Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-05-19
ANOTHER MURDER.
Constable c. y. Schultz Shot While Taking
Prisoners to the County JAIL. p.
Ownby, tho Guard, Not
Motestod-The Prfa-
onsra Fscapo.

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last week Q. h. Schultz had star ID TO
Silver City with three prisoners, j. p.
Ownby, not his son Bramble, going
along as a guard. The prisoners we're
Celso Anala and Davido Ramires, who
had been bound over to the grand
jury on the charge Of burglarizing T.
r. Brandt's store at Stems Pass and
u, Sena who had been sent up for
sixty days for an assault made at
Pyramid. When the party left town
Ramires and sena were handCuffed
together and setting on the front seat
with Schultz, who was drlyingl
Anala, who was the oldest and largest
men Of the prisoners and an old Grim
inal, vas sitting on the back seat With
Mr.. Ownby, with his feet shackeled
and his hands free. In this same way
they passed through Gold Hill and
stopped at George Hornbrooks for a
rest.
While at Hornbrook's the three
prisoners were sitting on the water
trough, laughing, talking and wills
pering together. Mr.. Hornbrook.
thinks the affair was planned then, he
warned the officers that the prisoners.
we're likely to make them trouble be-
fore they got them to Jail, but the Of
lcers seemed confident. They left
there seated in the wagon in the same
manner as when they left Lordsburg.
Mr.. Ownby's pistol was on the seat I'M
der a blanket.
Out on Cactus Flat, fifteen miles
from Silver City, Anala, the big Mexi?
can, showed Mr.. Ownby out Of the
wagon, grabbed his pistol that was
under the blanket and snUt
Schultz three times, once through the
head, just in front Of the ear, once
through the shoulder and once
through the body the bullet entering
between the shoulder blades. Mr..
Ownby made a run away from the
wagon, which us be had no gun was
the only thing he could do. The Mex
leans drove the horses on nearly to
Silver City, unhitched them and rode
into town. MI. Ownby started for
town on foot through the mud and
rain. He got as far as. the. cemetary,
where he fell exhausted and laid out
in the rain all night.
The first that the officers knew of
the matter was the next morning
when Sena appeared at the Jail and
told Sheriff Laird what had happen
ed. He still had the handcuf1 on one
hand. He said that he had jumped
out Of the wagon and walked in, being
all night on the road. Sena has told
different stories and there is good evil
dence that he came to town with the
others ann the cuffs we're fled apart
in town. Sheriff Laird went out with
n team and found Mr.. Ownby aud
took him to the hospital.
Sheriff Laird, Charlie Davenport
and Deputy Baca then went out and
brought SchutZ's body i'm and turned
it over to the coroner about noon. In
the afternoon it was found that.Anala
and Ramires had been 10 town during
the night and Deputy Baca started
after them, but at last accounts had
not found them. If he had got an
earlier start he might have overtaken
them that day, as they were at Santa
Rita on Friday.
Sheriff Laird telegraphed to Lords.
burg on Friday morning BramblC
Ownby and Nick Hughes started out
Immediately. When last heard from
they had news that Anala was headed
for Hatch, or Colorow as it used TO be
called, a place near Rincon where
Anala was married. Ownby was or
his way to the place to try and meet
Anala. Sheriff Laird has offered a re,
ward of $500 for his capture, dead Of
alive. Anala does not seem anxiou:
to get out of the country aud the
prospects are good that he will be cap
tured. 1t is to be hoped that he vii
be brought to LordsburG for a prclim
mary hearing.
Mrs. Ownby went over to Silver City
to care for her husband, who is in the
hospital. The old gentleman had al
awful time of it, but his wife writes
that he is fast improving and will be
able to come back to Lordsburg, a,
soon rs the weather is a little NOR,
settled.
After the coron er's inquest Thos
Foster, the commissioner from thli
district had the undertaken properly
dress and coffin the body and ship il
to Lordsburg. Mr.. Foster gave hii
personal attention to the matter anC
did all that could be done. The body
arrived Saturday afternoon, wa.
taken to his house and bnrieC
~tberefrom at ten o'clock Sunday morn
ing, the body being laid to rest il
the Shakespeare cemetry.
@. b. Schultz was born in Hanover
Germany, about t~hirty-aye years ago
He lived in Pennsylvania, st. Louil
aud El Paso. Hecame to Lordsburg