Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-22
AWlLA ADULTERY TRIAL.
The Wroneei Girl, The Outraged Wife
and tho Brute Of a Man Testify.
BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY.

eppOlnted crowd OF young n unrlar-
ried men that were ushered out of
United States Commissioner Writings
of Assistant United States Attorney
r. /. Medler. II was just before the
Avilla adultery case came up for pre-
liminary hearing.
Judge w. c. Heacoek, attorney for
the defense, objected to Attorney
Medler's request. but the court sus-
tanned il.
Judge Heacock said in his objection
that it was for the secrecy of the con
Quoting of the statehood investigation
by Senator Beveridge and his sub
committee, that had caused so much
comment recently. and that he saw no
eason why the public should be Sc
cluded from the court room.
Judge Whiting replied by saying
that only the witnesses, members of
the bar, the press, officers of the law,
and three members of the b. of r. T.,
were to remain in the court room.
The Avilla adultery case, in which
Alonzo ayilla, alias James Forrest, a
passenger brakeman, is charged with
having betrayed Miss Ada M. Petty. a
girl hardly 20 ears of age. to leave
her home in Alta, Iowa, and come to
this city, where they were married in
mock ceremony, he, at the time having
a wife and family living at Winslow,
Ariz.
The case is probably the most sensa-
tional of the kind hat has ever oc-
Cured in the territory.
The complaint filed against the de-
PENDANT is as follows:
Before me, E. w. Dobson, a notary
public in and for the county OF Berna-
lilo and Territory of New Mexico, per-
sonally appeared Ada NJ. Petty, who.
being first duly sworn, deposes and
says that on and about the 25th day
of October, A. D., 1902, at Albuquerque,
in the county of B~ernalillo and in the
Second judicial district of the Terri
tory of New Mexico, A. A. Avilla, alias
James Forrest, in violation of the act
of congress, March 4, 1887. amending
section 1852 of the revised statutes of
the United States, did unlawfully com
NIT the crime of adultery. (Signed)
ADA NJ. PETTY"
The defense read the complaint and
the prosecuting witness was called.
Miss Petty appeared and took the
witness stand. She was dressed in a
neat black tailor made suit of heavy
material. with a yoke of delicate blue
and a collar of the same material grid
ling her throat. Her head was decked
with a white hat of the sailor fashion.
1t was noticeable hat she was ex-
tremeIy nervous, but she bore up
bravely under the examination. The
story she told was about the same as
that published in The Citizen of last
Monday afternoon. A number of let
tiers written to Avilla by her, were pro-
duced, which she identified. A few of
them were read. They were most pas
sionate in trend and showed that the
girl, even after she had learned that
he, Avilla, had another wife, loved
him in a most violent manner.
The prosecution produced a tele-
gram sent by Avilla to Miss Petty,
when he, Avilla, was detained at Wins
low on accoun of his baby's death.
The telegram read: BE consoled,
baby is dead"
Mrs. l.. Boiler was the next witness
to take the stand. Mrs. Boiler keeps
a rooming house at 204 North Arno
street, where Miss Petty and Avilla
had rooms. She said that Avilla came
to her place in October and secured
rooms. Miss Petty came there and
Avilla represented her to be his sister.
She said that the girl had sometimes
cried, but would say no more than that
Avilla had hidden her not to talk. On
one occasion she told Mrs. Boiler that
she was in deep trouble.
Mrs. Ayilla, the wife from Winslow,
was the next witness. Her evidence
was not very material to the case. She
produced letters she had received from
the wronged girl. In n of the letters
Miss Petty wrote that she did not want
Avilla, for IL 'he was not true to his
first wife, he would not be true to her.
A.. A. AVilla, the defendant. was