Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1893-01-28
R0BBER SMITH.
n Effort to Get Him Ont of the
Yuma Pen.
Canon Diablo Train Robbery
Graphically Recalled.
A WOMAN On THE PANHANDLE.

j. ]. Smith, one Of the four men who
d up and robbed tbs Atlantic 4 Pa.
De- passenger train, near Canon Dlsblo
March, 1883, 10 attempting To get out
the Arizona penitentiary through tIs
(orney, +. NJ. Doe, upon q writ OF he.
as corpus submitted TO the supreme
brit Of that territory last Tuesday. The
plication was accepted, but no action
ksu. II Ia unI rstUod that Mr.. Doe
pects 10 free h,s robber client on some
hnicality Of the law, made possible by
recent change IN the revision % the
tutes.
Readers Of TnE CITIZEN will remember
4 in March Of that year tho people of
buquerque we're thrown into a fever of
itement over the Dews that the pas.
ger train coming this way was stopped
robbed by four men at Canon D,sb.
pupposed to be cowboys and working
rsnchss 10 that vicinity.
u the officers along the entire line OF
Atlantic h Pacific from A Albuquerque
calitornia were notified. and several
bog posses Of Determined men under
then sheriff O'Neill and his deputies,
avspai county, Arizona, started out
III directions from Canon Diablo.
arl +. Holton, o special officer " the
fosd company, was with the posse
led by Sheriff O'Nelll, and they
ted across the bleak. barren desert
Utah, which resulted, after one u
lougest and hardest chases on record.
DO capture Of the entire party.
bs men passed through Albuquerque
, the worn out ofiicera, but IN an In.
, lsw with Sheriff O'Neill THE CirIzES
: ttsr CLEANED the fact that Smith was
me Of the men in chains lie had
: I'D. aid hIs escape was q most re-
: table one.
J bile on the return trip 70 Arizona
y while the train was IN motion
Ration. Smith hurled himself from
NJ the car windows aud rolled down
|seep bank Of the railroad through
mountains. His guard had dozsd
slumber. aud he had taken from
ieeping officer q weapon. On re-
4. ne his equilibrium, Smith started
s the mountains In the direction ot
|. y, and at the point OF bis revolver,
|, bed at ranches and secured the
:. upon which hs was Hy ing from his
m pre-.
.o escape was not observed until the
a. got into Rston, ard after upbraid
be officer for being asleep aud al.
!. 10 such an important prisoner
:. escape, Sheriff O'Ne,ll left
:. ai Officer Holton and two
- p OF the posse behind to
:. the Ration mountains 10 the hops
a. papturinR smith. After . vain
=. OF several days, the mountains
n. left and Holton and the officers
-. on 70 albuquerque aud then pro
:. on N Prescott, Arizona.
- th, In the meantime, had reached
- vel Panhandle county Of Texas,
- ~woman IN the case" finally TO
10 his recapture. Cd the after
v. bf the ninth day, after his thrilling
!. ron the car window. he was travel
=, isurely along the Panhandle, he
tired from his long, forcing rid,
% horse jaded aud fstisusd, when
powered . woman wandering aim
asi. over the barren waste Of land, ard
|ass ving that che appeared TO be In 1
nh. kssd condition, must either be losl
ths great trouble, he rode up to the
,us p and demanded, 10 gentle tones
,sr. er. her condition. With wAv,
our hand and with scarcely in,elligibl'
On she told him that she was lost
the br two days and nights had no
m . morssl OF food. The woman'
are. Asmaoiatsd condition, and knowinI
,sn. he could not survive much longe
On y. suooor, smith, With the ercsa'
he'd ss on bis iimbe and escaping frou
a 10 . that 10 punishsbls by death u
, on New Mexico or Arizona, remeul
but pf passing Q Windmill eight mile
s,e. md rstrscins bis steps, he put th
oms on his borss and took her bao
lhsrs che was supplied with waite
Smita, fsv hours later. cam
chu. camp Of four OF Ave cowboy,
~ q them the story OF the woma
sdy. pre- he had left her. They VET
sf 10 windmill. and there found ii
AIRY Shs was weak bot still aliv
IA hem she stated that she was
soup esobsr from the ssst. taught ,
tiles In the Panhsndls, but hs
rug ID out on the prairie TOO Tar On
6hs was cared for BY the,
bseouth msa of the prairie. an