The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-03
MEXICAN EXPECTATIONS ON THE TEXAS
BORDER.
A United States Custom. House Cficcr Sep.
posed to Have Been Murdered by Mexican
Sn1uuglera Tbievrs.

A United States Custom, House Cficcr Sep.
posed to Have Been Murdered by Mexican
Smugaiers and Thieves.
From the San Antonio Crexas) Express, Sept. D.
Corpus Christi, arrived In town on wednesday even
Ing and communicated TO us the following fntellI-
gence concerning corpse found on tue banks oil an
arroyo eight miles below Rocky, between that place
and Oakvllle.
On Monday evening the Judge and Mr.. Nickerson
reached the house OF Mr. osborne living on Peter 3
Rancho, near Rockev, where they halted Tor the
nigh1 After they had put up their horses MI.
Osborne informed them That he had disagreeable
piece Oh indulgence 10 communicate and PROCEEDED
While riding near the rancho looking up his stock,
ne suddenly came upon the corpse Of a man, very
much decomposed. AghIng from his horse he APP
preached the body and found the flesh eaten or de-
ana pair OF pants; one foot was without a boot
which lay near at hand, and the other
upper part 81 Boot and having the appearaace Of
having been been eaten OF by wolves. short dis
lance from the body was found q dark ielt hat.
nearly n ew, and pasted IN the crown OF which was
the name Of Alden Mclaughlin written thereon in
PLAIN, legible hand, and close TO the body was a
man seemed to have been ried OF their contents, as
they were hanging out. Part OF the scalp OF the
was OF a dark color. The nat containing the name
or the unfortunate man was the nearest and only
means OF identification.
How long the corpse had lain where It was found
could only ne arrived at by conjecture, 1t having
been SIX weeks since he lett Corpus Christi for this
city.
NJ Osbvrne stated TO Judge Gilpm that he had
sent word to MS neighbors Of the discovery Of the
body, and that an inquest and burial would take
place on the following morning bat the Judge hav
Ing urgent business at Austin, could not remain 10
be present.
Upon further inquiry we learned that Mr.. Nc
Laughin was employed as a mounted inspector Of
customs on me no Grande. ana was Q most inde-
fatgabe ana efficient ufllcer Not long since he de.
tecled anu had seized large number oil horses
winch had been struggled from Mexico.
More recently he traced up 10 this city another
large lot Of struggled Mexican horses, which were
cOnhscated by the government, and are the same
Course and advertised TO be sold at auction by the
United States Marshal on tie 2Sth OF September,
and 1t was IN connection with this seizure that he
visited San Antonio.
Mr.. Steneker, the Superintendent OF the Menger
Hotel, informs us that Mclaughlin LETT here Oh
horseback to return to his district or home on the
2oth OF August IT IL believed he started Alone but
Mexican.
Mr.. Mclaughlin is described as being man OF
about twenty. hre years. dark complexion and DARK
hair and beard, or medium height and having a
halt or laMeness IN one Of his legs. He was known
TO many persons here, and on the Rio Grande had
the reputation 81 beng most yigilant officer and
Judge Gilpin states that he saw the wife OF Nc
Laughlin Just before leaving Corpus Christi who In
formed him that she mad no intelligence from her
husband since he left for san Antonio, and was IN
alarm at his long delay.
Should this corpse prove to be that oil the missing
Mclaughlin, which Is altogether probable the most
reasonable inference will be that ne has been way
laid and murdered by the villains and desperadoes
whose illegal traffic he SO successfully mterfered
witn We avail; further investigation ana develop
lnents. 80 ..