Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-06-27

procure one In Santa Fe. We pre-.
sented ourselves, however, before the
attorney general this afternoon at
O'Clock and offered to proceed with
the hearing without stenographer,
Offering to swear our witnesses and
introduce their testimony for such
consideration as the attorney general
might see fit to give, and further of.
fering to rebut all material portions of
the evidence as heretofore introduced
by such documentary or record facts
as might be necessary. But we were
denied this privilege by the attorney
general, and informed that we must
proceed in the manner as indicated by
him, using the stenographer of the at
torney general, Mr.. Shearon, and
paying him such compensation as We
could agree upon, which are indicated
as such as to be prohibitory and out
of the question, but which Is not the
only reason for declining to proceed
as requested; additional reasons being
that it has become quite apparent that
our defense will not under any circum.
stances be permitted to be shown.
Attorney General Prichard stated this
afternoon that we must proceed under
the form indicated by him as he "pro'
posed to control the record" and that
we must con1ne ourselves to the line
Of defense indicated by him on yester.
day. Inasmuch as we have not been
permitted to put upon the record our
many legitli44.e objections to the eyi
dence and procedure, and such evi
dence as we have brought out In
cross-examination up to the present
time has been ruthlessly stricken out
of the record at the instigation and
pleasure of the attorney general, with.
out indicating on the record In any
manner our objections thereto, we
do not understand why we should be
compelled to pay out considerable
sum of money to make a record that
will obviously misrepresen, our side OF
the case rather than show the defense
we are ready, willing and able to pro-
duce. The conduct of the attorney
general in this respect and throughout
the hearing has been such as to indi'
cate a most unfair disposition and
determination to find against Super.
intendent Trelford irrespective of any
evidence whatever. He proposes and
directs that we shall hurry through
with a defense in which we shall con.
fine ourselves to limited number of
| witnesses -four out of nine of whom
are unavailable) named by him, and
pay for record at exorbitant figures,
which he admits he desires to control
and which controlled, as it has been
so far, will not represent evidence for
the defense, but will rather, appar'
emily, be distorted into making case
for the prosecution as represented by
Mr.. Prichard, in his capacity of prose.
cutting attorney, and which case for
the prosecution has so far not been
established, If the evidence heretofore
introduced is given fair consideration
For the foregoing reasons We desire to
take up the investigation and continue
the same, and We feel that we are en-
titled to a favorable answer to this
request by reason Of the conditions
surrounding the present so-called in.
vestigation.
We submit that this request be ia
vorably acted upon for the reason
that the testimony heretofore intro
duced by Mr.. Prichard, or at least so
much thereof as he desired to go into
the record is in writing and can be
referred to. and that we are only de-
sirous of answering the evidence as 1t
may appear upon the so-called official
record which we would have no diff.
Guilty in doing If permitted to do so.
But we further submit that we are
absolutely unable to answer the
charges that may appear In the Off.
cial record If we are to be required
to quietly sit by and permit the at
torney general to Control the rec
ord" dictate whom we are to call as
witnesses, whom we are to employ
as stenographers, and to further die
tate that we should be required tc
employ the private stenographer o.
the attorney general in order presum
ably that the record may be transcrib
ed in the Office of the attorney gen
eral and framed up In accordance
with his pleasure and dictates. If
however, you do not desire to desig
nate another to continue this investi
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