El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-12-20
MURDRERS
CHEAT THE.
GALLONS
ATGALLUP
Doomed Men Suicide in
Jail; Strangled and
5g 8i Cut Threats.
MEXICANS WANTED
A FIRING SQUAD
Note Asking for
Respectable Burial;
Found at Dawn.

Found at Dawn.
10y Leased Wire tosNew Mexican.)
Gallup, N. NJ, Dec. 18.-Jost
Maria Quevas and Silverio Sill.
va, convicted of first degree
murder under sentence to be
hanged December 81, carried
lout the judges sentence them
selves in their cells in the coun-
Ity Jail last night.
This morning when the
priest visited the two prison
ers he found them both dead.
Quevas' hands and feet were
tiled with part of his clothing
a large cash was cut in his
throat with a sharpened
"spoon" dagger, and a rope
about his neck was suspended
from the wall Of the cell. Silva
tied his feet with a blanket to
one side of the cell and tied the
rope about his neck to the other
side, with the "spoon'' dagger
gripped in his hand. It APP
pears Silva tied and cut Quevas
and then ended his own life.
Both died of strangulation.
GALLUP, N. NJ, Dec. f8.-Maria
cuevas and silveriofsiIva, sentenced
to be hanged Friday, December 81,
for murder, committed suicide in the
county Jail early today by hanging
themselves. When the jail euaro
looked in to the death cell early to-
day the condemned men were In their
beds, apparently sleeping. However,
when the jaiIer went inside he found
them dead. Each had attached a rope
about the iron braces at the head Of
his bed and strangled himself.
Letters signed by both prisoners
said they did not intend to be hung
by the state, would rather have faced
a firing squad, and asked for respec-
table burial. In another note, Cuevas
his guitar to a prisoner In
the jail. The men were Mexicans.
cuevas was convicted of killing an
other Mexican at q dance last May.
Silva was to pay the death penalty
for killing a roomer in his home fol-
a dispute over S. rent.
Both had their feet tied at one end
of the same cell with the rope around
their necks and tied at the other end.
Their bodies almost touched Their
beds. No noise was heard In the jail
even by Capt. Gore, the night watch
man, and 1t Is not yet known who
smugelcd the rope into the jail.
GRIMES WE'RE RESULT OF
TRIVIAL QUARREL; KNIFE USED
Gallup, N. M, Dec. 1S.-The crimes
,yb;ab Maui, Crouao and Ci1yar;o |
Silva, convicted of murder and SEN
fenced to be hanged on December
81, resulted from relatively trivial
luarrels. In both cases the weapon
used was a knife.
Jose Maria Cuevas started to al
dance on the night Of May 20, 1917,
and, seeing Pedro Hernandez and o
from the Leyba district
the hall, remarked--a witness
testified at his trial-that everybody
from TINT district was-the court in
.erprete, translated the expression as
stuck up" Hernandez and his
resented 1t In words.
Juevas left, but, returned later, ac-
to the witness.
Hernandez and his companion had
mounted their horses and were ready
leave. Cuevas struck Hernandez,
knocking him to the ground, and
when Hernandez ran, pursued him,
witness said. Hernandez fell and,
hey said, Cuevas leaped on him,
There we're two knife wounds in the
body of Hernandez-one in the alb
lomen and the other in the back. 1t
vas not determined at the triai
whether they were caused by one or
.wo thrusts.
Hernandez uncle called to Cuevas
stop and Cuevas started toward
linn, according to witnesses. The
mole ran, but, it was said, realizing
hat he could not escape by running,
rev his revolver and fired over his
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