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atdche was tuned.“Isn't It a fact that the guards saw a drunken, armed convict, in I w an angry mood and looking for.d another convict and didn’t stop d him?” Blgbee asked.“I imagine that is what happened,” Rinaldi replied.“You didn’t ask what happened? Bigbee asked.“Hie guards are supposed to report to us. They didn't come up and tell me,” Rinaldi said.Although he said “I don’t know” when, asked if a number of convicts were drunk on the day of the fight, Rinaldi, an employee at the penitentiary for 14 years, acknowledged that since he has been at the prison there has always been liquor around. They make it out of potato peelings or raisins,” he said. He added, however, that he had never seen any marijuana at the pen.When asked why the district attorney had not been notified sooner in Parks' death, Rinaldi said he had nothing to do with notifying the DA nor the state police. “I’m not running the penitentiary. I’m just working there ” he said.The preliminary hearing is expected to carry into tomorrow. Only four of the ,17 witnesses subpenaed have appeared so far. The first witness was guard captain Antonio j Griego, who testified about how the | wounded convicts were brought to ' the prison hospital but that he 1 knew nothing of what had happened.! Bigbee elicited an admission from 1 Griego that stabbings are not uncommon in the prison. The guard testified that incidents similar to the stabbing happened so frequently that he wasn't curious as to how it had happened when the wounded men were brought to the prison hospital.Three exhibits—-the iron pipe, a home made knife and the length of chain—were entered as evidence today.
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Fri, Feb 06, 1953
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