The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-10-13
rent to Rosita. He was one of the

smoothest correspondents who ever
held pen; and wrote to the New
England newspapers, to New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Cincinnati, Rev Orleans, Atlanta and
St. Louis papers under as many ron
ae.p.Ams; always telling of the rush
OF prosperity at Rosita, of the stipend
Gus fortunes daily realized, Of the vast
schemes under way-at the head of
which those letters always placed E.
A. Egglestone; The result was that
every mail brought him money for in
vestment, and he rarely let victim
go without two or three additional
contributions. He, meantime, locat-
ed claims everywhere, careless as to
the ground they covcred-regardless
alike of veins or their absence and of
former locations of the same ground.
He simply pulled up and carried off
or burned or defaced such stakes as
occupied ground he wanted. He
gambled constantly and was seldom
sober. In a drunken spree he shot a
man by the name of Conant, we'll
known banker of Jersey City whom
he had intlced to Rosita. There was
very little doubt as to his guilt, yet
there was doubt. The man murder
cd was but recently from the east, lur-
ed to Roslta; and there defrauded Of
all his money by Egglestone. Eggles-
tone was arrested and sent to jail IN
Pueblo in May, 1879. In September
of that year, he SO fal succeeded in
convincing couple of men in this
city of his entire innocence and of his
anxiety for trial and certainty Of ac-
quittal that they went on his bond
and secured his release from Jail. But
it was decided case of misplaced
confidence. He fingered near Silver
Park till the week prior to that fixed
for lis trial, when he left the country,
! fs.essscs =; : 3!ssa~iag his future address.
Judgment was entered against his
bondsnnen for the full amount of the
bond, $4,000, and they at once set
about search for him, but without
success until this summer, when he
was identified in the person of Hugh
Marshall, down in New Mexico: \
requisltion was procured and one of
his bondsmen went down and arrested
him. Egglestone denied his identity
whenever third person was present,
but admitted it when only his captor
and himself could hear him. He en-
p!oyed an attorney to sue out a writ of
hadeas corpus in every county he should
be taken into, and instructed him to
delay hearings in every case as long as
possible. The result was that delay
of two days was ordered by the first
court taking hold of the case, that the
prisoner might have time to send for
witnesses who could swear to his iden-
tity as Hugh Marshall during the time
that Egglestone was in the Pueblo
Jail. When the morning of the day
fixed for the hearing came Egglestone
was gone, having escaped in shackles,
which were subsequently, found near
the place where he had been locked
up. After that he was heard of no
more until the following letter was re-
ceived in this city. 1t is dated at
New Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sep
tember 1st, and was shown to Times
reporter on last Saturday:
l wonder if you will be as much
surprised as I was to hear that that
rascal Egglestone is dead? Well. he is,
beyond a chance for doubt He was
killed by the Indians while with a
party he had joined for the purpose
of driving the Indians into old Mexi-
co. saw Mrs. Egglestone here and
knew her: She Is called Mrs Mar
shall; you know he went under the
name of Hugh Marshall here. knew
her, Of course. on sight, and when |
heard them say that her husband had
been killed by the Indians at once
made inquiries and found out it wasso.
l saw letter from James White, at
Fort Wingate, in which he told who
all had been killed of their party, and
Hugh Marshall was one OF them. 1t
seems that Egglestone had gone down
there after his last escape, and joined
the party to fight the Indians. after
wards saw a man named Chas. Pres:
colt who was one Of the party and was
wounded. He lives at Bakers ranch.
He told me that Hugh Marshall was
killed, that he saw him shot, but he
never knew that Marshall was not his