#ThisDayIn 1901 (Nov. 30): La Voz del Pueblo published a resolution by the Catholic Association of St. Joseph of Las Vegas, NM: “Wherefor Divine Providence in its inscrutable designs on November 17, 1901 saw fit to remove Manuelita Tapia de Pino, at the age of 52 after a long illness…”
(“Said deceased was creditor to all the virtues that she possessed and to her good name among the community. Left to feel her death, her husband, Jose de la Cruz Pino, partner of this Society, adoptive daughter Josefita Benavidez, a sister, a brother, and a large number of relatives and friends…”)
(“Be it Resolved by this gathered mass society, that we unite with our grieving fellow member and help him wholeheartedly to feel the irreparable loss that with all the money in the world cannot be repaired. J. M. Tafoya, Clemente Angel, Clemente Montano, Commission.”)
(Jose de la Cruz Pino was the policeman who responded to the assault carried out by hack driver J. E. Griffin and John Simmons over the possession of foundling Emma, later adopted by Vicente Silva’s wife Telesfora Sandoval de Silva, on Jan. 22, 1885.)