Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-04
CHAVES
DIDN' 7 KNOW Of
GURULE KILLING
Youth Implicated in CorraIes
Crime Tells Story to Sher-
if and District Attorney.
Ran From Bullets, Claims.

Elfego Chaves, the "other man
in the Gurule tragedy which oc-
CURED at Corrales Tuesday night,
was located yesterday working on
his fathers ranch about eight miles
north OF Albuquerque, and was
was amazed when he heard that
the shooting affray from which he
had fled had resulted fatally,
Chaves was working in the field
when Sheriff Tony Ortiz went out
for him and told him that he was
wanted at the office of the district
attorney to tell his version OF the
Corrales tragedy. Chaves gasped
in surprise when the sheriff told
him that Maria Gurule was dead.
He went readily and willingly with
Ortiz and his father to the office Of
T. ]. Mabry, assistant district at
torney and there told his story.
Murder Deliberate, Is Belief.
He had gone up to see MRS.
Gurule that evening, he said, 70
get her to help him answer LETT
fer he had received from the war
department Chaves said he knew
Mrs. Gurule when she was in AL
buouerque and that he was fire.
ouently with her and the boy.
"Dan," when they were about town,
but did not know the husband mad
made any objection.
From the story Chayes tells,
I am more confirmed than ever IN
the belief that Gurule shot his
wife with deliberate attempt to XII,
and this after the escape of Cha-
yes" said the assistant district at
torney last night. "Chaves SAID
that when he discovered two men
outside the house, and Mrs. Guruie
told him one of them had gun,
and instructed Chaves to run, that
he bolted out of the open door,
leaving Mrs. Gurule standing in the
door; that as he ran from the
door, Gurule, who was then be-
hind the house, took a first shot at
him, and as he went over the renee
nearby he heard two or more shots
fired, supposedly at him; that
few seconds later, there was an
other shot, the last he heard"
Relations Innocent.
Chaves' story supports the theory
advanced by the district attorneys
office that the shooting Of the wife
was deliberate" Mr.. Mabry said,
land that she was killed after the
Intellectual shots had been fired at
the fleeing man. 1t is believed
that Chaves did not in fact suspect
that he had left behind him a real
tragedy"
Chaves told the sheriff and Mr..
Mabry that the first he knew or
suspected that Gurule had turned
upon his wife and killed her was
when Tony Ortiz came to the field
where he was at work yesterday
afternoon and told him of it. He
said he walked home that night,
arriving about 2 a. m.
Chaves was not held as there was
no evidence to connect him in any
way with the homicide. He denied
that there was ever any improper
relations between the deceased and
himself, and called attention to the
open door of the house as a PROOF
of his good intentions there at the
time.
Seek Other witness.
A search is being made for GU
rules nephew. a man named Con
zales, who was with the defendant
at the time of the shooting, accord
ing to little Dan Gurule, and who
accompanied him and his father in
the automobile TO Corrales Tues
Gay night.
Dan has been given into the Gus
tody of Dennis Chavez. attorney for
Gurule and is in the care of the
sisters at st. Joseph sanitarium.
He is grieved at his mothers death.
hut does not want his father to be
put in jail. Gurule is in Jail at
Eernalillo, in default Of the $4,000
b&nd, on the charge Of murder
Mrs. Gurule's body is in Albu-
querqIe at the Fred Crollott under
taking establishment and burial
l.