Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-09-19
PRAISE FOR
JUDGE M'FIE
Union County Bar Invites
Him to Preside in Fourth
District
A BUSY TERM OF COURT
More Business Transacted in
Two Weeks Than Ever Be-
fore in That Time
Special to The New Mexican.

Special to The New Mexican.
Clayton. N. NJ, Sept. 19.-Associate
Justice John R. .McFie, of the First
judicial district, departed for his
home in the capitol last night, having
practically closed one of the busiest
terms of court ever held in Union
county Owing to the election for
members to the constitutional conven-
! tion being held on the 9Th inst, the
members of the grand and petit jurors
were not called to serve until We'd
nesday, the 7th inst, at which time
Judge McFie arrived in Clayton and
opened the term. During the session
of ten days, three murder cases were
tried on the criminal side Of the dock.
ct. besides several criminal cases for
minor offenses, but ON the civil side of
the docket the court disposed of S5
cases, in trials, granting of judgments
and dismissals. Judge McFie held
protracted sessions, meeting at nine
in the morning, and holding night ses-
sions until ten and eleven o'clock at
night. Never in the history of Union
county has there been as much court
business transacted in so short time.
Justice MciFe adjourned the court un-
til Tuesday morning, September 10th.
at which time Chief Justice Pope will
be here and continue the term until
Saturday, the oath inst, trying only
civil cases. There has been vacancy
in the judgeship of the Fourth judicial
district for the past ten months, and
members of the bench have been re-
quired to do double duty, by holding
the terms in the various counties of
the Fourth judicial district, or allow
! ing them to lapse.
] Julian Torres and Juan p A. Mar
a tinez, two Mexican youths aged about
t "a and 23 respectively, were sentenc-
v ed to the territorial penitentiary by
0 Justice McFie, for not more than
thirty and not less than twenty-five
lyears. They were both charged with
= the murder of o. J. @. Adams. a ranch
e man living near Des Moines, Union
e county, occurring July Sfst OF tke
present year. Julian Torres pleaded
# guilty, but Martinez stood trial, and the
y Jury returned a verdict of guilty in
y the 2nd degree The testimony in the
cases showed a degree of depravity on
a the part of the two defendants, hardly
}. euualled in the history of legal juris-
y prudence. Both men testified that
e they were beastly drunk, having pur-
{ chased whisky at small saloon in
u Des Moines. They were both armed,
u with six-shooters. They had no mon
p ey, and the testimony developed that
they started out from the saloon to
"hold-up" and rob the first man they
met. This happened to be o. J. O.
Adams, an in-offensive farmer, who
I. had but recently come to the vicinity
e Of Des Moines, from the state of Iowa
e and had taken up claim of govern
e ment land upon which he was living
n with his family. In attempting to Roh
z, Adams, Torres and Martinez shot him
l. through the body and head, and he
s. died instantly from the wounds. The
e prisoners will be taken to Santa Fe
d next week by Sheriff Snyder and
e. Deputy ]. ]. Brophy.
G The grand jury returned an indict
t. ment for murder against Silvestre
e Torres, Apolonio Salazar, Agustin Sal
e azar and Patricio Mestas, and the de
q PENDANTS were placed under $4,000
l. bonds until the next term of the dis
e trict court.
n The defendants are charged with
numbering Reymundo Encinas at the
town of Buyeros, Union county, where
1.-THE defendants and the deceased re
sided, on the night of the 5th of Sep
tember Too much whisky was the
cause of the murder. A "juta" was
VI held at the Plaza Buyeros, on the
I night of September 5th, and some
! time during the night, the four de
PENDANTS got the deceased into room
e and there murdered him Dy stabbint
u hims with knives. Silvestre Toore'
was at one time probate judge of I'm
ion county.
Manuel Macs, after trial by jury
was found guilty of the larceny of TIVE
v horses, which he took from the rang
| of Juan c. Martinez, of near De
Moines. He~was arrested in Lamar
Colo, where he was trying to sell tn
III horses. He was sentenced to tw'
years in the territorial penitentiary.
Resolutions.
Whereas, Honorable John r. McFie
one of the associate justices of the su
preme court of New Mexico, acting il
~ the absence of Judge of the Fourtl
ay judicial district of said territory, ha
ID been holding the September, 1916
,s- term of the district court of Uniol
IL county; and,
he Whereas, We, the undersigne'
ry members of the Union County Ba
,'s Association, being all of the attorney
tn residing in said county, appreciatin
nd his honesty, ability, fairness and coul
ng tesy, and believing that we utter tn
,b- sentiments of the citizens of Unio
by county, in asserting that more bus
,at ness has been done during the pas
ill two weeks in clearing cr0wde