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Book Review



Justice Betrayed: A Double Killing in Old Santa Fe. By Ralph Melnick. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xv + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95.)

      Before the review comes the disclaimer. One of the principal figures in this book, New Mexico Governor Arthur Seligman, and I share the same last, relatively uncommon, name and both of us are from New Mexico. However, we are not related. That disclosure out of the way, the review can proceed. 1
      This is a fairly interesting account of a famous twentieth-century New Mexico murder, that of Angelina Jaramillo at her home in Santa Fe in November 1931, and of the subsequent arrest, trial, conviction, and execution of Thomas Johnson, an itinerant African American ex-convict. As one might expect, the author's contention is that Johnson's execution is the second killing alluded to in the title. . . .

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