Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-12-07
FOUL MURDER
Of AGED. MAN
Jose Manuel Martinez, Resident
Of Taos County, Assaulted
and Killed in Doorway.
HORRIBLY MUTILATED
Murderer Uses Stones With Awful
Efect...Son Brings News to San.
Ia Fe--CIew to Assassin.

On the evening of November 28tl
Jose Martinez, aged "A years, and
life long resident of Taos County, wa
foully murdered in the doorway of hi
home near Llano, and four miles fror
the Pueblo of the Picuris, in the south
ern part of Taos County. On accoun
of the isolated location of the scene O
the murder, the news has just beel
received here, being brought by sol
of the slain man, Gabino Martinez, wht
arrived here yesterday to lay the fact
of the case before District Attorne.
E. G. Abbott and in his absence from
the city, he delivered the information
to Judge A. J. Abbott.
Early Monday evening, the 28th, Mr.
Martinez returned to his home and af
ter attending to affairs at the corral
he entered the house. In short time
the dogs outside commenced barking
in a furious and excited manner. He
took lantern and asked his daughter
in-law and her son to go outside with
him to see what caused the commo
| ton. AS nothing unusual was found at
the corral, he sent his daughter-in-law
around the house to see if she could
discover anything wrong, saying that
he would re-enter the house.
He never re-entered the house alive.
His aged wife, who is u years old,
says that shortly after her husband
told the younger woman to make cir
Gle of the house. she heard noise,
| like the falling of heavy body in the
| doorway and on rushing out she found
her partner for over half a
century lying on the threshold in his
last death agony. His head was GOV.
cred with blood, from cut between
the eyes, and there were several bruis-
es on the forehead. The right eye was
completely torn from the socket and
his other eye was almost in the same
condition, although it was still con-
nected with the muscles
Gabino Martinez, the son, who was
present at a dance about two miles dis
tant, was Immediately sent for On his
arrival, he began investigations which
proved that the old man had been muir
dered as the injuries found on him
could not have resulted from fall,
and as no sign of struggle was heard
in the house, he must have been ap-
preached from behind and struck
senseless or strangled by his assailant
before the fatal blow was delivered.
Three stones were found within few
feet of the murdered man and all of
them were covered with blood. The
dead mans right hand was cut and
bleeding as if from knife or sharp in
strument.
At the coroner's inquest, which was
held next day, the jury rendered YER
dict of death at the hand of some per-
son or persons unknown and search
for evidence was Immediately begun.
Gabino Martinez said to New Mexi-
can reporter this morning before re-
turning home, that his father had new
er, to his knowledge, made an enemy
who would take such steps to cause the
aged mans death. He has clew, he
says, which he is positive will lead to
the arrest and conviction of the assas-
sin, but he refused to divulge the
name of the supect, so that he may not
be given a chance to leave the country,
before arrest.
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