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Show MERCHANT HELD IN GIRL SLAYING SOCORRO. N. M., Nov. 23 JPi W. B. Caaaidy, 43-year-old Socorro businesa man, waa charged with firet -degree murder today and spirited spir-ited out of town lesa than 12 hours fter the diacovery of the borrrby . mutilated body of Roae Garcia, 1. - n employe, in a aand grave north ef hr. . . - A crowd estimated by sheriffs " ritputies at 290 maaeed grimly in front of the courthouse this morn-Thg"as morn-Thg"as woriFof the esse leaked out. Body Mutilated The Oarrla girl, who had been a J servant in the Caaaidy home for five months, was found in a shallow - grave near the Rto Salado. 17 miles Z north of here. She had been shot and horribly mutilated with a pen-1 pen-1 knife. Sheriff Frank Knoblock an- J Cas."idy. after an all-night grill-' grill-' ing. was taken unannounced to the 1 county aeat of Los Lunas, In Va- Irnria county, ahortly after a eoro-3 eoro-3 ner' Jury in Socorro county re-. re-. turned a verdict of death at the hands of an unknown person. . A warrant charging firat degree " murder waa signed later, however, by Sergeant Joe T. Roach of the New Mexico atata police, and Caaai- dv waa taken to thenetghborlng county. A preliminary hearing on "the charge waa arranged immedi- ately In Los Lunss. Outside County 2 The removal from Socorro to Valencia county, sheriffs' deputies aaid. waa made because the body ' of toe girl had been buried outwde Socorro county. J Deputy Sheriff Ronie Landavaro. In the sheriffs office of thia little J one-time cattle town, aaid the crowd m gathered before the courthouse and Jail showed no aurface intention of violence. Many of them of Spanish-Amerl- ran blood, members of the crowd waited quietly and grimly to bear developments. The girl's father. Guadalupe Garcia, a well-known rancher here, waa known and liked by residents of the section. 5 In Sandhllle According to the district attor-. attor-. ney, the grim discovery in the sand- hills by the Rio Salado cam from a information obtained from Caaaidy. The body waa dug out by the light I of bonfirea and automobile head- lights by sheriff's poaas shortly J after 1 a. m. |