Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-17
Cipdano a Vieyra Clasps Last
Few Seconds After Police
Reach Him Without Nam
ing Slayer.
ARREST MAN IN WHOSE
ROOM HE WAS SEEN
CamiIo Arriaga, However,
Says He Was Asleep Sew
eraI Hours Rent Collector
Declares He Was Not.

The police, infosm med that man
/ had been shot near the brick tenement
( house at i28 east street shortly after
/ = O'Clock last night. found Cipriano
\ Vieyra of Guanajuato. Mexico, dyinl
from bullet wound in the abdomen,
I about fifty yards west Of the building
Nieyrn was unconscious when Pa
trolmen Martin Ryrncs and Jose T.
Z Salnzar reached him. and seeing &c q
I glance that ne Was past aid. they hur.
1 Red To the house, hoping 10 find thc
man who had shot himA Captain Pal
OGrady, who arrived few minutes
later questioned Vieyra, but he only
groaned without opening his eyes
/ Snow 1rampled Around Body.
I Nieyra was lying on his back Hs
( hat WIS damned down on his head
4 from tho force OF the fall Near his
( right hand was an open pocket
! knife There were many foot prints
1 in the snow and around the body, and
| il was Impossible to tell whether q
struggle had taken place.
There was no blood on the snow.
The bullet evidently severed a large
artery IN the lower part Of the abdo-
men, causing an internal hemorrhage
so serious that the man probably did
not move from where he fell Ten
ants of the house reported they heard
| three shots. but there Was only one
wound
The police carried Vieyfa to his
room IN the house and ne died there
shortly after Or. l.. g. Rice, city ply
stefan, arrived. lie had occupied the
room for five months with Sisto Gu
tlerrcz The small apartment. lighted
with u kerosene lamp. was squalid.
Several packages Of groceries which
they bought yesterday evening were
on the table. The man had been paid
Friday aud laid in the store of pro-
visions.
Woman Is Arrested
Byrncs and Salazar found Camilo
Arrlaga, an old Mexican. and n woman
who gave her name ms Maria Herman
dez, and who said She was his Wife,
apparently asleep IN room No. ,,
where Nieyra was seen q short time
before he was killed. Atriaga was
lying on the he'd with his overcoat on.
lie told the policemen he had been
asleep since s o'ciock and knew moth
Ing of what had taken place. The
woman also said she had been asleep
for several hours They were locked
In the city JAIN. In separate wards,
Charles Phillips. a Laguna Indian,
who collects rents for j. NJ Sandoyal,
owner Of the house, said he Went to
room No ? last night to get the rent
and found the occupants quarresome
so he went away without getting the
money lie saw Arriaga and Nieyra
In there. he said. He did not know
their names, but indicated them to
the police by the numbers of their
rooms There were several others in
the room. They had been drking,
someone was strumming q guitar and
others were singing, Phillips said.
Heard Three SLOTS,
Phillips later heard three shots, ev-
identity fired from revolver and
telophoned 20 the police station from
Sandoyals home. Byrnes took the
can. shortly afterward captain
OGrady was told by a man who was
coming up town that he saw Nieyra
dying by the side of the path leading
from the mousse at 80 20 the Santa
Pc yards. Patrolman Tony Gucvara
got another report and also went TO
the place. as did patrolman Pablo
l.ujnn, SO that within a few minutes
after the shooting five policemen We're
on the ground
First Inquiries netted the police but
little information No one knew even
the name Of the dead man. except
that he was called Cipriano. They
found letters IN his room, addressed
to Ciprlano Nieyra They were post
marked Fort Madison In.
Arriagn's room was searched but
no weapon was found there. Arrlagn
Is section lahorer employed by the
Santa Fe lie was left In Chief Nc
Mullins office until the chief would
have ID chance to quiz him.
Goes To sleep in station.
While the chief was waiting for an
interpreter Arri0ga fell into doze
and snored distinctly audibN AFTER
the examination he sat with his hands
TANNED deep iu his trousers pockets
and With his somhrero shading MS
eyes, which closed now and then.
CAPTAIN O'Grady and Pauolman
Guevara questioned the woman nnnrt
from Arriaga. but found out little
from nor that threw any leht ON the
killing She was IN room No from
o'clock until Hyrnes and Salazar
came However. she was asleep all
the time, she said she stretched out
op n bench In the chiefs office while
waiting FOR the Interpreter,
she was locked In the woman's
ward and Arrlaea IN the mems side
Neither knaN that the other was held.
Arrlnga said Phillips did not come
10 his room. The police say how
ever. that he ala and that Arrlaea
started to quarrel with him
Antops, 60 Re Held
Nleyrn WINS about su ef 81 years
ald ne waa unmarried We had ma
Relatives bore and whether ho had any
m Mexico. the puloc were unable tol
learn from hls Friends to probably
had Boon Through kansas ana Iowa,
reWumre hrlv about f,, M1nih afn
The baa aas taken la fred nfal
laI uaderlHhlnE MoW An auldpsf
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