Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-23
INVESTIGATION Of
KILLING Of bACA
ON MESA STARTED
About Half of Witnesses Heard
Without Startling Develop
mentsi Inquest to Be Con-
tlnued Today,

day afternoon in Justice d. Il. Salas'
courtroom at Old Town. New evil
dence was brought out but nothing
pointing definitely TO the Identity OF
1.-THE men who killed the rancher Of La
Canada. However. probably only half
OF the testimony has been heard. The
Inquest is TO be continued this morn
ing.
Faustin Garcia. who was brought to
Jail Sunday morning by Under Sheriff
Dick Lewis and Deputy Sheriff Que
rino Coulter, was released yesterday
He was a witness. He said, rclpond-
INK TO questions asked by Assistant
District Attorney II. 3. Jamison. that
I he saw lsldro Baca. the dead man,
and Eduardo Anaya. Baea's son-in-
law. in Albuquerque Saturday first at
the Bachechi saloon and later on the
streets. He did not talk to them.
Saw Body Beside Road: Kept Going.
He did not see them again until he
drove past Baca and his wife on the
East Central avenue hill. he said. The
| Bacas were going home in Il wagon
Anaya was In another wagon about
fifty yards behind them. 1t was then
about o'clock, according to Garcia
About 10 o'clock he saw Anaya
again. lie and two other men, whom
he did not know, were standing at
the point where the road to La Can
ada turns off from the Tijeras canyon
road. Garcia said he stopped at Mrs
Amelia Maurino's house in the high
lands, explaining why 1t took him
four or five hours to 20 from the point
where he first passed Anaya to tina
junction Of the roads
Anaya told him 10 stop but he did
not answer. He said he did not see
| Baca after passing him in the city.
After passing Anaya and his two com
panons he saw something like body
beside the road but did not stop. His
horses shied at the object, he said.
! lie could not distinguish whether the
body was that Of a man or woman.
Had Trouble With Baca.
Garcia told his wife when he
reached nome that he had seen a
body on the mesa but did not know
whether II was Il drunk man, he testi-
| fled. He first heard of the murder
from Juan Zamora, of Old Town, his
brother-in-law, who was at La Canada
early Sunday morning.
Garcia testified Baca had struck
him with a buggy whip several weeks
ago when theN,met on the road rum.
ming down the side Of the arroyo. He
said he did NOT threaten to kill Baca.
They had not been friends since then
The i'll feeling between them started
over Baca's fencing the road from La
Canada to Coyote Springs about two
months ago, according TO Garcia.
He had a shotgun about year ago,
Garcia said ut was a 12-gauge gun.
His wagon ran over it one day about
year ago when he was hauling wood
from Cedro canyon, So he burned IT,
The gun was on top of the load when
Il rolled off He said he told the un-
der sheriff he did not have shotgun,
thinking Mr.. Lewis meant possession
at the present time. He had never
seen any one else in La Canada with
a shotgun.
Gareias gun was a single-barreled
weapon. lie bought it at a second
hand store In this city. He did not
know whose place it was but believed
he could take any one to It,
Saw Garcia Oncc-Anaya.
Eduardo Anaya, son-in-law of Baca,
saw Garcia pass only once on the way
home Saturday night and that was at
the junction of the Tiieras canyon and
La Canada roads. His companions,
whom Garcia saw, were a boy named
Elfego who lives in the mountains
and Antonio Treas, of La Canada.
Treas was in his wagon and Elfego
was returning home in his wood wag-
on. They stopped to take drink be-
fore separating, according to Anaya'
HE admitted that he had had quite
few drinks" that day.
Anaya saw Garcia pass and asked
him to stop to have drink, but he
did not answer, the witness said. II
was about thirty minutes after Garcia
passed before he went home. Treas
went with him. They saw the body
of Baca about a quarter of a mile
farther on. Treas got off the wagon,
looked closely at the corpse and told
him II was lsidro Baca. Then he got
off the wagon, Anaya will continue
his story this morning.
All Friends in Settlement.
Narciso Ruiz, Jr., "A years old. son
of Narciso Ruiz. of La Canada, saw
Baca and his wife coming down the
slope into the arroyo in a light wagon
between and o'clock Saturday
night He saw him about an hour
later al his home He first heard of
his death when Under Sheriff Lewis
called at his fathers home Sunday
morning. He heard no shots Satur-
day night. Manuel Ruiz, g years old,
his brother made practically the
same statement He said in addition
to this that Garcia, his brother-in-law,
and Baca had no trouble. His father
and Baca were friends and so were
he and Raca, he stated He said he
thought Il was all right for Baca to
dam the water coming down the ar
royo Baca's home is above Ruiz In,
the arroyo.
Nareiso Ruiz. the father, said ne did
not protest against Raca's dammins
the water. He and Baca were friend
H. He had never seen shotgun at
La Canada. Zamora first told him
that Baca had been killed but he did
not believe il until told so by Mr..
Lewis. He had been told Raca hit his