The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-10-19

One November night in 1903 lose lose . Eai ao yign entered his t%T at
Tso1 0 N N ned ed for Ecr life from mt the house ~ vigil foIoo ID her her ond,
while their lt lie, sol placse d a, his 81. see we and ! '96 6 d., don't Ion ., XIII
fled that he had killed her. vsi lifted her head and fired two more
shots into her brain, snuinnE out the last spark Of life
cM h SooS.S TS rs as spHbS1 by m HT ST% I0 tbo 1t D T%s n %, . the ' stai most cruel
'"' WSn was 8" tried before a jury" After hearing the evidence Of this
ts %% v HI%0s 10 be be hanged 5%s o' Vsu 'rs S% to get ct a sp "oy ri ' and Che '% ap.
les, a snrSsoi paSie1fearaE that vigil nigh, by legal gq,cy
part an unlawful but melted justice then and there the authorities took
W. The supreme Court upheld the verdict of the lower court-tnot
m VaSR 'STnm soS5 a T Tssn Te %%r5eTl aG ovs snS ne M SHOULD b o G@o''1 10 oy Same lS
who is now running for state auditor on the Democratic ticket, commutcd
the law said was lit only to die miserabiy in partial expiration for his
a, That r. io a:aso, ss, Of a ,s' to- s. 'e soss b, was s.s %@s in 9o sS%SSgi' sa vi, Win p rho'
cratic e.. ,st !. :, !. q, -. - .,. ., ' Da,, ~ nn'' ,,-, ', ,o '.o, ., =. =, ,.a D' ,.
term W oi u Il im Ss1. no ,S ''s s.ut SSnss" to death HRF and %, .p 51p' 70 for 'T popi soi
sssiGS' EIGHT "a p" YEARS. 0issO Of 'I hi. = eF" tsrm o. he m %a an. 81, " fT%o Ne Hnr ma 10 s' ISis
~ Lieutenant Il. n%t,o Goyysrn NOR! F. G DC Bs's the I present candidate soeI for gov, soyer3 'Sr
same kind of a governor he has been. Mr. Mcdonald is in a position to
Yes, dc B.c. actually allowed this ruthless vitemgracrcr the rcrpo
the Ss3.%s; "a T.H; q ss s: s;S' e.; 3 ss,. on,.,s. III. .,,,. 70, , ,r,,,
whether "s% % Nc i knew WI :. 0 went AWAY a' mat sS DE- na S' Was ;" @o%r to to
facts but at any rate de Bocs Is acting governor poroied vigil and set
Th'} ! this %i:, GS5s. rs 1 IS No, ta s:..M ma be 1,assa from rom what Ia {, TO-
p proT%0 D N% tern nn Of fT% life TO , norm Tns months Sr :. on psca ? . n SaS been W,G gI'uH sc
doroa a man in Gannnas, a settlement in Rio Arhba county
yrons6, back and placed in the psn@Sntsry once more lie is IS there now
%,c, him o, w sGgsrGoF v 50 G, e, H.%ly ls y%" wit q nn'ST" =. a hS s,,%, muir NJ
n"'' % WoH'nf n " neC1use was n Irlenu, Ut n onUca ally
or were there other reasons:
de h 5s At @ mot Fe assn sso% TO . sSSsoas 's 9o1 v = he a %STs ss slsS' sst t tS mF
dercr loose now with two murders to his dscredtf
The Vigil case IL not the only instance OF de Baca officially doing a
good turn for the perretrator OF n horrible crime There is the matter
Of Prudcncio Martinez
In 1908 this PrudenCio Martinez and a man named Felipe Garcia
who was employed in e c. de Baca's printing office in Las Vegas. ono
night wRylaid and assaulted n girl on her way homo through n dark
street from the telephone eXchangn where she al employed. The crime
wa, a revolving one and public wrath at the degenerates who perpetratcd
i ran high In San Miguel county. Martinez and Garcia we're sentenced
70 twenty years n the penitentary.
After n short tmo, Martinez tried to get free on parole. The charra
bic Ginio Otero, chairman, and his parole board, recommended the pa
role OF Martinez In August, 1918.
Governor Mcdonald declined to sign the parole until May : Of this
present year, In the light OF what followed, tho question naturally arises.
did Mcdonald finally parole Martini at the solicitation OF f. c. dc Baca
who had given the wife murderer Vigil a parole?
In any event IS soon a Governor Mcdonald did parole MARITIME.
Lieutenant Governor do Bacn, hend OF the managing board Of tho e'ntn
tnson" asylum AZ Las Vegas gave him a job as cook At the asylum, u
20 shows o the parole record.
Thanks TO de Bacas patronage, the assaNant OF the little toleuNorg
girl was put on the states payroll to hold down a good lob at the ae.
lum. He was assigned 10 cook for and come in contact with those p'tful
charges TO whom society owes the best and most careful guard nshin II
"a afford to give, but the fate which has robbed them of thor minds
may at least keep them from realizing where de Daca's asylum board
recruits the men the state pays to look after them, and keep the Inmates
from a sense OF danger.
II he should be elected governor, would de Baca free the other as
sahnnt Of the telephone grl-Fshpe Garcia, who worked in de Bacns
printing Officer