The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-20
India, BYsol arV.


The Albuquerque IN. NJ RevieD has
the following particulars of the killing
of Judge McComas and family in South
ern New Mexico recently:
Mr.. Wells, one of the County Com
issoners of Grant, was among the first
on the ground. and he states that Nc
Comas was lying on his face, with his
right hand extended and the left drawn
back and resting partially on his back.
He had received one shot through the
right wrist SCATTERING the bone COM
pletely; another through the fleshy part
of the same arm below and near the ell
bow; another through both thighs, en-
tering from the right side and passing
out at the left; another entering at the
point of the left shoulder and passing
clear through the body and out at the
point of the right shoulder-blade and
passing out near the pit of the stomach;
another cutting the flesh slightly below
his right breast, and still another, cut
ting a cash in his left side. He had bled
profusely, and a stream of blood marked
the way back, from where the body lay,
to point in the road where he had
either jumped out of the blackboard or
had fallen out upon receiving the
first fire from the Indians. The blood
in the blackboard showed that he had
been shot before. he got out, and the
quantity of blood in the road indicated
that just before. or Immediately after,
getting out, he received dangerous, if
not mortal wound. His body was found
on the roadside, stripped of all clothing
except his shirt. The horses had run
but short distance before one of the m
was shot and killed, and its fall had
partially turned the blackboard around
to the left before it stopped. Here was
presented the saddcst sight Of all. About
ten feet to the left of the blackboard lay
the dead body of Mrs. McComas, her
face downward and likewise stripped Of
clothing, with her skull crushed little
above the right ear, evidently done with
pistol or gun barrel. There were
marks of two other blows having been
given on the back of the head, probably
with pistol. No other marks of vio-
lence whatever could be,discovered about
the person; her face rested somewhat on
the left side. and the blood had flowed
in pool about her face and mingled
with her disheveled hair. Her shoes and
stockings were lying off away in one di-
rection, the shoes cut from her feet; her
| corsets lay in. another direction from her
body; these were the only articles of APP
parel to be found. Her footsteps before
| her shoes were cut off could be seen in
places on both sides of the blackboard,
and some were deeply impressed in the
soft earth and ground around, of the
heel or toe, as though in desperate
struggle to escape her captors, or, more
likely, to save her bov, for the Judge al
ready lay dead. and she then, poor, weak
woman, utterly defenseless herself, was
her child's only protector. No trace of the
boy could be discovered No imprint
| of his little feet could be found anywhere
upon the ground. This, however, is
easily explained. When the blackboard
was stopped by the fall of the horse
Mrs. McComas undoubtedly seized the
little fellow and held him to her bosom
with the desperation of despair, and
when finally torn from her arms he was
placed and held upon pony or at once
carried away.