Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-05-04
HE WILL HANG!
Ruiz, the Murderer, to
Swing into Eternity.
His Earthly Career Will End
on June |.
Judgment Of Lower Court Confirmed
by Supreme Court,
he MURDERED PATRlclo o'BANNoN,

At the session Of the territorial SUI
preme court In Santa Fe yesterday,
Jose p Ruiz. whose appeal to the SUI
preme court was affirmed by that court
entering a Judgment that the defend
ant be hanged on the first day of June,
1900. was convicted In the district court
In Bernalillo county on the Goth OF Oc-
tober, 1898, under an indictment re-
turned by the grand jury on October
s Of the same year, charging him with
having murdered little Patricio OBan-
non in the month OF May, 1895 The
facts In the case. which were printed
in detail In The Citizen at the time OF
the horrible tragedy, are briefly related
in the following.
Jose p. Ruiz was engaged in the cat
tie industry on the ranges west OF this
city, and came to Albuquerque with a
companion for the purpose OF disposing
OF a bunck OF cattle When he had
received the money he and his com
panion started out 90 enjoy themselves
and have generally good time. They
indulged freely and after drinking and
carousing around at the various re-
sorts in old town all OF one night they
wound up at the saloons in the south
ern part Of this city at noon the next
day. At about o'clock in the evening
they started south through Barelas for
their ranches. While passing through
that settlement, riding their ponies In
a drunken and reckless manner Ruiz
fiourlshed and levelled his revolver at
several persons along the road, and
nInn reaching
non, at the bend near the bridge, he
again levelled his pistol and fired into
a group of three innocent little child
ren' aged from to 9 years, who were
playing around pump In O'Bannon's
door yard. Two shots were fired the
frst OF which pierced the heart OF Pa.
| tricio O'Bannon. whose age was about
years, causing the immediate death
OF the child. and the second bullet
grazed the scalp OF another little one.
| After, the shooting an alarm was
| gwen, Sheriff Hubbell was notified and
was soon In hot pursuit of the murder.
| er. Ruiz crossed the Barelas bridge
changed horses with his companion
threw away his revolver and started
west over the sand hills and mesa. The
sheriff captured his man, and aftei
tying him securely to the bottom of q
wagon. by great luck drove through
the angry and infuriated mob, which
had assembled in Barelas, and landed
his prisoner safely behind the bars OF
the county jail.
Ruiz Is young Mexican, "a years OF
age weighs about 1885 pounds, and ap.
parently does not possess great
amount of intelligence. Upon his triaI
he seemed to have the utmost indiffer.
ence as to the result OF the case, and
upon the return Of a verdict appeared
not much perturbed. His attorneys. a.
the trial, endeavored to introduce testi
mony to the effect that there was ,
streak OF insanity in the DEFENDANT
family, which on account OF it's remote
ness was ruled out by the court. Tn,
physicians who testified as experts
We're unanimous in the opinion tina
man could not be so drunk as to b,
able to ride a horse, take deliberat,
aim and kill one child and wound an
other, as Ruiz did, without knowinI
what he was doing.
The defense was ably represented by
Attorney Summers Burkhart. Judg,
W. c. Heacock assisted District Attor
ney Finical in the prosecution.