Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-01-05
MAP SHOWS
SCENE OF KILLING
Preliminary Hearing Of j. M. Morris
for Shooting Of Catalina Lobato
at Lamy.

~ oHootin9 OF Catdlino Lobato
at Lamy.
The preliminary hearing in the case
of the Territory VS.. John NJ. Morris,
charged with the murder of Catalina
Lobato, who was shot and killed on
the night of January /, was begun at
2 O'Clock this afternoon before Judge
John R. McFie. District Attorney r.
G. Gortner appeared for the prosecu.
tion and was assisted by Assistant Dis
trlct Attorney Benjamin NJ. Read. The
counsel for the defense consisted of
Colonel George W. Prichard and Cap
tain E. c. Abbott.
Territorial Irrigation Engineer Day.
Id M. White was the first witness call.
ed to the stand. He had been engag-
ed by the prosecution to draw dia-
gram of the lunch room in the station
eating house at Lamy in which the
shooting took place and testified sim
ply as to the accuracy of the map. Mr.,
White prepared the diagram yesterday
showing the interior of the lunch
room together with the relative posi-
tlons of the occupants of the place
at the time of the tragedy
According to this map which has
been introduced as evidence Catalina
Lobato had entered through the door
leading from the Office and Morris
was standing some distance away on
the west side of the lunch room. The
course alleged to have been followed
by the two bullets which took effect
is Indicated in red ink. In the dia-
gram is shown a table near the door
on which a lamp had been standing
and the chimney Of which had been
by one Of the shots.
Miss Carrie Clithergo, a waitress
employed at the lunch room, who was
)n duty there when the fatal affray |
occurred, was the second witness ex-
She testified to having been
sitting on one of the stools at the |
east side of the counter with her back |
.nrned to the defendant and having
seen two men enter the room by sep
trate doors with guns in their hands. |
One she said came through the door |
rom the office and the other by way |
>f the outer door from the railroad |
platform. She stated that she saw
me of the men fire shot and she be-
leved it was the one who was later
killed. She declared that she did not
see the defendant at the time as he |
vas across the room back of her. |
She did not know how many shots had
)een fired altogether.
Manager Charles Peaper of the
lextt called 70 THE witness srand. IRE
estified that he was not in the lunch
DOM at the time of the shooting but
vas in the office adjoining. He said
hat he heard one shot fired which
vas followed quickly by others and
ew minutes later man came back
ng out through the office door hold
ng a pistol in one hand and having
lis other hand against the side of his
ace. He stated that he had advanced
oward the lunch room door when he
heard the shooting but did not go
II as the man who staggered back
wards in the office bumped up against
lin and pushed him back towards the
ioor of the wash room in the rear
VI the office. He said that the man
hen went into the wash room and he
slammed the door after him Mr..
oeaper said that he then went into
he yard back of the hotel and looked
through a window into the lunch room
md saw the defendant leaning against
partition with a revolver in his
land.
Other witnesses who had been sub
)oeaned were Mrs. Peaper, wife of the
lotel manager; Ramon Lobato. broth
,r of the dead man; Joseph V. Barras,
he telegraph OPERATOR George Bath,
Fred D. Marshall, Fred Hammer,
Pablo Archuleta, Eliseo Romero, ia
,obo Valdez, Francisco A. Garcia and
.. G. Heron.
Mrs. Peaper followed her husband
On the witness stand but her testi-
mony was not important. Ramon Lo-
oato, whom the defendant is alleged |
70 have dubbed over the head with
he butt end of his revolver and which
IS said to have precipitated the shoot
ing. is probably the principal witness
Tor the prosecution He appeared in
he court room with his head ban
laged.
Norris sat in chair close to his
counsel and appeared to be following
the testimony closely. He seldom |
turned his eyes from the witness be-
ing examined and was not visibly af |
Tected by the proceedings. The court
room was crowded
AS the New Mexican went to press
witnesses were still being examined
and the indications then we're that the
hearing would not be fin
ished before Monday
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