Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-18
VIGIL AND BACA DENY
ANY CONNECTION IN
SALAZAR CONSPIRACY

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tRt nlsnt session Attorney A. b.
l,enrnan. for the defense. indicated
mat %, did NOT care Oh can them until
tomorrow forenoon but Judge Pol
lock insisted on the nisht session.
ID was deemed significant that early
thls afternoon General Sa.azar was
i excused Js 90 witness and left Tor Al
puQu,rque this afternoon
When thc court took recess for sup
I per trinidad e. dc Eacu, state game
ana iish warden was on che stand. HE
described mhutriy his movements
from inc Time Ire left Santa Fe. No
Fem'er %. lslf, for Albuquerque. uu-
t'l after the evening of Salazr's es-
cape he testified that his wife was
with Nun ON the journey which was
MADE ln hIs automobile On arriving
IN AlhuluerQue IN the afternoon, he
said they Went 70 the home OF Man
{ uei Nlsu hut found mo- one ln' Al
Ter supper they met Air. and Mrs.
Celestino otero, and Otero introduced
ms VII. Co de- Baea
went TO Nigil's House.
I The four then went go Nieils house
m de iaeas automobile, he said. Tire
I Nllhess sald Ing mad first met vigil JIM
clayton seventeen years ago, but had
never before peen introduced TO Mrs.
'tero. lie also testified tnat he did
not know General S1lazor except 10y
Sisnt ON the nisht of the escap'. he
seid, he had been m the Graham
orolhers saloon from shortly after 4
1 ''locN until q Young newspaper man
I 1"'"e ~ ana announced that 0d-
l'ar had escaped. The witness re-
NAMED ten minutes longer and then
| ieIJ Tor lhe combs hotel across the
5'IteI El'go F1ca, who had been
win hin' renamed in the OAR room
i w 'h'sS SAID mat when ne arrived
t Ilhe 'olhps motel he-W'nt 20 EieEe
h'c' : ROOM Wllch pc round open
/ ne lt1l h"l' Ior l1lteSo ana then
returned TO nus own room Later tn
'le hlb"l LIieso came TO lrihldad $
room hut trinidad ala not get out
OF ped
reason for Trip.
Ihe witness sald that he went To All
| pupuerque because Mrs dc Baca want
ed TO VISIT Mrs NigH, VINO, several
months before, had lost child
through death' and that he remained
IN Albuquerque after his Wiie mad
gone To santa Fc ON the l9th' to at
tehd the educational convention He
denied cateBorleally that ne was m
any way or manner connected with OF
cognllant of any conspiracy To lib
crate Salazar
inc greater part Of the DAY was
spent by witnesses for the defense
seeking to establish an aIibl Tor the de-
tehdants' following them in their
movements during the latter part OF
November and also assailing the repu-
tallon OF Mrs. CeIestino Otero, The
star witness for the prosecution.
Juuse Heroert y. haynoIds anu
Thomas X. D. Madison testified that
NislIs reputation is good. &. Ruppe
testllied that the reputation OF Jaier
Carlos Armilo is good
carlos ArmlJo was recalled to the
stand ana SWore that NE was certain
mat Ceie5llho otero mad not been one
Of ms assallahts; that ne knew otero
Wei because Otero had oeen arrested
ny MN lor selling medicine without a
incense ana kept IN Jan Ior some tline-
On q dlasIaln OF the gan premises AT
mlJo picked out the renee post 10
Whlch ne had been ued' ne SAID, ny
ms assallaht on November 70
Ragged Sola lueh'illcd'
roman EcheNlrira, a Spahiard by
blrth, VINO succeeded otero as care
taKef OF the Nlsll rahch testliled thal
otero was Spaniard by plrth' lie
ldehtltied an old ragged SOFA tnat was
brought INTO the court room az one
that he mad found IN the harness
room the night he took charge OF the
vigil ranch' when was on December
20, l9l4.
>. II. LauDaeh' manager OF me But-
lrr garage in Albuquerque s"orc thot
Trinidad dc Baca automobile was IN
his garage all nlsht ON November ~
from 9 O'Clock on
Hceman Of FL paso. now working for
That S Mrs. 0tcros reputation o' both as