El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-08
CASTLEDINE TRIAL AT
ALAMOGORDO BEGINS
witnesses Tell Of Shooting Of Vidal Duran
and Previous Attack Mrs. Castle
dine in Road by Mexicans.

and Previous Attack on MIS- OtBsAo-
dine in Road by Mexcans
Alanogordo n NJ Jan. Stalking Of
testimony has begun in the Irlal IN as
trict court here Of J. T. GaS I. WI" nc
Luz canyon on Christmas eve, 1919. The
town is full of people, many OF whom are
witnesses in court
other in La Luz canyon for several years
A large part Of the population OF the
canyon are MeXicans but Few American
families have settled there.
The witnesses examined BY the state
were: DR.. ]. R. Gilbert who was sum
AdOifO BorundO, PEG Reyes, William Ostle,
Mrs. william Ostic- The state then rested
HiIariO Madrid Testifies.
Madrid in substance testified that he
was on the road with three other Med-
cans when Castledine rode up on his horse
He asked him why he came around ana
said that Castledine hit him in the face
with some object and knocked him down.
He knew nothing more until some minutes
later. when he found himself in the road
Madrid said he went to his house, where
Duran was shot, and helped carry him into
the house. be claimed 70 nave IQuna Du-
rams six shooter IN the yaru aoout Two
hours afterward, which he said he took
into the house and laid on the Kitchen
table, and never told about finding it until
on the stand in this trial
Ostic Discredits Madrid.
Ostic, who was an eyewitness to the
shooter when he picked up the wounded
man. Madrid was apparently discredited
at the end Of his examination 5s3ii!
Mrs Ostic who claimed to have been an
eyewitness, testified that the deceased did
not fire a shot. Castledine claimed in his
testimony that Duran fired two shots be-
fore the defendant returned the fire, and
that the six shooter Of the dead man con-
tanned four empty shells and one cart
ridge. The pistol showed that it had been
freshly fired, he said
Ostic Claims CastIedine Shot First.
Ostic admitted seven or eight shots were
fired, but claimed that Castledine fired
first However, he said he was ahead Of
the road trying to stop the defendant who
was passing on his horse going home at
the time the shooting commenced, and that
he, Ostic, was excited
MS Castledine Tells Of Attack.
After the state rested, Mrs Beatrice
Castledine, wife Of the defendant, was
testified that while returning from La Luz
she met three bIeXicans in a seemingly in
toEicated condition, and was frightened
when one Of them started towards her.
She spurred her horse and rode rapidly
toward her home up the canyon and
reached it in an exhausted condition She
said she told her husband the cause, and
ne Immediately set out to learn who was
respOnsibible for the seeming outrage
Daughter Saw Duran With Pistol.
Miss Edna Castledine, daughter OF de-
PENDANT, testified that shortly before her
mother came in she saw Duran pass their
home in drunken condition brandishing
pistol.
After the taking Of testimony today the
case will be given to the jury.
Castledine has been a prominent farmer
and fruit grower OF the mountains
for several years He came here
from near Chicago. He is rep
resented by Holt & Sutherland, OF Las
Cruces. The state is represented by II. b.
Hamilton, Of CarrizozO, district attorney.
The Gilbert Shorter players held the
boards in the local lyceum course at the
Christian church