Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-13
MUST HANG FOR
MURDER OF WIFE
MEXICAN DECLARES HE WILL
DIE GAME
Conviction Secured in Less Than Six
Hours, Which Is Record
Breaker for a Murder
Trial

Adelfine Albitre, on charge of murder
of his common law wife, was yesterday
found guilty of the charge in the first
degree by a jury in department one Of
the superior court after they had de-
liberated on the subject less than twen-
ty minutes. No recommendation was
made and the court has no other al
tentative than to sentence Albitre to
be hanged for his crime.
Francisco Ramiriz, the murdered
woman, had many relatives in Mon
rovia and they have all demanded that
her death be avenged. Albitre has been
known as a desperado. Many of his
friends and relatives are wild people,
hard to handle and desperate to the
last degree and 1t was only by chance
that the desperate man was captured
without someone being injured.
On the morning of September Abb
tire returned to his home after a de-
bauch in which he had expressed his
intention of being revenged on his wife
for remarks he declared she had made
about him few days before. He bor-
rowed a big revolver and when he
reached his home he threw the gun on
the bed and went to sleep, waiting. for
daylight before committing the crime,
according to evidence at the trial.
Tries to See Daughter
AS soon as he awoke he walked out
in the yard. His wife was standing
near the fence with her little girl by
her. Albitre walked up to her, caught
her by the shoulder and Whirling her
about so she faced him is alleged to
have fired straight at her face, the
bullet tearing through flesh and bone
and ploughing through the skull, and
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bullet into the womans head. For
nearly mile he dragged the body of
the woman with him, then dropped it
to escape a posse sent after him and
managed to reach San Diego. On
Christmas day he went to friends
house in San Diego under promise that
there he light be allowed to see his
little girl, the only creature he loved.
He was captured by an officer who
was watching the place and who man
aged to get drop on him before AL
bitre could pick up the heavy gun be-
side him.
Yesterday Prosecutor Fleming Gre
ated new record, securing a convic-
ton for murder in less than six hours
the former record being made by Capt.
Fredericks, the district attorney.
Refuses to Tell More
Yesterday morning a jury had been
secured and all the evidence for the
prosecution had been presented at the
hour of the noon recess. Albitre at
first decided to plead guilty and throw
himself on the clemency of the court,
but the fear that he might be hanged
by order of Judge Smith when a jury
might give him a chance, held him
back and he went to trial. He was the
only witness in his own behalf and as
soon as he told the story of his actions
the morning of the shooting, he sud-
denly threw up his hands and ex-
claimed:
II have told all that will tell, let
these men judge me now as 1t stands,
for L can tell no more"
By three o'clock the Jurors were
ready for instructions and by half past
three they had retired to the jury box.
The verdict of first degree murder was
returned within twenty minutes.
Albitre laughed grimly as he heard
the verdict and grinned as he saw the
handouts clicked over his wrists.
"I'll die game" he said to friend in
Spanish, and that was his only COM
ment.