St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-20
A NEW MExIcAN DEspERADo.
The Han Who Has Been Terror to the
Border for Years.

! From the Santa Fe Review
! Nicolas Aragon, the latest criminal celeb
| rity, is a little, wheezen-faced Mexican, 2S
years old, With keen, ''snakey" black eye.
| He is native Of Limitar, ocorro county.
! His hard face indicates abundant brute
/ force. AZ O'Clock yesterday afternoon DR..
J. II. Sloan ripped up his pant-leg as he Law
on a pallet at the Jail, and dressed the wound
in the calf Of his left leg, this attention
| being the first the poor wretch had received
since he was shot at I O'Clock on Monday
! last. In Illustration Of his real nerve 1t is
/ ouly necessary to state that he Law in his
adobe house near Chsperito, Winchester in
hand, and fought Sheriff Poe and his four
deputies for fifty-fve hours after the bullet
had caused this painful flesh wound in bis
leg "Why did you oppose the officers Of
the law p asked the Review man through an
interpreter. People told me they would
hang ne If / submitted TO arrest" he re-
piled, ''aud, Of course, fought for nv life. I"
A great deal Of a sensational character
has been written about this man, much Of
which seems to be the creation Of the vivid
Imagination Of Las Vegas reporters. Aragon
denies that he ever operated with "Billy the
KIDS gang, and it is well known that be
had no hand in the killing Of Col. Potter.
near Golden. Aragou has a ranch on the
Rio Gallinas, opposite Whitmore's, aud
twenty-five miles south OF Las Vegas There
he has resiled for long term OF years, and
has occasiOned no little annoyance bv killing
cattle sni stealing horses belonging to the
Pecos valley settlers. Last May he confessed
20 stealing 4 horse in Lincoln county and
vas sentenced to two years in the peuiteu-
tiary. Escaping from jsil he evaded the Of
icers until Oct. %, when Sheriff Poe. of
Lincoln. learned that be had been seen at
bis home near ChaperitO, aud sent Deputy
Jasper Corn 20 recaptGre him Aragon saw
Corn approaching, and, taking up a
position behind q fence, fred upon
him: the first shot killed his burse.
aud the next caused the death Of the
officer Again, last week Sheriff Poe learned
that AraCon vas at his old tricks Of stealing
his neigh5crs' stock and with posse OF four
men, aided b7 Mr.. :. NJ. Abervrom bic.
raucherO near Chaperito, surrounded Ara
gnr's house az O'Clock on Sunday morning.
Arsgou's wife aud several other women we're
told to vacate the house, and Sheriff Poe. al
though rot knowing that Aragou was really
in the house, knocked on the door aud or
dered the Desperate to surrender No re-
spnuse came, and Deputy John Hurley was
ordered 20 talk q the T0men, who had en-
tered stone house about twenty steps dis
tsnt, and earn what be could IRON them.
hurley interviewed the women aud sscrr-
tanned that there vas "a man" IN tee old
house Re stepped from the doorway aud
called out this Information 10 Sheriff Poe.
and a. that instant Ar4go1 fred from =
window and Hurley fell, dying twenty hours
later. 4 regular 5stfle eusu=d. the officers
fring At Arazon aud vice versa whenever
thcy could csieh sight OF each other. ArsEnn
was about tbs tine shot in the leg aud two
bullets struck hin on the had and glanced