Post-Scriptum

Ian Smalley, who finally passed away in 1998, was eulogized by Judge Conway, one of his drinking buddies from younger days in Palomas. It was Conway, we should remember, who had finagled the "double jeopardy" Roswell trial of Aguirre, resulting in imprisonment of several defendants already proclaimed innocent by the Albuquerque jury. During his emotionally stirring eulogy of Smalley, printed in the local press, Conway recalled the cigar-smoking State Senatorial tycoon of Santa Fe who lit up legislative bills he disapproved of and watched bemusedly as they went up in flames, to the astonishment of their drafters.

What ALSO surfaced post-humously was the outrageous revelation that, through the good offices of State Senator Smalley, the People of New Mexico, whose honestly generated tax dollars were channeled via the City of the Holy Faith, actually funded paving of the highway from Casas Grandes, Chihuahua (Mexico) to Columbus, New Mexico (USA) for the express purpose of transporting marijuana, farmed by the exiled Latter Day contingent, into the Land of Enchantment for distribution to urban markets elsewhere in the United States!