From the New Mexican we learn the par-…

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From the New Mexican we learn the par- ticulars of the latest crime proved on an in- famous character, who has been an inmate of nearly every jail and pen of New Mexico. In May, of last year, a woman of ill repute was found dead in one of the back alleys of Juarez, under suspicious circumstances, and C. B. Wal- ters, a saloon keeper, J. R. O’Laughlin and another man named Bothwell, were arrested, charged with killing the woman. It was proven that the woman had been in Walter’s saloon the night before, and other witnesses testified to seeing two of the accused carrying a human body into the alley where the body was found. Eleven months was spent in taking testimony, and on Wednesday the trial of the men termi- nated. Walters was sentenced to be shot, O’Laughlin to ten years servitude, while Both- well was acquitted. O’Laughlin is no less the personage than the ex-convict Red, known all over New Mexico for various crimes and shady practices. He writes a long letter to the El Paso Times, declaring his innocence and charging that the local Mexican authorities brought about conviction simply because they were instructed to do so by the officials at the capital of the republic.