Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-22
TALMAGES MUST
STAND FOR TRIAL
Change of Venue is
Denied by Judge
Mann.
IN j. S. COURT At ROSWELL
Placed on Docket for April
Term-.-More Develop
ments Looked For.
Special to the New Mexican

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Roswell, N. NJ, Dec 22.--The appli
cations for change of venue by Il
l.. Talmage, e. r. Talmage and B. II
Talmage, all of Chicago, operating ,,n
der the firm name Of the Southwestern
Land Company at Roswell and In
Chaves County, and against whom
twelve indictments are pending in the
U. s. District Court for the Fifth Jul
dicial District charging them with
conspiracy to defraud the United
States in land cases, perjury and su.
formation of perjury and which ap.
plications were heard before Associ.
ate Justice Edward A. Mann, in the
United States District Court.
After exhaustive arguments the peti-
tion was denied and the defendants
will have to stand trial in the Fifth
Judicial District.
Cause of Trouble.
U. S. Attorney w. H. H. Llewellyn
and F. c. Dezendorf, special agent of
the general land office, in charge of
New Mexico and Arizona, appeared for
the United States, the indictments
were found upon the testimony of wit
nesses, who admitted before the U. S.
grand jury that they had been in
duced by defendants to go to the Pc
cos Valley and to make desert land
entries in the United States land Of
flee at Clayton upon public lands ana
therein to make statements which
were not born ont by facts and which
were, therefore, untrue. Under ex-
listing United States laws, this cOnsti-
tutes subornation of perjury.
3. Fl. Talmage, one OF the indicted
persons, acted as witness in several
of these cases. In his case the par.
ticular counts in the indictments
charge him with swearing that he had
no interest in the land entries, when,
in reality, he did SO have.
Why Wanted Change.
uG dllce,dtlOHo Wy uCICuutthto "iiu
upon which their applications for
changes of venue were based that on
account of the excitement and the
great interest taken by the community
in these land cases and the prejudice
existing, the defendants could not OBJ
tain fair trial
Judge Mann heard the arguments
and the evidence submitted very pa
tiently and thoroughly and then made
an adverse decision. The amount OF
land, at present involved in these
cases, is not great, but, at this investi-
cation, the land officials and those OF
the department of justice are OF the
opinion that attempted frauds OF mag
nitude will be discovered and shown
up Owing to this investigation, all
the desert land entries in three town
ships, namely, l3, IA and Is south,
range IS east, have been suspended
and are now being carefully inyesti-
gated by special agents of the general
land office.
In Artesian Belt.
The lands being in the Artesian belt
and in one of the finest food and cereal
raising sections of the Territory, are
very valuable and after government
titles to them have been obtained
would sell all the way at from $50 to]
$50 per acre. The cases against the
Talmages and the other persons In
dicted will come up for trial in the
April term OF the Fifth Judicial Dis
trict Court before Judge w. H. Pope
and will no doubt attract great deal
of attention and will be watched with
much interest by the people OF the Pc
cos Valley and Of New Mexico.
The defendants are represented by
the law firm of Richardson Reid and
Hervey and U. s. Bateman.