El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-05-11

within ten PAGES of Chorles ID. Miller
and at the moment the we'll known
New Mexican fell riddled with Mex
lean bullets. The wretch said he fired
in the air. Does the Journal believe
all or part of this fabrication?
Fully identified
The Journal shows q vast lack OF
legal information when it attempts to
take Mr.. Wood to task for placing the
MeXicans on the stand. What. in the
name of common sense, could he do
save only this? By the testimony oil
T. =. Hulsey, constable; p. X. Lem
mon, jr, merchant; L. A. Riggs, Gus.
toms officer; Benjamin Aguirre, line
rider, and Lurid Fillmore, army nurse,
the Mexican prisoners were fully
identified as the men that had openly
boosted Of the part they had played
in the horrible tragedy. Now, If the
editor Of the Journal will consult his
attorney, he will find that Mr.. Wood
had no control over getting the facts
into evidence. The evidence az such
is admissible under the laws of the
state of New Mexico.
Ignorance Of the Law"
-Four of the Mexican ours charged
with murder commended that they
were holding horses while their com
rades looted the town. Two fell,
they claimed. before they actually
reached the town, though they adj
mitted they we're bound for II with
loaded rifles in their hands. Whether
or not they actually killed the per-
sons named in the indictment makes
no difference under the law anyway.
The second count of the indictment
charged that they "aided and abet-
ted" in the commission of murder
and on this count they were found
guilty. Their plea of ignorance 10 so
childish that it is hardly worth while
mentioning. Since when does ignor-
ance of the law release anyone from
obedience to it?
To show that the defendants are
not the poor, gentle, misguided, and
downtrodden poems they assume to
be, the Testimony of Lurid Fillmore
the giant negro army nurse, was in
troduced. Francisco Alvarez, nj
time orderly to Francisco Villa, by
the testimony OF Fillmore, attempted
a murderous assault on the colonel
under which the negro serveG
than a year ago near Hachita. Fill
more saw Alvarez wounded at Colnm,
bus following the raid. The identifi-
cation was mutual. The prisoner
rolled from his cot in the hospital and
attempted to escape.
No Sympathy for Victims
The journal is full Of sympathy for
Mexicans, especially those that kill
Americans in cold blood. 1t has yet
to express sympathy for the Ameri.
can citizens-men, women and babies
went through the horrors Of a
sack by wanton savages that came to
burn, steal, kill, and outrage women.
Mr.. Moore, the kindly shopkeeper,
shot at his home two miles from
Columbus after the raid, and in sper-
tive fashion the yellow devils fired
his wife as she fled In her garden,
infIicting a terrible wound. MIR.
Ritchie, the genial host Of the Com
nercial hotel, among others. was shot
at the foot of the steps leading into
the hotel. As the warm blood squirt
ed forth from a dozen wounds and
the old man gasped In his last aqona
poor, downtrodden poems knelt be-
side him and-cut his throat from
ear to ear. Did Villa force them to
act Of barbarism7 The tese.
phone operator, Mrs. Parks, cIunu,i
with her baby to her breast, to her
switchboard calling Demine for as
sistance, while the Mauser bullets
tore through the thin walls Of TIE
little office. The gallant soldiers Of
he garrison rushed the bandits with
bare hands In the dark to get their
guns and ammunition to beat off the
For two hours at least the
brave pioneers Of the little border VII
age underwent the torture of sack
a foe that is as merclless as the
ed savages of Geronimo. Is there
in all this to excite sympathy
S there nothing In the bearing Of the
American citizens and soldiers TO call
admlration7 It Is recorded that
lot ever an American baby whimper-
ID. Vet the journal could see In the
tragedy only the bravery Of . Mexi-
consular officer who tried to save
ieveraI American women In the Com
nercial hotel. II took the lead In a
NUMBERING effort to buy a monument
o be set up in Mexico. The gallant
Of the Mexican was certainly
iommendable and showed that he at
east was almost human.
In Columbus they are raising a fund
0 buy a monument, too, but it will
reared in the United States OF
america to commemorate the forti-
ude Of the Americans that fought
desperately for their homes and a
light to live in the United States. il
here is sympathy to be extended,
hese keepers of the border should be
he recipients, and if there is admira
ion to bestow these hardy pioneers
hould be commended.
Trial Eminently Fair
There could never have been
nore fair trial on a court of law than
he n conducted by Judge 3. l. Med
or when the seven villa murdeFeg