The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-10-20

s,,s one \ NG H og 5 n5Ee, in 1898 % hose hos r E@l' ,%ao W y%t ass n' s5,s, hts its s s% cs at
Tine n, Woman @@g rEd. for ,n her rnm life from % H.. house yai . followed l, ar an" nd
l"d" IRa, he" had a' NT meI" nr ' T%I PT nns !" 6 @'f GoaS Sn ,4 ar e@' i 1%o I mor
shots into her Brain H%F snuGinp rour" me- last spars Of n%" "" 'o "'
c,,r go@ I aa 6 5p1I",r 10y m rT Sr rum" ,a II WAS "a [", OF OF me nos crn'
Nigt, Ms tried before a jury After hearing the evidence Of mis-
fenced yrn TO be hanged vpg tried o GO, a NO" trial. and then np
Les, an ,n%sea pogi,c, tearing ina, Nrl might by legal .us,sy
part un unlawful but mgrtcd justice then and there, the authorities took
The supreme court upheld the verdict o the lower cout-tar
neck until dead. Then Territorial Governor Miguel A. oero. the same
Eho j, no." wnnnr or sn,e andi'or Oh ie nr"@l"ue ticket commui.l
IN, law said was fit only to die msoahy in partial ovpiaton for his
wa. T to ,, 1saooq hon, Of 1 @s 'o E. ' %om was m %ms in % co%pers ion w, rln rngt
vrl was sent to the state penitentor hpn il. 1905 to begin hi.
Only riGuT YEARS of his T %' 5t@rm "I he "1 was S Set " G%c AZ %pr %I TO- 1872
on the D"mo,rotic acket-aSo V"G C. " Mcdonald Donald ga"" Would l' make %ct tr
same kind OF a governor he has been Mr. Mcdonald is in a position to
Yes. de Roco actually allowed this ruthless utcmurdcrcr the rorpc-
Governor " G Mcdonald had gone oqntae the stat for a brlof
y,Sl ana IIglenant Governor = G. de- baca Mas acting governor
whether Mcdonald knew when he went away that de noca Was going to
tacts-bu at any rate de raca is acting governor, paroled Vigil and so'
.ora THAT !, ' @5.,g g@rps ,s asG G, , tafrr1cao1 gng r be %asc% n rg".s g4 Ia. ,% r.
"19' instance s oc@S of onic Ru"a action n'I lo faTo~ r' the %ar%%rcr. ' f"r aT 1g mis- his
g2,oo""' mis- .% ,o nj" Of "@ arc to f ,"r% n man, "'m"I , 'i nrr. D." n ,a o" v gIr mr
aoroa a man in GalHnas, a settlement in Rio Artba county
nronrnt back and placed in the pgnitcn,tar' once more He is moe nov
Why was F. c de Roca Who wants me po""n,,e Of New Mexico to
,rt him. him Eo,er9or u 50 extremely IG ,a4@49t with a 'lter. a heartless muir
hH'I =" N'H'l was u l''AIN' NlEl was a FtNIA. OF u hlIItH ally
or We're there other reasons
Is II not reasonable to suppose that II he We're elected govorno~
lie Iaca might again show soicnudc for Niri. and again set the muir
lerorl loose" now with two murders to his d-cICit7
The vigil case is not the only instance OF de Baca Officially doing n
GOOD turn Ton the perretrator OF a horrible crime There is the matter
VI prudeucio Martinez
In 1905 this Prudencio MARTINEZ and a man named Felipe Garcia
Who was employed in L c de Bacas printing office in Las Vegas. one
night waylad and assaulted a girl on her way home through a dark
street from the telephone exchange whore she was employed The crime
was "a revolving one and public wrath at the dcgeuorates who perpeuatcl
10 ran high in san Miguel county. MARITIME and Garcia were sentenced
% twenty Years in the pententary.
After a short time. MARTINEZ tried to get free ON parole. The charta
bio Chile o~ro. 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 the question naturally ariser
did Mcdonald finally parole MARITIME at the solicitation OF + = De Baca
who had given the wifemurdercr Vigil a parole?
In ans event as SOC al Governor Mcdonald did parole MARITIME
Lieutenant Governor de Baca, head Of the managing board Of mo stat,
l-au" ASYLUM at Las Vegas. gave him a lob as cook at the asylum. n
So shows un the parole record
Thanks to de- Bacas patronage, the assaHant OF the little telephone
girl was put o N the states payroll TO hold down a good Job at the a,
lum He was assigned TO cook for and come in contact with those piuful
charges to whom society owes the best and most careful guardianship q
can afford TO give. but the fate which has robbed them OF their minds
ma, at least keep them from realizing where de Bacas 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 Raca free the other as
printing office?
ut looks bad for de Baca, Mcdonald, 0terO, Walton, Hall