El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-23
FALSELY ACCUSED.
An Attempt to Hound Down Three Men
Who Were Good Officers.

George Scarborough, who passed
through town yesterday, en- route east,
is justiiBbly mad over the rumoc that
was put in circulation here about him.
self, J. d. Milton and Frank Nc
Mahon being con 1ected with the
Grant hold up OF the Santa Fe Pacific
train, and the rumOr shows 20 what eX-
tent the enemies of those three parties
" ill go to injure them. No one who
knew either George Scarborough, j
d. Milton or Fraok Me Nation believed
for one moment The rnmor and close
friends Of thCs, parties denouoced l. at
Cnce as malicious and base falsehOOd.
Every since tie killiog of Martin
Nj rose at the Santa Fe bridge several
years ago by the three parties whose
names are mentioned above, an effort
has been maze in Ell Paso by a certain
element to hound them down and
falsely accuse than OF all kiuus OF
Grim s. sl5hough in the killing of NJ rose
they ridded the country OF dangerous
desperate, aad the true evidence in
the case showed that they killed him
in the discharge of their duty as officers
and becau-e he refused to SURF euder
whe n called upon and even shot Scar
borough through the hat.
Siace that time enemies of those
tarties have attempted to throw slurs
fee 5. These accusations were not
ma lie to the faces of these parties, but
behind their b tcks a I'D in way that
would Go them Injury without he cic-
Gu ators of the reports being in any
danger themselves. These reports
were started because Messrs. Scar
borcu h, Milton ard McMs hon wei @
making good officers and were do ng
tn ir duty without fear or favor to any
md - -. h,
lie / by any click or clan They took
the law as their guide and carried it
out to the letter. For this Trey have
b zen hUunded and abused, and it was
for this r. ason they were charged by
their e7emies, with being the parties
to mold up the Santa Fe Pacific train at
Grant station, and the tracks of the
real robbers could b. covered up.
These charges were mbde VIII l. frien Is
and even the express compaoies who
were robbed knew whera the parties
accused were located when the robbery
took place.
While or this subject it is well to state
that rumors have Deen rife for some
time that an attempt will soon be made
to nod up either the Sou herl Pa .itic
or Texas q Pacific traid east of this
city. The express companies know of
these rumOrs and have taken precau
lions by putting guards on all outsO-
ing trans. 1t is also known that on
the island below Yslata that there is a
gang of suspicious looking characters
reL dezvousing a ID what their busine IS
Is there no one seems to know ard just
how many there is in the gang, but it
Is known for certainty that
there are four in the eaog and
they have been there for ten
days or more. Besides this several
suspicious characters have been nov
ing back and forth over the Southern
Pacific from west to east and the sup
position has been that they We're spies
for B ack Jacks gang. 1t is not now
re p 'r'e /, nor has it been that any Of
hcer has been watching this outfit or
trying to fnd out their business, while
the express companies are either
d"pf ndlng for safety on their guards
on the train or are depend G on the
rangers to p otect them from the gang
on e Island, but the pre- iict on i
made that it will rot be many days
bafore something occurs that will be
OF a starti g nature and lille will be
lost or II al n robbery occur.