Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1909-06-19

was hot on their trail, arrested them
in Rociada They we're each given 1S
months in the penitentiary.
Al Apodaca. man about so years
of age. who was the oldest one, of the
prisoners in; court, and who was in
dicted for the larceny of horse Of
T. T. Turner, tried and found guilty
+ by the jury, stated to the court when
asked if he had anything to say. that
he was not guilty of the charge
against him, that he had bought the
horse from stranger, but could not
tell the name Of the man from whom
he made the purchase. When Apoda-
ca had his hearing before Justice OF
the Peace Murray. he made the same
defense. and Justice Murray allowed
him to go and hunt the man from
whom he claimed to have purchased
the horse. He left the room of the
| justice of the peace and failed to re-
turn. and was taken into custody
some months Ioter by Sheriff Romero,
in the vicinity of Ute Creek Judge
Mills sentenced him to 2h years in
the penitentiary
Donaciano Lujan, young man 20
years old. indicted for forging the
name of Mrs. Tomasita Bustamente,
of Upper Las Vegas. to three orders
for goods and money. aggregating
about $1,000. on which forged orders
he received goods and money from
the store of Margarito Romero. was
the next prisoner to receive his SEN
Itence. Wien asked by the court why
he had forged the name of Mrs. Bus
tamente OIL the orders, he stated that
"he had made a mistake" The court
asked him how he happened to make
the same mistake on tn zee different
occasions, to which he replied he was
drunk, and did not know exactly what
he was doing. The court told the
prisoner that his mother and father
had called to see him several times
and were very much distressed at his
action; that the maximum penalty for
his offense was five years, but he
would take into consideration his
youth, and this being his first of
fense. and impose sentence OF one
year in the penitentiary.
Juan Romero. of Santa Fe county,
plead guilty to carrying pistol at a
lsnce given near Rowe in San Miguel
and received sentence of SO
lays in the county jail.
Pedro Montoya, who had plead gull
" to an assault with deadly weapon
and to shooting in the leg man
named Juan Esquibel, was given 2
years in the territorial penitentiary. |
Juan Ccrtinas, young boy. 1S
yeArs Of age. who plead guilty to
forging the name of Jose Miguel Me-
dram, and presenting the same to
Daniel stern of Stern g Nahm, upon
which he obtained $500 worth of
and money, received a
sentence OF one year in the territorial
Juan Chavez and Felipe Busta-
mente, who were indicted for stealing
and killing a beef, the property of
n1@n;<5x nnao ~ Con M;0ro1 oounfv
and Who plead guilty to the charge,
stated that they had nothing to say.
except that they took the beef and
killed it because they were in need
of food. They were each given one
year in the penitentiary.
Leopoldo Montoya, the young IL
year old son of Florentino Montoya,
town clerk of West Las Vegas and
who9on June End, shot and killed the
young son of Juan Tafoya Of precinct
No. 8, was called before .he- court and
sentence suspended. From the evil
dence presented before the grand jury |
it developed that the shooting was ac-
cidental. and the district attorney |
recommended that sentence be sus-
pended in the case
Vicente Trujillo. who was convicted
by the trial jury of unlawfully dis
charging pistol within the limits of |
Las Vegas. got one year in the terri |
torial penitentiary. He is son of the
late Porfirio Trujillo. who terrorized |
the citizens of the county of San Mi
guel some years ago, and who finally