Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-12-08
SOCORRO COURT
|. HOT AFTER LAW
BREAKERS
Judge Parker Has Not Yet
Sentenced MurdererS SdiS
and VdlleS.
QUEEN PLEADS GUILTY
HISTORY OF HIS CASE

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o Special to The Evening Citizen. q
SoCorro. Dec. S.-The territor- .
. ial grand jury of the present .
. term of the district court ex- :
. poets to wind up business today, .
. in time to be discharged by the Z
. court this afte rnooc, but, if not 3
3 will be in session only day or I
q two of next week SO far fif- 4
. teen true bills have been return 4
ed and the court will be busy Z
3 one 4
Up to noon today. Judge Par I
. ker had not passed sentence up I
. on the murderers. Carlos Sais I
and Eliseo Wales, the two sheep 4
3 herders who, last September, I
. shot and killed John Billingslea I
. and William Mclaughlin, the I
: particulars of this awful double I
. tragedy having been told at the /,
. time of its occurrence and since I
. the conviction of the two men I
8 in the columns of The Evening T,
. Citizen.
1t is pointed out by Judge Par
. ker's many friends, who are loud
> in their praises of the manner il
3 which he has expedited matters
3 in the case of the two murder
q ers, that he will allow no mock
. sympathy to interfere in his
8 duties, but that just punishment
3 will be meted out to these Grim
. insls when they are called up
3 before him to be sentenced.
Wales. some claim, is of a
) weak mind. He is nevertheless
3 guilty, and, while he may not
3 have been the real instigator
3 of the. double murder, he should
. suffer the penalty to an extreme
. limit, at hard labor, in the peni-
. tentiary Sais was found guilty
. by the jury, which heard the evi-
. dence to murder in the first de-
gree, and there is little doubt in
. the minds of the people but that
3 he will be sentenced to hang.
Richard Queen, who was in
. dicted during the week for as
. sault with intend to rob, was
Q brought into court yesterday
. afternoon and plead guilty to the
. charge. Readers of The Evening
. Citizen are no doubt familiar
with the details which lead up to
8 Queens arrest. Last July. Queen
. in company with Thomas Craig
. both cowboys, rode up to the
. ranch home of Jose Baca Y Cas-
. tillo, about thirty miles from
/ . Magdalena, and, claiming to be
. hungry. were given food. The
. men acted suspiciously and the
. son-in-law of Mr.. Baca, believing
. that their visit meant mischief,
. went to his house nearby and
. secured a gun. Returning to the
. Baca's house, he found Craig as
. saulting the old man with a six
. shooter, and Queen busying him
3 self by looking around the room
: for alleged hidden money. The
. sOcin-law pulled his gun, and
fired moTtally wounding Craig,
. whose death resulted short
. time afterward. Queen attempt
. ed to pull his gun, but a shot
: from the gun of the son-in-lsw
. coming uncomtortably close,
caused him to break away in
. run. One bullet fired at him as
. he left the house slightly wound
. ed Queen in the leg, but he kept
. on running. Officers several days
. later arrested Queen, and he
. confe ssed, stating that he and
. Craig had been told that Baca
: kept his money az his house and
robbery was their motive for
. calling and assaulting the old
. man, which resulted in the kill
: ing of Craig.
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