Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-03

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his sister, and was forced to lead the
officers to the hiding place of his COM
panion. Hunt was found 100 yards
away, hidden beneath a sand bank.
Both men readily surrendered to the
officers but wept piteously and begged
| the officers not to shoot The girl
threw her arms around er brother
and pleaded for his life.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
| to Springer where he heard of the
construction of the Santa Fe Central,
so he came to this city and went from
here to Kennedy.
The murder he committed there he
said was another instance of the bad
luck that has followed him constantly
He stated to Mr.. Martin that he had
become very friendly and "chummy"
with the man he killed. Each of them
had meal ticket that was good at the
mess house there and before supper on
the day of the murder, he and his
friend had been drinking. Duran said
he was intoxicated When they reached
the door of the mess house. The man
who punched the meal tickets at the
door, refused to let him in on account
of being intoxicated and they had few
words. The ticket taker finally pushed
him from the entrance, seized him by
the throat and threw him to the
ground. Duran said that as he arose
from the ground he drew his revolver
with the intention of firing at the tic
ket taker, but became confused and
shot and killed his bosom friend in
stead.
Coming to the time of the murder of
Epitacio Gallegos, Duran stated to Mr..
Martin that this was further instance
of circumstances being against him.
He insisted that he begged Hampe to
leave many times before Gallegos re-
turned to the Jail but that Hampe de-
clined on the ground that 1t was too
light for them to escape. Hampe claim
all that would be necessary would be
to order Gallegos to throw up his
hands and the order would be obeyed.
Instead of obeying, ,Gallegos grappled
with Hampe. Duran said three shots
were fired, two by Hampe with his re-
volver, and one by himself with the
rifle. Gallegos, said Duran, was not
armed and it was his belief that the
shot he fired with the rifle is the one
that struck Hampe in the arm. Duran
stated to Mr.. Martin that he was pre-
pared to die and that he was satisfied
he had never done any man an inten-
tional wrong. He stated that he en-
tered a plea of guilty because he and
Hampe were equally guilty of the
crime and, as they were both in 1t, ne
thought they might as we'll say SO.
Duran maintained that he was never in
any trouble other than the scrapes
named. Mr.. Martin questioned him
closely about the Fountain, Alexander
Bull and Pedro Du Aide murders, all
of which took place in Dona Ana coun-
ties. Duran stated that he did not
know of the Fountain murder until
three years after it had taken place,
and that he was working on the Cali
fornia division of the Southern Pacific
when the others took place. He denied
having anything to do with them or
having any knowledge of them.
THE CRIME.
The crime for which Telles' eventful
and sinful life was today ended by law
was murder-the heartless shooting
down Of Epitacio Gallegos, at the time
taller at the Santa Fe county Jail. The
crime was committed on the evening or
Sunday, January IS, at or about the
hour Of 6 o'clock.
On that evening, Gallegos had occa-
sion to go across the Santa Fe river
and while he was away, Victoriano
Casados, the night watchman at the
iail. undertook to put the prisoners In
their cells for the night. In an un-
guarded moment he was overpowerd by
Telles and Alfred Hampe. The latter
was prisoner charged with robbing a
railroad car, while Telles was await
ling trial on the charge of having MUIR
dered a man at Kennedy, this county.
/ Casados was relieved of his keys and
himself locked in cell. The two men
then made their way up the stairs to
where there were some fire arms. Pos
sessing themselves of revolver and
rifle, the former the property of the
man who was afterwards murdered,
land the latter belonging to Sheriff Kin
sell. they descended the stairs and
went to the cell wherein they had con-
fined Casados. They inquired whether
Ior not Gallegos was armed and were
Iassured that he was not. Casados told
them that they had all Of the keys and
that there was nothing between them
land liberty. He asked them to go, but
they refused, saying they would walt
lfor Gallegos. Their subsequent explain