Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1896-10-10
THE BANDITS! !
tn y Hold Up and Rob tho White
Oaks Stage,
DEPUTY United States Marshal
Loomis Interviewed.
He Tells Of HIS Chase and HIS Experience
al Rio Puereo.
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
A GRAPHIC NARRATIVE.


stag cutting and ruhhing all the mail
ISu drS,
Trey ~Ait they we're going on Ia nrrt
and fuh tnr natl stage rn route t. san
Antuuin, - hlch VIA then near Malpal~
pass
Al TIN, hour the stage from White
UAk-. overdue twenty four hours. has not
yet rrHcl"" here aud tie probabilities are
that The -.a.r WA Robbed and the driver
killed.
Y, later NrwS are ~ Tar uhtaluAhr.
,u,-E AIItW KpmfR..
" II. lp,mi-. the ni,rd states deputy
marshal VITO was uu IL" W.. Atlantic
n in.,uc ,iS-rngpr train un the nlght ul
Uct = WhrlI II was ~ the hands ui the
ruai agent, aud who used his shot gun
to ~, nulu,.r. shooting aud killing uiIr
NJ thr bandits, returned from ia" south
last uight aud submitted H. the following
interview regarding his chas" after thu
escaping bandits,
II left NihuJurfqu" un the morning ut
the ST." rrunatkrd MI, luinl-, with
special ulref tair SrlN, iuf ~ucufru.
aud from there w. tsik the branch train
tor Nagdtlria. lhrt" got four men
iron sam Locke, deputy under sheriff
liut nm. Hu W. rUde iur about twenty Tive
mil, southwest, Ia the north end ~ the
san Mh,-u mountains. stopping al the
huts, taucu uf Al. Clrmen
r thr morning ~ the nh AT daN light,
| p,. loukulit- un the highest IHlnt-.
Just u rrutidc saw white nurse at IA
dist zee un ,hr yellow plains tuWaId san
Mar II. "a returning to the ranch
disc Nrlrd mat twn white ur gray horses
had .rriI tdh"n from Clemens back past.
urr tr~ hours prev luusl,, alId that two
hur, :. hot NrrN wurnuut hut exhausted
-ol.. belonging Ia ". ;. ilop.wrlI ot
liIli 'rtU. aud the other tu Capt, sanders
RAM 'lnan north ut Maglalrna, were left
graz ,Ig outside Of III" pasture.
II wi- now ahuut Slnlu~n, and know.
ing the gray horses H. l." unusually
gpHl OIie-. thought II ~a- Useless a. pur'
sue ~ the night, ~ far behind them and
with p,S,frr stock Mr.. S-l,y aud myself
thrn rode all that night. reaching SororrO
In I ne tur the ~uuth-houni tram on the
MOI ,ing ~ the 9th. W. went to Lake
\ailrN. tu"k the stage Tor llil-boro. ~.
curri -ix men thorough. acquainted
Wit the country. aud scattered them AT
all ~ high points and passes. They rr'
mai ,sl out Intll the night oi the ,th.
ami ~ no signs of the escaping bandits
TAX, i. some other route. aud returned "a
Albuluerln" laat night, accompanied by
Mr. ,"lNy
- little incident" continued Mr.
| Loiris, OCCURRED about four miles west
uf \"tt'- station on III. afternoon Of the
7th. Thp section foreman saw IA man
coming from the north. cross the railroad
trar,. and going "a the southwark ~ fast
~ h horse could run. Abnut mill be.
hln, camr another hurSrInan on n dead
run. The man In the lead reached the
| littlr ridge lust beyond the station, stop.
ped hiS horse for u moment, pulled his
Win hester, turned IL, his saddle AMI shot
back. aud then went on. Both riders we're
sOoi l0~t tU view. ! cRnnni give All rG'
plan alton II this incident"
Nj l.oomis II under the impression that
two of the bandits will probably hr
mounted on the gray horses alluded Ia
ahO,p, ~ th"N were extra tine animals
Onr ~ the horses II branded with the
capitals ~ T." and u" other with III"
capitals "lP," connected into u muI"
gra'n.
tn. deputy marshal viii remain here
attending court for frw ~, but states
that hr ~ ready, nj any moment. Ia take
the 'i"ld un the lIkOut ior the bandits.
III HIU rtkk'O kNrkHifNt
A,,rr nm. persuasion Mr. Lnmis gave
out n publication IN 1nk tIIIztN thr
fnll wing authentic account m his Yer
sion 4 the iio Puerco holdup;
II Wa IN the smoking ear, Trplir'l
Mr.. pnnI~. when the -huting brgau
go. up vent to the front d u of thr
coat 90. ani hy the whiS,ling uf bullet.
was rnvinr"d that II Wa hold.up
turned AMI went back through the coach
and ,rurrd my repeating shot gun, IN
which W., two loads II buck shot.
jumIrd 10 The ground AMI laid there unit
| could sr'. Il being Nery dark. could
sre bunch Of men coming from III,
engine la, along the front baggage ear
| VII, afraid tO shoot. for fear ~ killing
som, raillnad men who were helms
brought h,rk "a uncOuple the express
ear
II rrawrd forward beside the Ia,
cna, I, wlrn saw man separate from
the bunch and 10y his giving orders
knp, him a. be the leader ] hred a
him. at "A distance Of nearly three cal
lenrIhs, aud he fell Instantly. lie go
up and shot at me twice, one bullet
viii ,tling Internationally clnse. ! i'm
mpdiately tired the other load. lie dis
app,Arpd then. not being positive
; thai hal killed him, and being theI
withnit ammunition. returned ~ IN,
Iay coach and put i've or six loaded she'll
~ suck shot into my gun.
The train In the meantime hAh moves
up few ,ar lengths. went ~ the doc
Of the ear, jumpei on aud III 0n the en-
Of t,e tra-llp Of the Rio PueTc0 bridge
fall,ug through the bridge "a the ~!i
dirI ,rloN A struck the ground, tn
tran Iart"i again, ran around an
eau. ht tn rear Pullman aud crossed IN
bridyr with the train, and ~ did the T0h
Der, al Ihr front end, except the on
shot
" Iter crossing the bridge the robl~r
sect "i a. have no plans and kept cAliln
iur H'Ole.' might ppssibly have KILLS
one more, hut | never had any assnfanc
tina, any man ] could st+ III front wa
not A trainman. The robbers then lef'
guiI Z southwark. The train then back
ei T. the station for orders, and when
left for albuquerque rosie IN the ca
with thu engineer until VIZ passed. u
bridge, from where the robbers had iet
hal the engineer stop and let me OF
being fully convinced that had n wound
ri nian somewhere In the weeds besid
the track,
81 walked back across the bridge, III
trnlu having gone On a. Albuqurfqu'
ant hunted along the track Tor the bo,i
: cnld ~. u white object AT q short di
tAuce, which proved 10 be = shirt. II vi
40 dark could not make Out his f0ru
and NAT INV hand down on the tack OK h