Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-23

Hartlee shot him in the small of the
back. Riggs shot Puebla second time
and broke his leg, and he fell.
Riggs then caught me by the arm, as
was staggering from the wound Puebla
gave me, and Sprague, another convict,
an office clerk, ran up and putting one
hand over the hole of my wound,
prevented my breath from coming
through it, and took hold of my other
arm, and he and Riggs assisted me to
nay room. Doctors soon came, and
sewed up my wound, and in about six
were several black and blue spots ON
my body where the convicts had struck
me with the handles of their knives
while struggling with them outside of
the sally port.
At first they ordered the keeper to
open the gates of the sally port, and
then Villa, Padillo and Rivera went to-
the residence and demanded arms of
Rule. Rivera had pick, Padillo had a..
crowbar. and Villa had a small sack of
provisions. Villa ran around on the
west side of the prison walls, and started
on the road leading to town, when Dick
Reynolds, guard, opened fire on him.
Villa then jumped down bank out of
sight, and remained. there till the fight
was over, and was taken back, and was
found to be wounded in an arm and
shoulder.
Padillo ran north, towards the Colo
rado river, when G. E. Williams, a
guard, halted him and he surrendered.
Fred Fredley, the yardmaster, Crap
Piled with Rivera, and they fell over
bank twelve feet high, with Fredley ON
top.
John Fl. Behan, assistant superinten-
dent, was in the prison at the time the
fighting commenced, and ran out and
closed the gate of the sally-port, and
ran and got a gun from guard named
d. V. Carter, and went down and cap
tured Rivera.
1 was in a bad condition for some
time but am as we'll as ever now, except
sometimes feel little weakness in
my knees"
He gave the official list of the pris--
oners who attempted to escape:
KILLED.
Librado Puebla, sentenced for thirty
years from October 8, 1887.
Fernando Vasquez, same sentence
from same date. Puebla and Vasquez
both murdered man. and were con-
victed and killed together.
Jose Lopez, sentenced for fifteen
years from May 81, 1887.
Ezequiel Bustamente, sentenced for
five years from September 9, 1885.
WOUNDED.
Albino Villa, sentenced for six years
from May 81, 1886.
NOT INJURED.
Ricardo Padillo, sentenced for six
years from September 13, 1886.
Remijio Rivera, sentenced for one
year from April 13, 1887.
Mr.. Gates then brought out the vest
he wore when Puebla made his murder
GUS stab. The marks of the blade are
very plain where it was turned after it
had entered Gates's body. He also has
the butcher knife that Puebla used, and
the shoe-knives the other prisoners had.
1t was strange how the wound healed,
although it was so deep that the air
came out through it. The whole fight
did not last over two or three minutes.
Puebla died almost Immediately from
his wounds. He was big man, about
six feet high and weighed something
over 200 pounds. Bustamente lived only
a few minutes. Vasquez lived almost
forty-fve minutes, and Lopez lived over
an hour. By O'Clock they were all
dead.
Mr.. Gates praises very highly the con-
duct of his guards in their strict obedi-
ence to orders by shooting when he was
held by Puebla and Bustamente, at the
very time these two villains were en-
deavoring to kill him.
l also interviewed Mr.. Hartlee, and
he tells nearly the same story as does
Mr.. Gates, as he saw it. He knew that
Riggs was convict, and saw him rum
ming with a pistol towards Gates, but
felt an irresistible impulse not to shoot
him. Then he saw Riggs shoot Puebla
and the latter fall, with the knife, drip
ping with Gates's blood, fall over out of
his hand sover his back. Hartlee felt
that he had been restrained by higher
power. 81 tell you," he said, "there
are other beings in this world besides US
B. A. STEPHENS.
Los Angeles, August IS, 1891.