Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-03-31
Man Charged With Wife Muir
der Dragged From Cell in
Santa Fe Jail and Given
Summary Punishment
KEYS ARE TAKEN
FROM JAILER CL0SS0N
Both English and Spanish
Spoken by Members Of
LyChing Party None of
Whom Is Identified,


Santa Fe March 3t.-Ndolf0 Pa
dilln, whose wife, Itcfugia nlca PA
dllu. wn, murdered by having her
throat cut last saturday afternoon
and who has been la iail since chnrg-
cd with the crime. was taken from
the Santa Fc county Jail this morning
~ I o'cl0el, hN mob Of masked men
Nariousll estimated at from twenty
to fifty IN number. dragged to the
nearest street corner aud cut and
hacked with kniVcs and rakors in al
most The identical manner that his
wife received her death wounds. Pa
dilla did not die at once. hnt At 2:3O
O'Clock this morning bis life has been
dcspaircd Of and a priest Is IN attend
anCc to administer extreme nnction.
Feeling intense.
Since the commission OF the crime
last saturday feeling has been intense
in the neighborhood where the MUIR
dcred woman formerly lived, and nu-
mcrou- threats To- lynch the accused
man were made, but it Wus thought
that this feeling had a. Cd great extent
subsidized and mo- grave fears of mob
violence were entertained
,lailer Thomas Closson. the son of
~hcrn Charles CloSsou. was 100 charge
as usual, with no assistants tu keep
charge of The iail il not being consid-
cred necessary under the crCuni-
stances When the mob made it's APP
pcar1uCe hc was completely taken by
surprise, ana no dtfhguiB vds exIitgt-
enccd by the masked mtn Il Oycr-
powering him and taking tho keys of
the Jail away from him
Dragged to Corner
The men composing the mob were
grim and determined Few words
Wcrc spoken. but from What little was
said, Iailer Clusson was able To statr
that both English and Spanish was
spoken hy the members of the party.
Covering ana shrinking. padilla
was dragged from his cell and taken
20 the nearest street corner, dis
tancc Of from twenty to thirty yards
from the entrance TO the JAN. There
the mob proceeded to Wrcak its ven
ueance upon him hy nnicting upou
him the same sort of wounds as those
from which his lS-Near-old wife died
two days ago. His throat was cut and
he was otherwise stubhcd ana hacked
with knives Four shots were fired hN
the mob but early this morning it b.
not known whether amy uf them took
effect I'm Padilla's body
The mob then left its victim bleed
ing away bis lifc lie was Immediate
lv removed to the Jail and pr }. NJ,
biez was summoned Tho physician
at once stated that Padilla had no
chance whatever FOR recovery and "a
priest Nas sent for 20 administer TN"
last rites to- the dying man
Preliminary Trial Wednesday.
Arrangements had been made 10
give Padillu preliminary trial on
wednesday morning. II rs certain
chat this would have resulted in bind
ing him over to the grand jury as
the evidence against nm was consul
cred very strone.
During the term Of the district
court which has only recently ad-
iolrned three murder trials took
placc I'm one of these the accused
plcaded guilty to second degree muir
,dcr and wis given penltentiaiN sen-
tence. while the other two were ac-
.uuitted. Tho occurrence of this trag-
,dv so soon after public attention mad
been focused ON other h0micides. Is
believed 90 have had much to do with
Influencing feeling AGAINST the ace
oused man