Jose Dominguez and Desidoria Ochoa
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Jose Dominguez and Desidoria Ochoawere tried today for burglarizing Ed Dicken-
son’s house and stealing therefrom a suit of
clothes, rifle and double-barrelled shot gun.
The crime was committed in May last. The
criminals were captured by a Deming officer
a few days afterwards. When captured they
had a large assortment of door keys in their
possession — skeleton keys among the lot as
well as pincers, nippers, screw drivers, and a
motley collection of traps of various kinds.
They were shown to be the very worst class of
sneaking, low down, skulking house thieves.
The property was found in their possession and
the way they accounted for it was humorous.
They claimed they met another Mexican on the
railroad six miles this side of Whitewater at a
bridge. They were entire strangers to each
other. Being tired they all stopped to rest, the
sun being quite hot. The Mexican stranger
seemed to have fallen in love with a hat worn
by one of the defendants — an ungainly looking
sombrero. The stranger had the rifle, shot-gun,
clothes and a lot of other tricks and bantered
one of the defendants to play cards, offering to
put up the rifle against the hat; each one by
chance having three decks of cards. They
played monte, and the defendants won. The
stranger then put up the shot gun, the defend-
ants won again. Next was put up the suit of
clothes, the defendants won again.
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cards, offering to
put up the rifle against the hat; each one by
chance having three decks of cards. They
played monte, and the defendants won. The
stranger then put up the shot gun, the defend-
ants won again. Next was put up the suit of
clothes, the defendants won again. Finally the
stranger staked all he had left to his new
friends. The two defendants then went their
way and the stranger came on toward Silver
City, stripped of all his property. He was never
seen after he parted from the defendants. It
is thought by some that his losses so preyed
upon his mind that he committed suicide in
some gulch. Inasmuch as the defendants
couldn’t produce the man whom they won the
goods from, the jury brought in a verdict of
guilty, and the judge to clinch the verdict gave
them four years in the penitentiary. Moral :
Never stop to gamble with a stranger on the
lonely plains, even if you do win you are liable
to get the worst of it.