Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-03-03
KILLED FOR
HIS MONEY
TwoBoysC Confess to
Murder ofLincoln
Stockowner.
THREW BODY IN MINE HOLE
Good Work Of Sheriff John
w. Owen and Posse in
Unraveling the Crime.
Special to the New Mexican.

Special to the New Mexican.
Lincoln, N. NJ, March 2,-On the
10th day of January last, Marcelino
Carrenzo disappeared from his home
near Reyenton In Lincoln County. Car
renzo was a well.to.do man engaged
in goat.raising at the time of his dis.
appearance. On the evening in ques,
ton his herd of goats came to his camp
near his home without a herder and
search for Carrenzo was made by some
of his neighbors but, without avail
When this news reached Lincoln.
John w. Owen, the sheriff of the coun
ty, Immediately organized searching
party and went to Reventon and made
an examination of Carren2o's goat
camp near that place. The sheriff
found at the camp two boys each
eighteen years of age and named res
pectively, Aragon and Otero. They,
by their manner and speech, aroused
his suspicious. One of these boys had
given to a woman living near Reven-
ton an image that Carrenzo had been
in the habit of wearing around hts
neck This image was secured by the
sheriff and 1t gave him clue to work
upon The shariff concluded that these
boys had murdered Carrenzo, taken
this image and also robbed his re-
mains of the money he was known to
carry about his person.
Snow Aided Murderers.
AT this time, the snow about the
camp lay deep upon the ground and
nothing further was discovered to lead
to the finding of the guilty parties,
other than the fact that the goat
herd belonging to Carrenzo, who had
no family, had been divided up
amGns suirSe ~ t.iileg ..aopls living at BE
venton. On the 23rd day of February
last, the snow having partially disap-
peared from around Reyenton, the
sheriff with posse made another at
tempt to discover the body of Cas-
renzo
While on the ground near the camp
Of the missing man. at point In the
foothills about twenty miles from Re
venton, after having followed a wagon
| track and goat herd trail for this dis
tance which had been made, by Car
renzo's wagon and herd Of goats, the
body of the murdered man was found
In a prospect hole with bullet hole
in the back of the head, the bullet hav-
ing come out close to one Of the eyes
| When the discovery of the dead body
was made. the sheriff went back to the
Patos near Reventon and found Bias
Otero, one of the boys under suspicion.
at the ranch house of Juan Chaves y
| Trujillo, his stepfather. The sheriff
arrested the boy and TruJillo also
and left them under guard at ranch
nearby. He then went after the other
boy, Solomon Aragon, and arrested
him and his grandfather, Gonzales, at
a ranch about twenty miles away.
| All the arrested persons were kept
Separate during this time, not allowed
to talk to any person and the suspect
ed boys, Aragon and Otero, were taken
to the place where Carrenzo's body was
found; upon arrival there. a coron-
er's jury met and held an inquest over
the remains.
Both Boys Confess.
During the holding of this inquest.
Aragon and Otero identified the body
las being that of the missing CarrenzO
and the next day these boys were
larraigned before Justice O. the
Peace at Jicarilla, charged with the
commission of the crime. Shortly be-
fore their hearing commenced, Otero
Expressed his desire to talk to the
sheriff. The desire was granted and
he confessed to the murder and shortly
thereafter Aragon did likewise, both
Of them telling the particulars and the
motive, which was robbery They had
robbed the dead man and buried the
money, which they had taken from the
body of their victim, in two places.
| In the pursuit and capture Of the
murderers, who are now lodged In the
Lincoln County jail, Sheriff John W
Owen and his posse travelled over an
luninhabited section, camped out cold
nights with nothing to eat for man or
horse; they are deserving Of the
thanks Of the community in their Of
forts to bring the guilty parties to
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