Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-17
ALL
IN ROMERO CASE

All the evidence connected with tho
Antonio Romero murder trial was in
at five o'clock last evening, and Judge
Park of division b of the district court,
ordered recess until 10 o'clock this
morning.
Features OF the trial were several and
some of them very much out OF the or
dinary.
First of all. the revolver that killed
Eulalio Ankon was not produced in
court for tho very good reason that
it could not he found: this is believed
to be the first instance of the kind
in the criminal history of Pueblo
county.
The man was beaten with club,
but not sufficiently to cause death; the
club was there to be seen by the jury.
but neither the revolver the shots from
which did kill him, or any of the car
tridges found at the house OF the kill
ing were on exhibition. The defendant
swore he handed the gun to one of the
officers, but all of the officers and other
first persons on the scene, said they
had never seen the gun except soon
after the shooting when Romero had
both the club and the gun in his hands.
Another feature was the statement
of the defendant on tho stand to the
effect that when he had several times
told his wife of gossip he had heard.
and asked her to be careful, she had
said to him that IL he ever found her
untrue to him he could kill her. Ho
said that after he tdefendanD had shot
Angon, he reminded his wife of what
she had told him, but that he said to
her he would not kill her, as he could
not stand the disgrace of killing a
woman. Romero also stated that An
gon had once tried to force undue at
tentions on the wife of his brother.
/ In detail, thru the interpreter Mrs.
Pearl Gamez, Romero told of prepar-
ing the club to beat up Angon If cir
cumstances ever Justified: no said he
never intended to kill him. He pre-
pared the club. no said, in the presence
of both his wife and Angon who was
u boarder at his home He went on to
relate how while his wife was taking
bath in tho kitchen he left the house,
but soon came back and entered by n
window, the screen of which he had
left loose for the purpose; then how
he hid under his bed and listened to
AuSon come in and to the conversation
between his wife and the now deceased,
and how no camo ont from under the
bed and began using tho club on An
Eon. Then he made n statement OF
how Angon finally secured the 30 spc-
cial Colts revolver from under a pill
low: how they fought over its pos
session, and how no finally got hold
of the weapon and began firing into
Angon's body.
There were half dozen witnesses for
tho state and several for the defense;
however at tho close of the states
case, attorney fo- the defendant Of
fcrcd a demurrer. verbally stated, to the
court, in which he avcrcd that there
had been no evidence to justify tho
charge of murder. and asked tho court
to supplant the charge with one OF
manslaughtcr
Judge Park ovcrruled the demurrer
stating that the defensc had better
present its evidence.
y The last move was by tho district
attorney, who asked to introduce the
testimony OF Romero at the Coroners
inquest: this was admitted without
objection, provided the whole inquest
transcript be admitted; this introduc-
ton request was with the avowcd OBJ
icct OF impeaching the trial testimony
OF the defendant.
The jury was placed in tho charge
of the bailiff at the noon recess and
again last night when n recess was
taken until 10 this morning