New Mexico Territory VS. Gonzales
The following is a verbatim transcript of a sentence imposed upon a defendant convicted of a foul murder in the Federal District Court of the Territory of New Mexico, many years ago, by a United States Judge, sitting at Toas, in a adobe stable used as a temporary courtroom.
"JOSE MANUAL MIGUEL XAVIER GONZALES, in a few short weeks it will be spring. The snows of winter will flee away, the ice will vanish, and the air will become soft and balmy. In short, JOSE MANUEL MIGUEL XAVIER GONZALES, the annual miracle of the years awakening will come to pass.........But you won't be here."
" The rivulet will run it's purring course to the sea. The timid desert flowers will put forth their shoots, the glorious valleys of the imperial domain will blossom as the rose.......Still you won't be here to see."
"From every tree top some wild-wood songster will carol his mating song, butterflies will sport in the sunshine, the busy bee will hum happily as it pursues its accustomed vocation, the gentile breeze will tease the tassles of the wild grasses, and all nature ........JOSE MANUEL MIGUEL XAVIER GONZALES......will be glad but you. You won't be here to enjoy it because I command the sheriff, or some other officer of this county, to lead you out to some remote spot, swing you by the neck from a nodding bough of some oak, and let you hang until you are dead."
"And then, JOSE MANUEL MIGUEL XAVIER GONZALES, I further command that such officer, or officers, retire quickly from your dangling corpse, that the vultures may desend from the heavens upon your filthy body, until nothing shall remain but the bare, bleached, bones of a COLD-BLOODED, COPPER-COLORED, BLOOD-THIRSTY, THROAT-CUTTING, CHILE-EATING, SHEEP-HERDING, MURDERING SON OF A BITCH."
(Read by Mr. Judge Wood, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Post Office Department, Los Angeles, California, at the Spring Meeting of Regional Committee, Protective Section, A.A.E. held at Los Angeles, May 19, 1949.)
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