Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-13 | Page 1 | Editor Magee to Know Fate Possibly Today

EDITOR LIEE TO KfJOVV FATE POSSIBLYTODAY Trial of Albuquerque x Publisher Reaches Unexpected Unex-pected Conclusion When Witnesses Fail Defense DEFENDANT TAKES SLAP AT LEAHY i New Mexico Man 5ays Ha Is Entitled to 'Trial in Court of Justice, Not Court of ' Injustice Magea waa aentenced ta ninety day, in tha county Jail en each ef tha four eeunte on whieh ha waa eenvieted, tha eenteneee ta run een-eeauttvely, een-eeauttvely, a total aentenee ef MO He waa fined II and aaata an each aeunt. a total of S4 Tha Maaee Pubilahlng aempany. wniah iaauea tha Albuauer.ua Tribune, Trib-une, waa fined $1000 eaeh an throe eeunta and I0S0 an ana aeunt, LAS VEGAS, N. M. July 11 Cart C. Maaee. eeVter ef the Albu-auergue Albu-auergue Tribuna, waa Halo guilty ef oentamptbf oowrt by Diatriet Juaga D. J. Leahy here today. Tha eed-aiaa eed-aiaa waa rendered efter the eieee ef Maaee 'a trial far gubliahing article, eeregatery ta Judge Leahy and ather effialala. La 8 VFX3AS, N. M, July II fBy A. P.) Unleaa the unexpected ae-eura ae-eura and there la a delay for cauoe unforaeea. tha fata of Carl c. Magea, editor of the Albuquerque Trleuna. will ba determined today. Magea la rbarged with contempt of court an four cooyita and haa been on trial on ana of them ainca laat Teeeday tal Judge D. J. Leahy, court here. Juet before time for adjournment of tha court laat night both tha etata end the defenee .announce! they Had eonoladed their aaaea and that there would be tio argamente. It waa agreed br-aounael that the four eounto vrould bo combined and that tha onart would decide unon all tha evidence "off ered Inatead or holding three additional tiiala aa flrat propoeed. - -ROMERO NOT PRESENT. Cancluekm of tha trial - came euddenly when tha defenaa announced an-nounced that three wltneeaea It had hoped to place on tha atand and for whom aubpoenae have been laaued would not be In court. Two of them, Reoundlno Romero. Cnlted Btatea marahaL and A. O. Whlttler, etala auditor, were aald to be In Kl Pa ao, Texaa. and B. T. Baca. aunarintendent of Inatructlon, waa eomewhere In the atata but not within reach. Romero, according to afeea charree. eontrnla what the editor terma the "copper-riveted political machine In thla county." In croaa-examlnatlon croaa-examlnatlon yeaterday Magea re-Iterated re-Iterated hia etatemente that he believed be-lieved Judge Leahy, before whom he waa tried recently and convicted convict-ed of criminal libel, ahould be In-veallgated In-veallgated and that ha ahould be Impeached. "If I am wrong." raid Magee. "then the court muet ba right, and doubtleaa I am guilty of contempt. But the Judgea of tba dletrlct courta ahould ba given -to under-atand under-atand that they muat break with political ajiachlnea. I know that I waa a victim of a political machine when f waa convicted of libel, and that efforta are being made to railroad rail-road me. Tha eentenre Imnoaed upon me ahowed venom and waa too aevere. I think I ahould be tried In a court of Juetlco but not a court of tnjuetlce. I knew when I wrote thoea editorial, that t waa putting my head In a lion'a mouth. I have contempt for tha metbode or thla court.". DOUBTFUL ON RARDO Aaked whether he did not think he would be pardoned by Governor Hlnkle of New Mexico, ahould ha ba found guilty of the contempt chargea. Magea aaeerted that ba had na Information that ha would be. Ia a atatement to the preaa. Magea Ma-gea aald: "Regardleea of tha Judgment of the court. I ahalt continue con-tinue to run my newepaper and ahall continue to expoee tha roften-neea roften-neea of Ran Miguel county politic Tha court In which I waa tried la dominated, aa I have aald. by Ro-cundlno Ro-cundlno Romero'a political machine and the whole trial baa been a traveety on Juatlca." The penaltlea for contempt are a fine or not more than ISO and a Jail eentenre of alx montha for each offenae. Four eounte ha ve been filed agalnat Magee. all ef which will be paaaad upon by the court