Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25

tonic This they also held up. and attc
/ rohbing the passengers and the mail sack
! they cut the harness OF the stage team an,
escaped across the Malpais country. Before
! leaving the stage party they admitted tina
| they were the men who had attempted q
hold up the passenger train at Rio Puerco
and they swore vengeance upon Loomis aut
/ the pursuing parties.
\ few days after this double robbery two
Wboys rode up to a camp where some cat
tlemen on a roundup had halted for lunch
fhey inquired for George Parker, a cattle
man. Parker stepped up and one OF the
strangers inquired:
rs your name parker?"
Receiving an affirmative reply the stranger
drew his revolver and said:
"Ncll, your time is come, | am going TO
kill you"
without further words he shot Parker
dead. Turning to the astonished group OF
cattcmcn the stranger named two friendt
OF men in the group who. he declared, were
marked and would be shot down in the same
way as soon as found. The two men then
mounted their horses and made of. 1t was
learned subsequently that Parker had been
with Loomis pursuing party,
The robbers continued their exploits In the
Malpais country, and for some time no posse
cared to go out In pursuit OF them They at
tempted to enter the general store of the El
Captain Land and Cattle company at Rich
ardson. but the employees were on the alert
were driven away by a vigorous show of re,
sistance. Richardson is on the north side OF
Ell Captain mountain, facing the great open
plains leading to Los Pinos wells, and 1t is
probably the most isolated settlement in the
territory.
PURSUIT OF DESPERADOES
On October "a a telegram of inquiry was
received in Albuquerque from San Antonio,
asking the cause of the delay OF the daily
stage from White oaks There had been
heavy rains in the country, but that was not
a good reason for such a long delay. and
fears were expressed that the stage had been
held up again. Captain Albert Hollenbock,
owner of the stage line, set cut to look up the
missing stage, Just beyond the mountain re-
lay station he encountered a man armed with
rifle lying beside his horse some distance
below Without stopping to make further
inquiry Hollenbeck turned and rode rapidly
b-ck. AS he did so he observed several
mounted men waiting for signals from a re-
treat further off from the main road. Organ
iZing posse, Captain Hollenbeck set out
again for the missing stage, and when about
twenty miles out from White Oaks they met
the stage driver coming along the road afoot.
Soon after they met another stage driver,
also afoot. The report of two more stage
robberies worked the entire country up to
q high state cf excitement The robbers in
these two cases were rather jovial. AS they
ripped open the mail sacko they suggested to
the driver that he should tell the govern
ment to send out the mail in baskets to save
the trouble and expense of cutting up the
pouchc0 They stated that they had secured
over 500 the previous week and they hoped
for larger profits on the midwinter business.
After running off the horses they did not
wait, and cutting up the harness, they struck
off into the hills with their booty. On one of
these stages was more than s., 900 in bullion,
but the driver told the robbers that the box
contained a clock and they did not disturb it.
Captain Hollenbeck sent down to Las
Cruces for Pat Garrett, sheriff, who has the
record of being the best officer in the south
west He made himself famous some yearc
ago by capturing, unaded the notorious
BILLY, the Kid" With a posse Garrett
started off into the Malpais country, pre-
pared for a long campaign against the rob
bers. Recent kilograms show that the rob-
bers have moved out and are now at work in
another district The Solomonvlle and Cen
tral postoffices were robbed last week. and
tho authorities expect to receive notice here
of more depredaticns any day. Some day
the cowboy robbers will be captured, and
without loss of time the entire gang will be
placed where they never again can molest
star route postoflces.