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MANUEL GOMEZBOUND OVER. T,Charged with Murder of RafaelCastanaldo.C!IThe Preliminary Examination BeforeisurJudge Lander Hetd at 1Oxnard.frThe preliminary examination ofManuel Gomez, charged with the murder of Kafacl Castanaido, was held before Judge Lander in Oxnard onWednesday.It will be remembered that Castainaido was found by Major Carr on thenight of the 17th of this month, in hisyard, dead, covered with blood andwith several knife wounds on his per- MlsonOomez was arrested in Los AngelesDOand brought back to Ventura by SheriffCharlebois.Attorney F. W. Ewing of Venturarepresented the county and conductedthe examination. The prisoner had nocounsel.T. M. Hill acted as Court interpreter.A. Pratt of Ventura acted as Courtreporter.The first witness was a Spaniardnamed Morales, who testified that deceased aud defendant were at his tentin Oxnard on the evening of the 17tb,singing, playing the guitar and driuk-l ing port wine. He left the tent for11 some purpose for a short time, andwheu he returned they were both goneand he never saw them again. There- liquor. He asked them not to sing so1 borhoud. The defendant lmd a large~ dagger on his person, about a foot loug.3 He took it out to get the cork out of thebottle of wine. Saw the deceased next- and identified him when he was deads at Major Carr’s place.I-itADr. U. A. Broughton testified tomaking an examination of the deceased. He found four wounds, evidently indicted by a sharp instrument.li ! about three inches long, partly seveieidefing the jugular vein, ana was sufficientto cause death. The lower lobe of theleft ear was cut off. The third woundwas on the left side of the neck, andthere was a wound iu the left shoulder.4Deceased appeared to have been deadbetween six and twelve hours.iHenry Are!lanes, deputy sheriff andconstable, of Venluru, testified that hehad had seveial conversations with the^rdntoprisoner since his incarceration in thecounty jail. The prisoner had uniformly told the same story, to the effectthat when the deceased and himselfleft Morales’ tent they went and had ar. glass of beer, and Castanaido boughtanother bottle of wine; then defendantd, started to go to his brother’s, at El Kio,and Castanaido insisted on going within him, although lie didn't want hiscoin-tz* puny; that they met a young fellowz, named Fred Palmtree aud gave him a*s, the road deceased (punreled with de-. fendaut, called him bad names andir, struck him on the wrist with the bottleof wine; this enraged him so that helost his seusea, and lie remembers nothing further. The next thing he remem-bered vas waking up witli the cold, ina barn; then he went on, and when he311sepyIS.11iseroner had told him practically the samestory.ug ,I ! The prisoner voluntarily took the ^ 'stand, was sworn and repeated theds sto,y a* ^ been told by ConstableArellanes, without material variation.idausAIi was no quarreling at his place, but sits they were both uuder the influence of P*e loud, us they would disturb the neigh-1 PrOne was on the right side of the neck, I inMindrsci:K\Vfiunu, drink, aud he also went along. On 1rcame to his senses the next morning S'j,, he found himself buried in the sand iu I ^ the river bottom, face downward; histihat and knife were gone, lie tramped . tl along the railroad to Santa Paula; a h]woman gave him a hat; lie finally got bito Pomona, and from there he went to 11HLos Angeles. The deceased was a Lid I ^m, man, aud lie was afraid of him. HeI had only acted in self-defense. I d'flie Sheriff testified to going alterthe prisoner to Los Angeles; the oris- I... 1 nu11!The prisoner was bound over to the ^Superior Court without hail. plit Thfl f.rii n *
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Oxnard Courier
Oxnard, California, US
Sat, Dec 22, 1900
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