Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1909-06-03
7HTLEBAUM CASE
MAY 60 TO JURY
TOMORROW NIGHT.
Territory Finishes Introduction Of Test
mony--D Defendant Will be Chief
Witness for Herself.

fession to the sheriff, detailing tt
him, all the facts in connection will
the crime-so that within twelve
hours after the murder of Teitlebaun
was brought to the knowledge of the
sheriff, he lad Encinias, Leandro Ro
nero and Estevan Dominguez behind
lthe bars Ia the county jail Later
romero, also made a confession to
the sheriff, telling substantially, the
same story as Encinias. The terri.
tory attempted to show by the sheriff
that he had received no information
from Mrs. Teitlebaum as to the mur.
der Of her husband, and that she had
not telephoned his office as soon as
she learned of her husbands murder
but the witness was unable TO saw
whether Mrs. Teitlebaurn had sent
MIN information as to the. murder or
not
Damaging Evidence.
The witness stated that he went to
the house CT the mother of the de-
fendant where the body of TeitIe-
baum was taken from the undertake
ing rooms, and he asked the mother
who had come from Tecolote to in
'orm Mrs. TeitIebaum of the death of
Ter husband. and that she replied
leandro Romero was the one who
old them about 1t. Witness asked |
he neither whether she did not sus-
ect anything of Leandro Romero,
nd the mother Of the defendant re-
lied, that when Leandro Romero
anne here, from Tecolote, he wanted |
0 talk by himself with Virginia, but |
he would not let him do so. Wit
less asked her why, and she said |
hat she had seen some things be-
ween Leandro and her daughter that
me did not like.
Testimony Of Encinias.
After some evidence by District At
Horney Ward, to show the loss Of
the confession of Leandro Romero,
which was in possession of the dis
trict attorneys office, and had mys.
teriously disappeared from his files
since the trial Of Estevan Dominguez
in June 1908.
corroborates story Of Romero.
David Encinias. one of the cocoon
spirators in the murder, now sewing
a life sentence in the penitentiary,
was called to the stand He is
a medium sized man, dark, COM
plexion, cross-eyed, and his con-
finement in the penitentiary for
the past year has given him a sallow
color: altogether he is not a very pre-
possessing booking individual. He was
examined by Judge Long, at consider.
able length, and told the story Of the
murder aorroborating Leandro Rome
ro in almost every detail. He said
that Romero first spoke to him about
killing Teitlebaum near the postoffice
in Tecolote three or four days before
the day of the murder. That when
he spoke to him, Romero had just
come from the postoffice. and had a
letter in ms hand, which bore the
post mark of Las Vegas and Of Teco-
lote; that Romero showed him the
letter and he read it. This was as
far as the court would allow the wit
ness to testify in regard to the letter
The court would not allow the wit
ness to state the contents Of the let
I ter, he having stated previously that
he did not know the handwriting OF
Mrs. Teitlebaum. Witness told Lean
dro Romero that he could not helT
him in the murder of Teitlebaum
that it was a very grave matter
Shortly after this conversation Lean
ldfo Romero and Estevan Dominguei
icame to the witness, and Romero told
them that Teitlebaum had consider
liable money in his house. and aftel
talking over the matter it was agreed
that the witness Encinias and Domin
guez should take the money; Romers
stating that he did not want any o
the money. but that he wanted t
marry the wife of Teitlebaumi Wit
ness stated that 1t was agreed tina