The herald., 1898-03-21
e. ]. CR0LY OF SACRAMENTO
Attempts the Apprehension Of a
Housebreaker and Is Mortally
Injured-A Murder
Associated Press Specia! Wire

The shooting occurred about 8 O'Clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Croly and their servant girl
had retired for the night and the house
was dark. Tho supposition is that the
burglars took It for granted the family
were not at home. Mr.. Croly heard voices
In the house and asked his wife If the girl
had company and Mrs. Croly replied that
she believed not. Croly then got out of bed
to investigate and on opening the door OF
his room, which Is in the upper story OF
small cottage, encountered two men. On
OF them had just lit a match and they were
evidently about to enter Croly's bedroom
He grappled with the nearest burglar,
though unarmed, and struck him several
blows with his fists The burglar started
to get away. but Croy, though man fully
60 years of age, followed and continued to
assault the one nearest to him. The burg
lar then drew a pistol and fired two shots
at Croly. Both took effect, one In his left
and the other In his right breast, both well
up near the coliar-bone Croly fell in the
hallway and the men escaped.
Chief Of Police Dwyer and several of1c-
ers and q doctor soon arrived, and while
the latter attended the wounded man the
police searched tho premises. but the burg
lars had of course got away. 1t was found
that one of the bullets had cut an artery and
Mr.. Croly sank rapidly. He was cool, how
ever. and gave the officers fairly good
description of the burglars. One was a
man about five feet eight inches tall with a
dark mustache and well dressed The 9TH
er was short. heavy set man, whose fea-
lures he was not able to see plainly 1t ic
thought that Crosy cannot live. Only a
few weeks ago his former partner, S1as
Carrie died. They were prominent con-
tractors and had erected many county and
public buildings in this state, including the
Fresno courthouse. They also built the
great ninety mile fiume that supplies San
Diego with water.
While William Phillips and family were
absent from their home at Twenty-fourth
and NJ streets this evening the house was
ransacked by burglars. A gold watch and
some jewelry was stolen.
e. J. Croly. who was shot tonight by two
burglars in his home, was alive at o'clock
this morning, but 1t is thought he cannot
live many hours.
There is great public indignation tonight
and talk of citizens organization to clear
the city of every idler IN it.
BLACK JACKS GANG
Ell PASO, Tex, March 2O-News has
reached here from Casas Grandes, Mexico,
of the terrible fate which had befallen the
members of Black Jacks gang. who es-
capped from this country several months
ago, soon after their leader was slain, and
sought refuge from pursuit by American
officers in the Businesses of the Sierra
Madre mountains of Old Mexico The Black
Jack gang of desperadoes and cutthroats
for several years terrorized the entire bor-
EAr hntrx lA,A 4 ~,
mia, and 1t remained for the avenging an
gels of the Mormon colonies in the vicinity
OF Casas Grandes, Mexico, to hunt down
and annihilate the gang.
On February 23d Mrs. A. r. Mcdonald
a Mormon woman, wife of a prominent
resident of one OF the settlements, was
murdered by two unknown men. She was
q storekeeper at Round Valley, sixty miles
east Of Cacas Grandes, in an isolated local
ity. The ruffains split her head open with
a hatchet, looted the store and escaped.
The brutal crime aroused the entire Nor
mon community, and the avenging angels
of the Mormon church were commissioned
to hunt down the murderers They secured
the mountains In all directions. On Sum-
day. March 9Th, the RENDEZVOUS of the out
laws was located in lonely, unexplored
During Sunday night the avengers closed
in upon the outlaws. nine in number.
At daybreak voice from the rocks COM
manded the bandits to surrender, warn
ing them that resistance meant DEATH
They had just begun to stir when the sum-
mons came They made a dash for their
weapons. but were shot down before they
were able to defend themselves. The work
nF ia on
party of American prospectors. returning
to civilization, stumbled by accident upon
the camp of the outlaws several days later
and counted the dead. They subsequently
learned from the Mormon settlers the man
ner In which the desperadoes were killed.
The Black Jack gang was the most des-
perate we'll organized and successful band
of outlaws that has operated in the south
west in recent years.
Large rewards were offered by the gov
ernment and the express companies for the
capture Of the outlaws, dead or alive.
MURDER AT MUsKOGEE
MUSKOGEE,I. T., March 2O.-A BASTARD
ly outrage was committed last night near
the town of Wybark, five miles north Of
here, resulting in the death of two men
and a woman. The house of Ed Chalmers
- ACSio WIN IcCcHtiy iIdTTleu Il WHlle
woman, was attacked during the night by
Six white men, who had evidently determ-
ined to murder both the negro and his wife
both OF whom had been threatened by
white men who dsliked the union. A door
of their cabin was broken in and both the
negro and his wife were shot down. but not
before Chalmers had put up a good fight
against his assailants. The woman was
killed outright and although Chalmers
succeeded in driving Off the attacking
party they left him mortally wounded. and
he died before daylight. This morning the
body Of Matthews, an aged white man who
lived at Gibson's station, was found near
the Chalmers cabin. pierced with bullet.
Matthews answers the description yiven
by Chalmers before he died of one of his
assailants. There were evidences that
Matthews body had been dragged from
Chalmers house to the place where II was
found. A gun lay beside the BODY. evil
IDENTIFY put there to give the impression that
the dead man murdered the negro and bis
wife. Deputy United States marshals are
investigating the killing, and it Is believed
that the murderers will be brought to ms
tice.
ROBBED A BANK
HUTCHINSON, Kas., March Y-Tbe
Bank Of Nickerson, at Nickerson. Kas
~sar here, was robbed last night. Five