Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-02-04
DAsTAROly DEED.
Augustin villa, Of Cero, Rapes an
Eight Year-0l Girl.
VICTIM HIS SISTER-IN-lAW.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Tome, N. NJ, Feb. saturday eve
ming about 2 O'Clock, at the Cerro, a
little place about one and a half miles
from the old sleepy town of Tome,
there happened n OF the worst cases
of rape that ever occurred in New
Mexico At Cerro there lives one Au-
gustin Villa, a young Mexican, who
heretofore has borne a good reputation
among the quiet, peaceable citizens of
the Cerro, who has been married only
about m year to a very pretty and re-
spectacle girl of one of the best fami-
lies OF the Cerro,, a daughter of Camille
Aragon, well and favorably known in
Albuquerque.
inis Augustin Villa is a young man
of about 20 years of age, a son of Jose
Villa, who died here about two months
ago, and who was a quiet and peace
loving man of a large family-a family
who has been one of the most quiet
and respectable families of the Cerro.
The family of Camille Aragon, the
father-in-law of this Augustin villa,
lives about $40 yards from the house
of his s~on-inlaw. On Saturday the
wife Of Camille Aragon baked some,
bread and gave q losf Of TITO her little
daughter, a child about 8 years old,
and told her to take 1t to her sister,
the wife Of Augustin Villa, and to
hurry back, as she needed her. The
little girl left with her bread to 60 to |
her sisters house. During the time of
the little girls absence Augustin Villa
came TO his motherin-law's house and
after talking a while he asked for the
little girl, His motherinlaw told him
she had sent her. with a loaf Of bread
to his house. After a few more words
he got up to leave and his 'mother-in-
law told him IL he saw the little girl TO
tell her to hurry back, as she needed
her, and he answered her that he
would.
Half way between the two houses
there is an old abandoned house. At
this house Augustin Villa met his little
sisterin-law. He stopped her and told
her to come into the room Once in
side he accomplished his hellish deed.
He bruised her, scratched her, choked
her, and ravished her, and then he told
her to 60, and IL che told he would kill
her. Then he left the house and went
to the bushes and there left his under
clothes which were full of blood. and
he also took some OF the u~nderclothes
Of his little s~isterinlaw, which were
in the same condition, and hid them
In the bushes, and then he went home.
After the little girl reached home
she told Of the dastardly deed. The
news few like wildflre. In a short time
all the Inhabitants we're gathered to-
gether, the men looking for the brute,
and the women gathered at the house
of the little girl. They found her IL a
terrible condition. She was black and
blue " the body and smeared with
blood. AT that time she was not ex.
pected to live.
During the time, the men had found
the brute and turned himoverrto the
constable, who took him to the house
OF the justice Of the peace. and he was
given q hearing. He stoutly denied the
crime and said the people were placing
on his head the deed done by another.
He was taken to jail at Los Lunas,
where the negro is who committed the
same kind Of a crime last week at
Belen. ;