The herald., 1897-02-22
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES
Organized Thuggery Frightens
the New Mexicans
THE PORREGO ASSASSINS
Had Formed a Plan to Blow Up TIE
Penlteutiary
Sunday Off.nses and the Long List OF Deaths
and Damages From Fire, Flood
and Poison
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
SANTA FE, N. NJ. Feb Ex-Governor
Thornton has placed the local company
of infantry on guard a the penitentiary
on account of the discovery of a plot
to blow up the building by friends Of the
four members of the Borrego gang of
assassins who are condemned TO be
hanged next Tuesday, but have been
granted a respite for thirty days by
President Cleveland in disregard of an
appeal from the governor and other
sources to let the law take its course.
Another ominous feature Of the trou-
BILE is the appearance in chalk marks
of the cabalistic figures "B-302-40' on
the doors of the residences of officials,
which the knowing ones recognize as
similar to the call for meetings of the
secret Button gang, which appeared fire.
quently in 1892, just prior to the assas-
sination of ex-Sheriff Frank Chavez.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
NAPA, Feb. 21.-Local officials have
arrested Charles Kugadt. charged with
the murder of his half-sister in October,
1896, in Washington county, Texas. Un-
der the name OF John Frey the man has
worked at the shoe trade here. He has
a wife and children in Texas. Three
hundred dollars reward is offered by
the governor of Texas for his arrest and
conviction. Kugadt is completely bro
ken up by his arrest. He says that him.
self and half-sister were out riding.
when she fell out of the buggy and the
wheels ran over and killed her. He
burned the body and escaped.
WHOLESALE POISONING.
OMAHA. Neb., Feb. 21.-A special to
the Bee from Webster City, Iowa. says:
Fourteen persons were seriously pois-
oned at the Russell house in Humboldt
by eating canned raspberries. Frank
Avery, proprietor of the hotel and his
wife were among the number, which also
included three dining room girls, five
boarders and three travelling men.
NOT DEAD YET
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21-It was
reported in Fresno last night that j. L.
Stillman. who shot and killed John D.
Fiske at Fresno five years ago, had
died. A dispatch from Ukiah. where
Stillman is confined in the insane asy--
lum, says there is no truth in the re-
port.
WAS NOT MURDERED.
MIDDLESBOROUGH, KY, Feb. 21-
Joseph Murdoch of Scott county, Va,
who was supposed to have been mur-
dered twenty-five years ago, and for
which crime Bud Lindsay served a term
in the Virginia pententiary, has re-
turned to his home. Lindsay died re-
Gently.
ROBBERS FOILED.
MUSKOGEE I. T.. Feb. 21-News has
been received at the marshafs Office
here of an attempt to hold up a train
on the Iron Mountain at Watova When
the nighborhood Accommodation" train
took the siding at Watova two masked
men entered the coaches and compelled
Conductor Wallace to hand over the
few dollars in silver that he carried IT
this juncture the regular passenger
train pulled in. 1t had been the inten-
ton OF the robbers, apparently, to hold
up this train, but the alarm had been
given and a crowd of armed citizens
gathered SO quickly that the outlaws
sought safety in flight.
THE WAGES OF SIN.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Mrs. May Skel-
ton, or Shelton, aged 43, who is said to
be the divorced wife of a wealthy Chi
cago dealer in railway supplies, COM
mitted suicide tonight at the Hotel
MEMO by taking dose of carbolic acid
John Turner, aged 2S who is said to be
in the grocery business in Nashville,
Itllil., is prisoner, having been ar
rested on suspicion OF knowing more
than he is willing to admit about the
oman's death.
According to the hotel clerk, the dead
woman and Turner had been living to-
gether at the hotel for some time and
have had frequent quarrels. Today he
was away until late in the afternoon
ard they quarreled when he returned
The woman left the hotel for the carbolic
acid and was found dying in an unoc-
cupied room in the hotel later.
Mrs. Shelton is said to have returned
to Chicago recently, but came back
Saturday to rejoin Turner. 1t is said
she obtained a divorce several months
ago.
1t is learned the lady's maiden name
was May Temple, and that her father
lives in Peoria III.
DESPONDENT AND DEAD.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. 21-Benja-
min r. Bacon, an insurance agent, who
few years ago was one of the wealth.
lest and most prominent business men
in Kansas City, committed suicide in a
room at the Midland hotel at l o'clock
this morning, firing a bullet into his
brain. Dependency following business
reVerses is supposed to be the cause of
the suicide.
FIRE AND FLOOD