Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-06
FATHER is ACCUSED
OF NUMBERING
own SON
SHOCKING STORY, SURPRISING EVEN
HERDD'S HORRORS, MAY Be RE-
VEALtD WHEN FRANCISCO RIVERA
Y UHi0STE IS BROUGHT BEFORE
JUSTICE SENA.
BABE, 10 MONTHS OLD
HAD 10 BRUISES

! to Rivera his 1S-months old boy, Fran
cisco Rivera Urioste is in the cit,
/ Jail where he faced reporter of the
New Mexican this mOrning Ions
enough to eXclaim: 81 have nothing
| TO say about this matter"
! The fact that mystery clouds the
death of the babe, and that it is
rumored two or three other little
brothers of the dead child died of an
unknown cause, one after the other
and all in infancy, lead many to be.
lieve that a Herod-horror may be re,
lvealed Thursday when Urioste faces
a hearing in the police court of Jus.
tice Nicholas Sena on the Canyon
road
An inquest was held Saturday and
the jurors brought in verdict that
the babe was killed by illtreatment at
the hands of his father
Alive at p. m. Friday.
From investigations made today it
appears that the babe was alive and
playing in the yard of the Urioste
ECme on College street at t D. IN. Fri
day when the little fellows 15-year
old sister came home. At 6 O'Clock
the mother entered the house, asked
where the child was and is said to
have been told by the father that the
babe was sleeping
1t appears that this was true-sleep.
ing the sleep of the dead.
A Horrible Night.
1t is said that when the mother re-
tired to bed she made the awful dis
covery that her babys face was cold
and peering into the open eyes saw
the message of death written therein
Horrilied at the ghastly discovery, it
is said. she was afraid to make an
fate. 1t is stated by several who
know the family that the mother
spent tie horrih1 <ig!lt in the agony
Of fear and even the next day made
the baby, Maria Antonio de Garcia,
refused to keep the awful secret and
il is said she told Colonel Jose d.
Sena, who lives on College street. a
story which led him to send for Police
Justice Nicolas Sena.
Empanes Jury.
Justice Sena at once empaneled a
Jury. Without resistance l'rioste sub I
tod to, ft,D 1t, E,e fhn
Acting City Marshal ]. A. Martinez
and was taken TO Jail The jurors
viewed the body of the baby and Dr. ,
J. A. Rolls was sent for to make
post mortem.
The jury brought in the following
'eport: !
Santa Fe, n. NJ, Oct. 4, 1918.
I'VE, the members of the coroner's
ury. empaneled by order of the JUS
ice of the peace of Precinct No 3, for
he purpose of examining the body of
Rivera. child of about one
ear and half after having heard
he evidence of the witnesses as to
he time and place of the childs death
nd having heard the evidence of Dr.
ames A. Rolls, having found Is dis
inctive wounds or bruises in the body
# said child, have come to the con-
lusion and it is our verdict that the
cath of the said infant Filiberto RI
era was not a natural death, but that
he said child came to his death due
nd owing to ill-treatment received
rom the hands of his father, Fran ,
isco Rivera Y Urioste.
Signed:
"NICOLAS SENA,
Justice of the Peace. 6
ALBERT GARCIA, :
MARCOS RAEL,
JUAN JOSE SALAZAR,
JOE ERWIN, f
RAFAEL GOMEZ, 7
JOSE D. SENA"
Bitten and Beaten i
In discussing the post mortem DR.. +
oils said this morning that the child
ad Is bruises on the body and 12 A
arks of old bruises or wounds. Some
the fresh bruises looked like bites
1ne by sharp teeth. and yet none of !.
rem seemed sufficient to have caused A
nath. "The heart, the lungs, the c
omacl. the spinal chord-all were q
jrmal" continued the physician, T
md ! am not able to say just what ]
fused death" The doctor added that n
the case of smOthering Of infants
e traces are not so clear as in the t.
lse of adults where a struggle leaves e
arks on the eyes. etc. %
That the baby was not starved to II
Aath was indicated by fairly well Il
body.
The question is now asked: WAS N
is unfortunate infant slowly tor
red to death, after Is months of bru
lity scarcely imaginable among hui d
an beings?" 81