Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-01-13
AMADOR PAYS
DEATH PENALTY
Man Who Killed
Sweetheart Hang
ed at Dening
MET FATE BRAVElY
Execution, Which was First
Legal One in Luna County,
Was Private.
Special to the New Mexican.


Deming, N. M, Jan. 13.-Martin Am.
ador was hanged in the jail yard here
at 1892 o'clock this morning. The
trap was sprung by Sheriff Don John.
son and Amador was pronounced dead
In Is minutes, his neck being broken
by the fall The condemned man walk.
ed to the scaffold with firm step and
showed no regret for the crime which
resulted In his paying the death penal.
ty. The execution was private. but a
few persons Being admitted within the
enclosure of the jail yard where the
scaffold stood. Amador's body was
buried by the county.
Story Of Amadors Crime.
Martin Amador who was employed
as miner at Victoria, a mining camp
about twenty-five miles west of Dem
ing, was convicted of the murder OF
Conception Mendoza, who was for.
merly his sweetheart and whom he
killed while crazed with jealousy on
the night Of July II last He claim
ed to have been engaged to marry
the woman who 1t appears from the
testimony adduced at the trial had
been more or less promiscuous in
her love affairs.
According to the evidence brought
out at the trial the murder
was cold blooded and had been
premeditated or sofrne time. Jeal.
ousy was the only motive. Amador
shot his sweetheart from ambush be.
cause another had supplanted him in
her affections. He had become
madly In love with the woman and be.
lleved his love was reciprocated until
rival appeared on the scene In the
person Of Daniel Ramalrez. Ramairez
began paying attentions to the
woman and she had indicated a pref.
ence for her latest adlnirer which
made the Tilted suitor insanely jealous.
Shot Sweetheart From Ambush.
A quarrel eusued in which Amado:
warned his rival to quit the camp, or
at Least aesist in the attentions he
was bestowing upon the woman. 1t
appears that the warning was un.
needed and after the woman's work
was done that evening she was seen
by Amador to leave her own house
and 60 to the house Of his hated rival
This added fuel to the fame that was
burning In Amador's breast. He imme.
dlately took the one weapon of which
he was possessed, q 22-caliber rife
which he had used to shoot rabbits
He secreted himself benlnd a wagon
from which point of view he watched
the house of his sweetheart and
likewise that of her paramour. AT
about midnight after he had waited
for nearly three hours. he saw by
the uncertain light Of the moon some
one emerge from the house of the
latter and approach that Of the for
mer To make sure 1t was the woman
he waited until she was within thirty
feet or possibly less from where he
was concealed and then fired. The
bullet entered her left breast ant
passed through the lungs. She died
from the wound in less than an hour
Tried to Escape Into Mexico
Amador Immediately began a race
for his life pursuing a waivering
course in an effort to escape into
Mexico. Three days afterwards he
was apprehended in a mining camp al
the south end Of the Florida noun
tains where he had been previously
employed.
II At the preliminary hearing and
likewise in open court the man re-
lated the story of his crime and
attempt to kill his rival. He did not
attempt to conceal anything and told
a straightforward story of his fan
cied wrongs. There appeared to be
no extenuating circumstances which
might have served to lessen or miti
gate the crime.
The murdered woman had been run
ming boarding house at the mining
camp.
Was Native Of Mexico.
Anador was a native of Mexico. He
was thirty-lve years Of age and born
in the state of chihuahua. He came to
the United States In the spring Of 1902
securing employment as section
hand first at Douglas, Arizona, and
thence drifted to Phoenix and Globe
In January last year he came to New
Mexico, and went to work as a minel
at Leopold. mining camp In thu
Burro mountains, about fifteen milei
from Silver City. From Leopold hi
won't to Victoria