Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-11
JUDGE MEDLER
HOLDING COURT
IN LAS CRUCES
Many Cases of Interest Are
Disposed of at Session in
bona Ana County Record
Broken for Quick Jury

..r-,.t coHaGsPaHbEHcE TO MOANING JousNN
1as cruces. n. NJ, Dee. l0-Court
convened in this city Monday 81
which time all Jury cases were con-
inued from the September term As
usual criminal cases were given
precedence in the order of trial, and
n number of interesting trials have
bequ conducted
The first case to he tried was that
of Roman de la @. charged with as
sault with q deadly weapon. The de-
PENDANT was acquitted. but another in
dictment charging him with assault
with intent to kin is to be tried at the
next term of court.
Austin Beasley and JoiCy Beasley,
charged with the larceny Of a calf
the property of Jeff d. lsaacs "A
promiuent cattleman of this section,
were also acquitted after much evil
dence had been introduced relative to
the ownership of the calf found in the
possession Of the defendants
Touch of Wild West.
A touch OF the wild west of from
tier DAYS came out in the trial of Ia-
mon Aguilar and Bernardo Fuentes
charged with assault with intent to
XIII Fliseo Quintana. The affair out
III which the indictment arose took
place at La Union on Sunday night,
April II. of this year. II developed
from the evidence that an old-ume
rough house occurred in front Of a
pool hall in the course of which a
spirited gunplay resulted one wit
ness tcstifying that the shots We're
fired so fast he couldn't count them.
II also appeared that as soon as the
artillery fire began everybody
'ducked" and the comhatants had the
field To themselves. Fuentes was ac-
quilted, while Aguilar was found
guilty
During the course of this trial a
witness who gave his age as 6 years
and looked even younger, was placed
on the stand and testified to having
played pool in the poolroom during
the afternoon and evening of the day
that the difficulty took place. Judge
Medler Immediately ordered the pro-
pretor of the poolroom, Juan Valdez,
brought before the bar of the court
to answer to the charge of allowing a
minor to loiter in his place. Valdez
pleaded guilty to the charge and was
fined but sentence was suspended
during good behavior
Quick Work Getting jury
1t is doubtful if a jury was ever Sc
lected in capital case in SO short a
time as in the case Of d. II. Hollo-
way and Joe Mckinley, charged with
murder. From the time the pros
pectiye Jurors were sworn i'm by the
clerk until the jury was complete was
only seven minutes. The ease with
which the jury was selected was due
TO the fact that none of those drawn
for jury duty had heard anything
about the case. 1t will be remembered
that Holloway and Mckinley were
tried in Torrance county several
months ago for the murder of an Of
ficer who was attempting to arrest
them for an alleged violation of law
and that the result was a hung jury,
An important case to be tried upon
the completion Of the trial of Hollo-
way and Mckinley is that of seven
men who are charged with having
stolen copper bullion valued at $4,000.
A running fight between the men
and the officers occurred at the time
Of their arrest.
Court will continue throughout next
week, after which civil business will be
taken mn