Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-07-30
"UNWR|TTEN LAW" WILL
Be W0MAN'S
DEFENSE
Mrs. Perdltd. Who Shot Ia
Year Old Boy Held
Without
Bail.
Says SHE PROTECTED
DAUGHTERS HONOR
Peculiar Status In Shooting Affray
at San Antonito. SOCorrO Coun-
ty. Which May Result in
Victims Death at
Any Hour.

San Antonio. n. NJ, July 30.-
Especially THE unwritten law"
may be the plea of woman defend
ant at the next term of court in So
corro county. Mrs. Louis Peralta,
wife of well known native residing
at the town of San Antonito. a farm
ing community below the new town
of San Antonio, will be the defend
ant and should the boy she shot sun
day night die. that plea will un-
doubtedly be made in her behalf.
About 10 o'clock Sunday night Mrs.
Peralta shot Jesus Padillo, second
son of Tiburso Padillo, and the boy
is now lying at his fathers home at
the point of death.
Mrs. Peralta resides with her hus-
band and two daughters, one OF
whom is married but not now living
with her husband. she claims that
some of the boys of the neighborhood
have been coming around her house
at nights. knocking on the windows
of the room occupied by her daugh-
ters, and she issued a warning a few
days ago that any repetitions of such
actions would result in shooting.
Sunday night about 10 o'clock, she
heard someone knocking at the win
dow and she called three times, she
says, to see who was there, but re-
ceived no answer.
Fired mt Close Range.
She went into another room and
got a shot gun, firing at the intruder,
the whole load Of shot striking Jesus
Padillo in the body, he being only
about Is feet away when the gun
was discharged.
After probing four inches into the
boys body. DR.. Deifenbach, who was
hastily summoned, could find only
two of the shot the others having
gone deeper.
1t appears that the boy, who is
only IA years of age, was in COM
pany with his cousins, Antonio and
Estanilo Gonzales, and that he was
only just inside Mrs. Peraltas yard.
She says she had been annoyed by
another cousin of the injured boy
named Isaias Gonzales. whom she
claims had visited her house on sew
eral occasions, at one time even
breaking down a door, and she says
she mistook young Padillo for that
man. She had no intention of hurt
ing Padillo.
Held Without Bail.
Both Mrs. Peralta and her hus-
band had a preliminary hearing be-
fore Terrezo Lopez, justice of the
peace, yesterday morning and were
committed to Jail without bail to
await the result of the victims in
juries. Late today reports indicate
that he may recover, though his con-
dition Is very serious.
The Padillo family lives near the
Peraltas and the two families have
been the best of friends.
Mrs. Peralta feels must wrought up
over the affair but says she has been
so greatly annoyed by the frequent
knocking on her daughters room
windows that she felt 1t her duty to
protect them from further annoyance
and possible harm. She had no in
tention of hurting the young boy, but
as he was i'm her yard with the other
two, she believes a jury will promptly
acquit her of any crime, because she
was only protecting the honor of her
family.
Her daughters have borne good
regulations and the only trouble that
has come to them outside of this af-
fair was the parting of the eldest and
her husband, many of the people OF
San Antonio siding with the girl.