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suit’s SUB WITNESS IN COURTHOUSE ROBBERY ARRESTED IN EL PASOJudge Helmick Will Order Five to Seven Year Suspended Sentence Enforced; Result of Supreme Court’s Reversal of Cases of Car-rie Adair Armijo and Luis Martinez, Whom Youth Incriminated in His ConfessionRoy Gentry, key witness in the courthouse robbery case, must go to the penitentiary to serve the 5-to-7-year suspended sentence which he received after pleading guilty to participation in the robbery, it was disclosed Friday night when Sheriff Felipe Zamora brought the youth back from El Paso on a commitment order signed by District Judge Milton J. Helmick.-— 1 • Judge Helmick, who sentencedI Gentry in May. 1930, indicated I when reached Friday night that enforcement of the sentence waa a result of the decision handed down by the state supreme court a week ago in reversing the conviction of -| Carrie Adair Armijo and LulaWhen Record Is Studied by,Mart,n**- e©-d«f«ndanL of aen-EVIDENCE TAKEN IN NEW PROBE REMAINS SECRETProsecutor and Judge, ''- lt;n ch“r,‘ c°n*plr‘cy “” 1 commit a robbery.The supreme court condemnedDecision as to New Grand Jury Will Be Made ! for giving evidence which——— appeared to “shield the guilty atWhether any new evidence was the expense of the innocent, and uncovered about the court house amended the lt;of Mrs. Armijo robbery of December. 1929. could j and Martlnex for re-trial In die-‘ trlct court.not be learned late Friday afternoon, aa the quixxing of witnessesAs a result of the decision. Judge 11•‘litiick dismissed the Indictment*in the latent investigation of the against Martinet and Mr*. Armijo sensational ca«« came to a close at on the ground that no other course tht* district attorney's office j waa left to him. The same reasonOfficial- said that because the jt believed to have moved the Investigation was similar to on# j judge to put Gentry's suspendedconducted by a grand jury, they j sentence Into force,were unabv to make any an t lt;„.n«ry Working In FI f*»«onounlt;*ment of statements given The committment waa ls*uedthem by more than a score of wit nesses they have heard since Wed-several days ago, but kept secret until officers could locate Gentry.l e tay m o nlng, when the quea- - sheriff Zamora said he learnedj turning began. 1 that the youth had gone to El PasoRecords of testimony given will j aboat R w„k and obtainedJ l e prepared by a court reporter vvork In a tourist camp. The sher-and copl.-s it id over by the dis- ,ff j,,ft for E1 |Uu by automobllaj triet attorney, the attorney gen- Thursday night with Deputy l,eon eraTs office, and Judge Milton J. lt;arrings, and they returned with j llelmick of the d.strict court. Of- J their prisoner early Friday eve-fictals will study the testimony and j njng.confer m • ling St t ntil this Is an outgrowth of the theftI dune, It will not be known whether! fr,,m the courthouse In December1929. of a strongbox containingSTATE TEACHERSMlaaed oa rag* «•**• j {im^ , f |f|# -ut# v,h|e,#I bureau, Gentry, Mrs. Armijo andI Martinet were charged with conspiracy to rob. and H Charles Roeh! was charged with perjury ■ nr A 01/ r n ®nd being an accessory after theL dl ftbKLU ...L. wL Gentry was siso charged withrn a«rrT Ilf nr Hi pleaded guilty and! Mi I- I Hp nr ,urnH dtfcta'a evidence As a re.j| L lir suit, when Mrs. Armito and Mar.I U 111 w tinei were found guilty by a JuryChamber of Commerce Will *,ven 5 «•*Extend Invitation to Con-rtry was given a suspended sentence for the samevention in Santa Fe; “n,t * T' “itjv* on trim I ijlt;’tny ctisrgiv H#Kremer Goes to Toledo • ti latter santi nca in thaj county Jail.»U,i« for the first quarterly! The appeal taken hv Mrs, Armija sting of Chamber of Com snd Martinet Gnalty resulted in the 10, recent quashing of indictment* t d I against them. Roeh I was acquit, jn j ted after a brief trial at I .nr dsburg, in where hts case had been taken on ire j a change of venue, n-1 Returning of Gentry to Albu* a! querque came Just as a new inves-i tigation of the courthouse robbery Is i by the district attorney's office and if. ‘ the attorney general’s office waa i. | brought to a close late Friday. Tha ■y. i action In Gentry's ease, however, he j was declared to have no connection r» with the new investigation.were matatits r1 ICOwn, VUnimetted »
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Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Sat, Oct 10, 1931
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