Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-11-14
A Tramp Row.

The gang of over three hundred
tramps which came in Monday night
had a fight among themselves yester-
day morning which will likely result
in the death of one of their number.
Just what the exact trouble was can
not be ascertained, but q pistol play
came up in which a fellow named Jim
my Lake drew a gun on Frank Edgar
Fowle. Several others became impli-
Gated and Fowle, drawing a knife,
stabbed Lake in the left side, the blade
penetrating INTO the lung, and in1Ict-
ing a very serious wound. The would
be murderer was at once arrested by
Sheriff Laird and locked up, as we're
several other members of the gang,
who are believed to have been impli-
Gated. DR.. Stovall being summoned,
attended the injured man, who was
taken TO Silver City on the afternoon
tram. He will likely die. Justice
Field took the dispositions of several
eye witnesses, and is holding Fowle
to await the result of his victims in
juries. Those who saw the fight say
that Lake was the aggressor, while
others claim that Fowle made an un-
provoked attack. Lake is a resident
of Columbus, Ohio, and had travelled
with the gang from Los Angeles. The
cutting occurred at the camp of the
wanderers in the Southern Pacific
yards. The affair created considera-
BILE excitement.-Headlight, Nov. 8.
John Bunte was the real name OF the
victim Of the above tragedy. When he
found that his case was a serious one he
disclosed his identity. Immediately on
arriving he was placed In the Grant
County hospital, and after having recov-
cred sufficiently from the effects of the
opiate administered TO prepare him FOL
the trip from Deming, DIR. Woodville wal
called and upon examination found that
an lntercostal artery had been severed anG
that there was little chance for recovery
The wound was about two and a hal
inches long, between the irst and seconC
ribs OF the left breast and Of sufficien'
depth to penetrate the upper portion o
the left lung.
He died Wednesday night and wa
buried the following day. An inques
was held over the remains and a verdlc
rendered 10 the effect that John Blunt.
came TO his death by reason Of stabbinl
with a pocket knife in the hands o
Frank e. Fowle. An autopsy was hell
lby Drs. Woodville, Blaao, Wood an,
Kennon, revealing facts as above stated.
Bunte was a young fellow % year
old and is described as having an unusu
ally progressing face and presentin0
some evidences Of culture and refine
ment. He had been travelling under a
} alias and was in search Of work. Anon
/ his fellow tramps he was regarded a
superior to the common herd for he wa
| one Of their lieutenants. Informatio
OF his death was sent TO the chief Of pC
lice in Columbus, Ohio, with instruction
to convey the message to the young man
parents, who, he claimed, lived in tha
city.
Some FIRE hend attempted to destro
Julius Wellgehausen's place at Centre
last Saturday morning about 2 o'clocl
= The front Of the building had been BAL
urated with kerosene and o match 81
piled. The blaze wal discovered by
soldier who came out Of a saloon nearl
opposite, and who gave tie alarm. Th
FIRE was extinguished without serior
injury to the property. It really lool
, as though there was a fire bug 10 thi
vicinity.
eEearly every seat for the p%erforman'
of Patience, next Friday night, has bee
/. sold.
! Mr.. John Norman, who has charge
William Walkers tailoring establiahmel
h during that gentleman's absence, Is OF
D. 81 she best tailora inthe southwest, ~