Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-17
SHERIFF HUBBELL'S TRIAL
Copy Of the Charges Preferred BY District Attorney Clancy
and the Answer by the Defendant

censts and the investigation. as vel!
M respondent as 10 whether or not
all persons engaged In the conducting
of saloons or the running OF gaming
tables had licenses authorizing them
so 10 do, and II gambling tables were
carried on on the fair grounds, as In
said paragraph alleged. this respond
ent denies that he did not perform his
duty. as therein alleged. And further
answering, this respondent states that
II has been customary for tho past
fifteen years or more for the fair as
ISOLATION 10 arrange for any and all
privileges requiring licenses or to
make arrangements with the persons
who secured such privileges, and this
respondent had no reason TO believe
that the same conditions and arrange.
ments did not exist during the time
the fair was held In 1904 ms had ex-
listed during the other years.
In the cases OF the alleged u%nlicens.
ed saloons Hubbell says that In the
cases OF Perea and Apodaca, when his
attention was called to the mater they
were brought TO a hearing and 1t was
testified that neither n had con
Quoted a liquor business. In the case
OF Martin the respondent alleges that
the latter paid his license. Respond.
ent In closing says that the governor
under the laws has no right to remove
the sheriff from his position for any
on.performance OF duties.
The following account Of the trial
Is taken from the Albuquerque Jour
nal:
The Trial.
District Attorney +. w. Clancy APP
peared In support OF the charges and
for the territory and r. w. Dobson,
as attorney for respondent.
j. a. Summers. probate clerk, was
the first witness for the prosecution
and his testimony was altogether on
the books Of the county. He told
when Melquidas Martin Of Alameda
had made application for two liquor
licenses, which were issued last July,
one for the previous year and one for
the ensuing year and to the fact that
there was no license issued 10 D&l-
iel NJ. Perea and Pablo Apodaca o.
los Griegos.
Romaldo Montoya Y Apodaca OF
Alameda, testified that Martin was in
the saloon business at Alameda and
also that Martin was n deputy sheriff
nf BernaIillo county, a politician and
affairs Of the county.
Jose Dolores Carabajal. Victor Apo
duca and Lorenzo Padilla testified tC
practically the same as the witness
preceding; Francisco Lucero y Mon
toya also testified TO the same ant
said Martin was the personal and pc
litical representative of the sheriff.
Maxine Perea testified that Dan
lei M. Perea and Pablo Apodacs
on)y sold native wine at their place O
business In Los Griegos. but on cross
examination said that they had SOM
trouble with the United States reve
I nue. officer and were made to tax,
out a government license.
Gregorio Torres testified to tn
/, sane statement Of facts as the prev
ious witness. but said that he ha,
J beard rumors that Perea and Apodac'
i were selling other than the native pre-
!, duct.
q. Juan Piedroncelli told the sam
story In substance and Justo Grieg,
} told Of buying beer there last Sunday
! also Of rumors that they had violat
J ed the law In regard to selling liquor
Perea and Apodaca have since takel
out a license to sell liquor. so tina
the fact Of beer being sold there wa
%immaterial.
: Afternoon Session.
The charges OF the sheriff charginl
for meals served to prisoners afte
being released were not substantiate'
) to any great extent as Lebada G. d
Baca, the principal witness for tn
prosecution. failed 10 p~articularize an
cases In which the prisoners were re
! leased and the meals charged for. H,
said nos Of his information wa
hearsay.
Mr.. Clancy told Of the charge
which had come to him from Baca
that he expected him to sustain tn,
charges he had made. Baca had bee
a prisoner in the county Jail and wa
pardoned by Acting Governor J. W
' Reynolds on December cath last. n
said that Baca had either misreprt
sented the facts then or now
In regard to the charge Of allowin
gambling In the county. without a !
cense, w. p. Metcalf testified that h
was at the last fair. had seen IN
frnnclndod m Dare Epur