Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-06-24
GuiIIenmo Matals Affection for
Infant Lures Him Back
Home, Where He Is Taken
Into Custody by McMilIln,
ADMITS THE STABBlNG
OF SlVLAN0 GALLEG0S
Seeks to Justify Killing Be-
cause He Was Drunk and
Says Victim Cursed Him and
Put Hand in Pocket

Guhlcmo Nat. who stabbed sn.
,nno Gallcpos. returned early last
nifht To see Mrs Marta Garcia's baby
his daughter he said--and chief OF
Police Thomas McMlnn caught him
Tho chief believed that Matn
would come back to srr che chiid.
The chief know that Mata loved the
child, which he claims as his. and.
believing Mata would Nilst his home.
which is not far from that OF Mrs.
Garcia, last night. he planned his
capture policeman in plain
clothes was stationed across the
street from the Mata home. $40 West
Tiieras avenue. where Mata lived
with his mother and brother.
Mata, however cuded the officer
The chiefs plans might have miscar-
ried " Robert Halstoad 10 years old.
2S3 North Walter street. had ne.
heard that the slayer was IN ths
house and ran to the chiefs office
The chief slipping revolver in hfs
pocket. ran TO the house.
The chief tried to open the front
screen door, but II was locked lie
could See the mother and brother sit
ting on a bed AZ the right Of the door.
lie thought at first that the boy had
mistaken M0tas brother for him.
eOpen the door, ordered the
chief The brother unlocked the
door and the chief entered with a
amtch The match flnred for the frae-
ton OF "A second and went ont, hut not
before he caught q glimpse OF Mata
sitting on the floor behind the bed.
The chief ran around the bed and
grasped Mata. but lie did not resist.
lie took Mata 20 police headquarters.
The word that he had been arrested
spread rapidly and large crowd
gathered outside the station.
Mata told the police that until
O'Clock Monday morning he hid I'm
large tank near the Mausard mills.
lie had To take or his shoes 70 get
out he said. lie said he did not see
Mounted Policeman Bernier after he
left the tank. but that he went TO the
home OF friend where he remained
until daylight.
At daylight, Mata said, he went to
the Menaul school and hid IN q cump
OF bushes He saw the automobiles
In which were undersheriff Dick
Lewis and the police pass. but he re-
manned In the bushes until small
snake drove him out lie killed the
snake with stick
Mata admitted 20 Chief McMillln
H.. gt.l mi.
man had caused trouble between him
ana the woman he wanted to marry,
he said. Gallcgos wanted them 70 be
married by priest but he wanted
to be married hy u justice. he said.
According To Mata. lie and Gallegos
quarreled when they met Sunday
night on the sidewalk on West IL
ieras avenue between Second and
Third streets He said that Galegos
was profane.
lie put his hand in his pocket"
said Mata. and | struck. II was dark,
couldn't sec whore ! hit him."
He had q clasp knife. which he
opened In his pocket while he was
talking TO Gallegos according to
Mam's statement Mata said he was
drunk and did not know whether he
struck the women, lie also said that
he did not know what he had done
with the knife. He said AT first thae
he was 80 drunk that he did not know
where he got the knife and what kind
Of q knife il was, but under rapid
questioning ne asserted Il was
pocket knife.
Alata said he ala not know that
Gallcgos was dead until his mother
told him when he arrived home last
night. She told him that the police
vorc looking for him and he replied
that he would wait there, he told the
chief He first told that he struck the
Old man once but later he said he
was so drunk he did not know how
many times he had struck.
You were not so very drunk, were
you2' asked Chief McMillin.
81 don't know how much | drank.
I was with a friend"
Alata said he had been in the house
only a short time when the chief
came.
"Why did you come baek?" asked
the chiet.
ITO see my mother
rs that ALE"
"To see my baby. too"
The chief smiled The statement
! corroborated his theory-thes theory
that led to the capture OF Mata.
Matas statements to the chief last
night indicated that he might plead
either drunkenness or self-defense
when he Is brought to trial.
The body Of Gallegos was seen by
hundreds of persons yesterday at
Strong Brothers undertaking estab-
ishment Funeral services viii he
held at O'Clock tomorrow morning
at the Church of san Felipe de Neri