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_ * . □ '--- - ----- IIInounced Tuesday by Counlv Manager the polls was that Beatrice Silva beat Juan T. Romero. Manuel Valerio for Countv Treasurer.votehKeihetr parents.Mr. Gallup and compum. take note.a vuiumuni: memoer dv lolling the bell.1’ said Father Beachsbyterian Church, 816s,8a.m.I Convent 10 a.m.-3)i School,3 females 6visit9 murder suspectSHOWi.m.rCOURT John B ly CourF COM-ng with and en-My Ad-m.ge House n.By MERILEE DANNEMANNThree women drove into Taos on a snowy night last week, on their way to Colorado Springs. They didn’t get there on exactly the schedule they had intended Here is their story of why not:Having taken a few skids on slick roads late that afternoon, they decided to check road conditions ahead before continuing north, and were directed to the county sheriff's office in the courthouse complex.'The three women, road maps clutched prominently in their hands, approached the sheriff’s office and met Deputy Orlando Martinez, who was on his way out of the building. They asked the deputy for the best route to Colorado Springs, they related.According to the women, Martinez said. '■I’ll take you to somebody who can help you ” He led them into the office andthrough a few corridors, ami into a room Then he closed the door behind the women and apparently left the building The women, June Briggs and Phyllis Kumorowski of Colorado Springs, and Mrs. Briggs' mother Hose Beale, from England, found themselves in a room w ith an unidentified man Still clutching their ruad atlases, they asked the man in the room for directions to Colorado Springs, and he most helpfully and courteously replied As they chatted about this and that, the women began to notice items in that room that made it look like something other than an ordinary office: for example, a bed and a box of cookies.It gradually dawned on them that they were in jailWhen, after about 15 minutes. Uiev asked to leave, the courteous.ai that timeunidentified man banged on the locked door lo call the dispatcher, who let the women out The gentleman warmly invited them to come againSomewhat shaken by their experience, the women decided nut to travel on that night They stayed at a motel here speculating all night long what on earth had happenedNext morning, when thev chanced upon State Policeman Glenn Weathers having coffee, they discovered the identity of their “jailbird host: accused murderer of hi* wife, Charles VerquerAnd then they really got upset, andwhat-ifs started flyingOne was particularly concerned because she had had a knife in her purse that a less hospitable prisoner couid have usedagainst herMainly, they wondered why me depuu did what they saui he did Deputy Martinez, who was having coffee in the same place claimed he ’misunderstood and thought they wanted to visit VerquerVerquer had recently been in touch by telephone with his brother in Greele\ Colorado, and therefore probably knew about snow conditions as well us’anvoik-elseIn fact, the directions he gave \u-iv exactly the same as the ones policeman Weathers gave in the morning But, while her two companions speculated about all the terrible things that could have happened to them in that lonely jail cell on that cold and windy night, the Brtish Mrs Beale commented somewhat dejectedly. “Aw. it wasn't 'ardly an adventure at all
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Taos News
Taos, New Mexico, US
Thu, Nov 14, 1974
Page 19
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