Chavez to the peniten-
tiary.
Chavez then attempted to strike Va
%lencia, but Madril jumped between the
men and put Chavez, who was some
what drunk, out of the house.
Soon after Valencia went up on top
of the hill, in old town. with some
friends. when he saw Chavez at his
(Valencia's) home making a disturbance
and apparently abusing his family. He
remained on the hill until the trouble
was over, then went to his house, and
| retired to his bed about 7 O'Clock in the
evening.
When the wife of Valencia went ia
bed, about o o'clock. Valencia Weakened
and said that he heard the voice of Cha
vez OH the outside. He jumped out OF
bed, and, with his revolver in his hand.
opened the door and saw Chavez stand.
ing lear by and was assaulted with a vol
ley of abusive language.
Valencia ordered Chavez to leave the
premises, and the latter said: II came
here tonight to kill you, you s of a
b." and made a motion to draw his
revolver. just then Valencia shot, and,
as Chavez staggered back, Valencia shot
again. Chavez then fell down and al
most Immediately expired.
A few minutes after the shooting, the
son of Ezequicl Chavez, a boy about 81
years old, came inside of Valencia's pla-
cita, and called out: .'Brother Librado.
don't shoot. an unarmed. We could
not keep father from coming here. He
| said he was coming here to kill YOU
Chavez was shot through the navel
and through the lower part of the throat
and neck, the latter shot going clear
through. Either shot would have proved
fatal.
Valencia ut first started for Santa Fe
to give himself up to Sheriff Kinsell,
but afterwards decided to remain ut
Galisteo until after the inquest. He is
supposed to be in the custody of either
Deputy Sheriff Romulo Chavez, a cousin
of the dead man, or Constable Matias
Villanueva, both of GalisteO.
In tho absence of the Galisteo Justice.
Justice Sandoval, of Canoncito, began
holding an inquest yesterday morning
and a verdict will probably be reached
today.