Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-07-17

How Plaeky WOMAN Managed to
Escape from Mexican Assassins,
Denver News.

T. -NNNOou ASSASSuUS1
~ Ina Denver News. ...s.sf
One Of those thrilling adventures
which are seldom or never met with
outside of a yellow-backed romance.
occurred to lady in this city who has
Just arrived from the scene of the adj
venture. The heroine, in this instance
is Mrs. Kundlett, the music teacher,
and The story of her adventure is as
thrilling narrative rs it was ever a re-
porters pleasure to get the first facts of.
MIS-. kundlett has just returned from
the borders of New Mexico, and AN
mixing OF the narrow escape she had
from the bullet of a Mexican assassin
having reached the ears of a Ne,cs re.
porter, that ubiquitous individual visit
ca the lady to learn the particulars.
Mrs. Kund!ett, while showing no wish
to be lionized, readily consented to the
proposition to give the Neuy her ex-
perience in the south, and here it is rs
1t was cleaned in the course of the in
terview: Some weeks ago the lady left
Denver for AlmOsa to meet her hus-
band, Capt. c. M. Rundett, n member
of the Denver and Rio Grande engineer
ing corps. Rumors of his illness had
reached this city, and his physician had
advised his wife to induce him to return
to Denver and recuperatc preparatory
to starting out on surveying expedi-
ton beyond the Rio Grande river. Ar
irving ut Alamosa, Mrs. Rundlett learn
ed that her husband had left the day
previous, accompanied by party of
men. His wife was ut first uncertain
what to do. There was no way of
reaching him by telegraph, and the
only way was to follow after and run
the risk of overtaking him on the road /.
SO she procured a team of David Wood,
the well-known livery man. and started
out after him accompanied by Mr.. l..
w. Morris, Of Alamosa, who volunteered
to drive her to the next station. They
reached COnejOs the same evening,
where they were cared for by Lieuten-
ant Governor Head, an acquaintance of
the family, and there learned that the
engineers corps had passed through the
morning previous. Starting out again
they drove on to place known as
Dutch Henry's about thirty-two miles
out from CoHejos. Here again they
were disappointed in not finding Cap
tain Rundlett, who had evidently hur-
ried on, in order to reach the point
where his party were to commence
work. At the last stopping place they
were told that there was another sta
ton that they would evidently reach in
time to overtake the surveying party.
The following day they took the road
again, when one Of the horses fell sick,
and poor progress was made. About
dark the same evening they reached
Swope's camp where n number Of men
were employed boring for u well to
water the horses that would eventually
be travelling that way over the Barlow
4 Sanderson stage line. The men could
direct them to no place where they
could get food or water for the horses
or shelter for themselves. The horses
had had no water since morning, and
the men in camp had little or nothing
save what they had hauled eight miles
for their own use. TWAS impossible to
proceed any further without water for
the animals, and after obtaining the
nearest course to where the needed re-
freshment could be Obtained, the team
was turned back and Mrs. Rundlett and
her escort proceeded through deep
ravine, along craggy peaks, and up
rough and untraveled hills in search Of
the water. After driving about four
miles they reached the ton of high
hill, covered with dense timber. On
the other side of the hill was where the
water was supposed to be. Morris
alighted from the buggy and went in
search Of the stream, leaving Mrs.
Rundlett in care of the horses. 1t was
now long after shutdown. The moon
was just coming up from behind the
clouds, and the woods were as silent as
a gray e-yard. A long time-it seemed
hours to Mrs. Rundlett-passed before
Morris returned with the intelligence
that he had found the stream, which
was fully two miles dowr the hill and
adjoining q Mexican plaza. During
Morris absence Mrs. Rundlett had
heard sound like that of men talking
in the timber, and on the return Of her
escort asked him if he had met any
one. He replied that he had not, and
proceeded to unhtch the team to take
them down to the water. He suggested
that Mrs. Rundlett remain where she
was until he came back. TO which
she demurred, and said that she would
walk along too, as she had some for
boding of coming danger.
They walked down to the stream and
secured the water for the nearly fam
shed beasts, after which they returned
to the hill and proceeded to tie the
horses preparatory to feeding them.
The two animals were hitched to the
hind wheels. Mrs. Rundlett had just
sat down in front of the buggy to pre-
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