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Show FORMER LAWMAKER HELD UNDER BOND EL PASO, Texas. Feb. 2. Klfego Baca formerly speaker of the New Mexican Mex-ican houfe of representatives, and Republican Re-publican candidate for United States senator, sen-ator, was released under $ 500 bond by the Thirty-fourth district court today on a writ of habeas corpus. Baca was indicted by the grand jury Monday on a charge of murder in connection con-nection with the killing of Celestino Otero last Sunday afternoon. Eye-witnesses to the shooting testified today that Otero fired the first siiot. which passed through Baca's coat and that Baca fired In self-defense. self-defense. No date has been eet for the trial. |