Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1888-12-07
RESCUED FROM DEATH
An Armed Band Breaks Into o
jan and Takes Out n
Man
Awaiting Execution - Presumption
That lie Was Innocent-Negr0es
Create a Riot
One Of Them Found Dead Tnmps TGhs
Possession Of = NV York Village
Etc

wTrHEvrLLE Va, Nov. IA band q
armed men wearing masks broke open the
jail here az three O'Clock yesterday morn
Ing aud rescued wayman sutton. under
sentence Of death. which was TO have been
executed to-day, for the murder Of Peter
Harvey. The jailer's statement Il that .
party Of men went there and demanded
admittance. which he refused. They there
upon broke tue door open with a sledgs
hammer and the front hall was imms-
diHtely filed with masked men armed with
doubled barreled guns and pistols. They
covered him with a dozen guns and de-
handed the keys to the cells. which no re-
fused, whcreup0u they searched his pri-
vate apartment aud found them In his
wife's sewing machine. After securing
Sutton they locked up some OF the guards
In his cell aud left for the west end OF tue
county. The parry IL variously estimated
by persons who saw II NJ from nfty 10 one
hundred persons. A sicdge hammer that
was used was found In the Jail.
Peter Harvey was murdered in March,
1881, and the evidence, all of which was
circumstantial, pointed 20 Wayman SUIT
ton aud his father-in-law, Morgan PEN
dleton, as the perpetrators OF the deed.
Hsrvey's house had been previously de-
stroyed by an incendiary and himself bad
~ wounded by a would-be assassin, aud
he was stiii suffering from the wound whom
murdered. Pendleton and Sutton were
seen In the n~eighhorhood OF the house pre-
vious 20 the murder, aud the general i'm
preston in the -neighborhood was that they
had been hTed TO kill him. Pendleton is
said TO be IN Kentucky, aud n letter pur-
porting 10 have been written by him in
which he declared that he and not Sutton
was the murderer was recently submitted
10 Governor Lee. Sutton was arrested la
Indiana last June and brought back to
Wytheville. where his trial took place.
He was convicted aud all appeals had
failed.
FIGHT IL SAVANNAH.
SAVANNAH, Ca, Nov. 30.-An nttemut
by the police 20 quell a disturbance among
a crowd Of disorderly negroes In the
western part Of the city yesterday after
noon resulted In n riot, during which a
negro was killed, two policemen and a
white man seriously injured and several
negroes wounded. Patroleman McMurrav
In dispensing the crowd was SGT upon and
knocked down. The crowd closed in ON
him, but he got up and nndinE
his club useless. drew his revolver
and began firing. Other officers
heard the firing and FASTENED 20
the place. Patrolman Cronan was knocked
down and his skull broken. NJ. Murray
was driven three or -four blocks down the
street and escaped into n house, but the
crowd broke through the windows and
fIv.us hfAs fpe, 9B.. aEr..t .-l.-. -
women beat him with bricks until insens;-
BILE The police were notified at headuunr-
tiers undu squad of mounted officers soon
arrived. BY this time 1000 negroes were
in the street and crying, xiii them, kill
theA." The police held the crowd back
and eight Of the ringleaders were arrested.
The crowd was flually dispersed. Last
night amegro with seven bullet wounds in
his body was found dead in the part of the
city where the shooting occurred.
KEW MEXICAN AssAssINs CAUGHT.
A-IBUpUERQUE, n. NJ, Nov. 3O.-The u u
posed murderers OF Dumas P~rovinehere,
the Democratic judge of election, killed ut
San 9ose, Valencia County. on election
night while counting the ballots, have
been captured, and the magistrates. on
the strength OF the testimony. which was
circumstantial but strong against the
prisoners, ordered their confinement in
the Sorocco County Jail for safety to await
the action of the Valencia County grand
jury. Deputy United States Marshal
Block passed through the city last night
In charge Of the culprits-Jose Phadilla
and Juan Garcia-who are dangerous
looking Mexicans.
YOUNG d KILLED.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 3l.-John Y.
King, n young law student, was shot and
killed on Orchard street. near Donovan's
saloon, about five O'Clock yesterday after
noon. The affair is very mysterious, aud the
police have discovered no clew to the MUIR
derer. The saloon proprietor denies all
knowledge Of the affair. No arrests have
been made and nothing Of Importance has
been developed. Stories are in circulation
connecting King with n married woman
with whom he has beer intimate. These
stories, IL true. may account for the shoot-
ing.
RArDED ny TKAMPs.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, New. 30.-It Is re-
ported in tins city that at n little
hamlet near Clean, on hhe Buffalo, New
York q Philadelphia railroad, upwards
of seventy tramFs made their appearance
at an early hour this morning and began
20 invade the tow and ransack dwellings.
Forty men with ~shotguns attacked them.
The tramps soon had the shotguns.
Further assistance was asked of surround
ing towns. No more particulars could be
learned.
Condolences.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The Secretary
OF State has sent the following telegram to