Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-07-09
SANTA FE N M, TUESDAY. JULY g. 1901.
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY
LAST NIGHT
Albino Arias and Harry Daley Lose Their
Lives in Quarrsling Over Game Of
Cards and Dollar.
EARLY noRHIHG SHOOTING APPRAY

Early this morning, shortly before 3
o'clock, double tragedy was enacted
in the Oxford saloon on San Francis
co street as the result Of which two
men are dead. The cause was quar-
rel over a dollar, the stakes in game
of seven up which both participants.
Albino Arias and Harry Daley, claim
ed to have won. The story Of the at
fair as told at the inquests Is as fol-
lows:
Harry Daley and Domingo Pacheco
were coming out of the Bon-Ton res
taurant after having had lunch when
they met Albino Arias. Arias asked
Pacheco to play game Of cards with
lin for fifty cents or a dollar. Pecae-
co declined and Arias thereupon asked
Daley who consented to play for
dollar and both went into the Oxford.
Daley got the cards out of little cab
met and both sat down to play. The
game was claimed by each an u hea-
ted quarrel resulted. Daley rc,ch'd
for his revolver behind the ba" and
Arias drew weapon. One shot rang
out and Immediately upon 1t two other
shots. Arias leaned over and wrenched
the revolver out of Daley's hand and
then ran out as far as the Claire hotel,
turned back and entered the Bon-Ton
restaurant and fell to the ground near
the entrance with the blood streaming
from a wound in the left thigh and
still clutching Daley's revolver. Daley
fell to the floor in the Oxford saloon
with a wound in the left shoulder, the
bullet lodging in the spine and par
alyzing his body below the hips. In
the meanwhile Deputy Sheriff Francis
CO Gonzales y Baca came upon the
scene, having heard the shots and had
Daley removed to st. vincent's hospit-
al. Arias was taken to his home near
the Denver & Rio Grande depot where
he expired just as he was being carried
into the house. The two physicians
who were called in could do nothing
when they arrived except to determine
that death had ensued. Arfas leaves
wife and two daughters, one single and
the other Mrs. Romualdo Tenorio. A
mysterious part of the shooting is that
the revolver that Arias had has disap-
peared A short time ago he borrowed
a revolver from John v. Conway under
the pretense that he wanted to repair
it. He did not return the weapon and
the shooting was probably done with
| it. Only one chamber in Daley's re-
| volver was empty.
Daley fingered Il at the hospital until
9 o'clock this morning when he died
He came here from ithaca, N. Y, some
time ago for his health and took to
gambling to make livelihood. He had
no family.
Justice of the Peace Francisco An
ava impaneled a coroner's jury as fol-
lows to pass upon the death of Albinc
Arias: Encarnacion Sandoval, Charles
B. Conklin, Jose Tapia, Juan Shoema-
ker, Nicolas Rodriguez, James Hovey
They rendered a verdict that Arias
came to his death by bullet wound
from the hands of Harry Daley.
An inquest was held over the re-
mains of Harry Daley by Justice oi
the Peace Anaya who empaneled the
following jury: FREDERICK Lopez, Benz
to Alarid, Tomas Smith, Anselmo Ar
milo, Jose c. Sanchez and Crescencic
Martinez, which rendered a verdict
that Daley came to his death by bull
let wound from the hands Of Albint
Arias. Daley's remains were taker
| charge of by Undertaken James Nc
Cabe.
| The funeral of Arias will take place
| tomorrow morning. Mass will be cele'
brated at the cathedral. Intermen'
will be made in Rosario cemetery.
Daley's funeral will take place to-
morrow morning at o'clock from tn
cathedral. Interment In Rosario Gem