El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-26
DELIBERATE MURDER DOES
NOT Leave BLAED TRAIL
OF CRIME, RENEHAN SAYS
For Six and Half Hours Counsel For Defense
Brings to Bear Every Resource Of Argument
and Oratory to Save Client From Hangman' s
Moose; Why Didn't Blancett Hide Proofs Of
% Crimea He Asks b@p

tell you that in his experience he hal
Iidentially the same kind of a woun'
Ito treat-that of a man shot in tn
neck because his companion ha'
mistaken him for a turkey? You al
know, probably, in your experience
of some friend shot in the woods. Yo'
know how this kind Of an accident al
fects a man but that does not say hov
it affects a boy. You also know tina
it is different when one is known II
a community and when one is not. !
is different for a stranger withou
friends to fly to. unable to rush hom'
and say: my God Jack, this happen
ed in the woods, Jack would say d.
this and 50. But this boy had no on,
to advise him. He saw the wound il
the neck. He said there is but one
thing to do and that is to fly. The
old man Archuleta told you he saw
a young man speeding down the roat
on the afternoon of October 20 and he
also told you that this man seemed
flying in fright"
A Mysterious Case
Discussing the remarkable features
of the trial now drawing to a close
Mr.. Renehan said: "Mr. Davies told
you that this case has excited a greal
deal of interest. Undoubtedly it Is
enc of the most remarkable cases in
the history of Jurisprudence. lts
equal cannot be found, nor is there
%imbecility to equal the folly of this
youth if he is the hardened criminal
painted to you. How strange that he
had no lessons to conceal his tracks;
how marvellous that he had not been
instructed to put away that corpse
that lay on the hillside; how remark
able he had no knowledge of the
danger of talking to Cordova, of tell.
ing an editor, George Beringer, that
his name, his real name, should be
put in a newspaper and to ask an edl'
tor to send the paper to Needles,
Calf. Can anything be more absurd
than to believe that a hardened erimf-
nal would do such foolish things?
"Net Of Evidence
THE prosecuting attorney has call
ed attention to the net of evidence
alleged to have been woven by the
state. Was there any evidence left
on the Troy hotel register difficult to
obtain? Who told Mr.. Miles, the Den.
yer salesman, where these two men
were going on the morning of October
%? Was there any concealment there
by Blancett? Did he try to deceive
the girls he met in the Biehl garage
in Las Vegas when he told them that
The and Armour were motoring to the
coast and we're headed for Santa Fe?
And yet counsel said this was a pre-
meditated murder for money! Three
or four times he jingled silver in your
presence for ounces of blood! Men
who go out to commit murder for
money strive to cover their tracks.
Was there any concealment when
these two men stopped at Rowe for
lunch? Or on their visit to the Val
ley Ranch, If they did go there, or
when they came by the Gross Kelly
store at Pecos? If this murder was
planned, when and where was it
planned? Why was it committed SO
close to the home of Antonio San
doval y Griego and only $50 steps
from the much travelled Las Vegas
Santa Fe road? Why was it commit
ted there where the sounds of guns
would reverberate through the noun
tains? How this accident happened
must be determined from the evf-
dence introduced into this trial and
not from d fantastic word picture OF
from inflated verbal balloons"
Why Rlancett Was Silent
Mr.. Renehan remarked that Mr..
Davies had stated to the jury that the
defendant had never told a human be-
ing his story until a. week ago but he
said the defendant had stated to the
jury he had told his counsel the
morning the trial began. but when
has it come to pass that defendants
must prove their ~innocence?" asked
the attorney. when was a law pass
ed they must open their mouths? To
whom should he have told the story?
He started off on a false trail, as he
stated to you, and other false steps
followed and followed faster, As we
know, as children, that one lie be-
gets another. But he did tell his
story weeks and months ago; he told
it in Friday Harbor to- an officer OF
the law when he said:. 4 am not
guilty"
In an effort to picture what Ihe said
he believed was the mental latitude
of Blancett after firing the fatal shot,
Mr.. Renehan transported his hearers
to a spot in the Glorieta woods where
Blancett "was surrounded by black
silence, no friend at hand, but the
CHASTITY specter of a corpse lying on
the ground behind q gulch.' 8s
Returning to the net woven" by
the state, the defendants counsel in
sisted that this net was woven by the
defendant. "He blazed the trail" he
continued, "and he blased It bright at
the telegraph office where he wrote
those messages soon after his arrival
here; and he blazeds it all the way
to Needles, Calf. And yet they have
the courage to come before you and
pronounce this boy a hardened Grim
inali"
MI. Renehan then endeavored to-
minimize the extraordinary interest