Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-24
TWO TRAIN ROBBERS
They Will Sleep in the Penitentiary
Of New Mexico Tonight At
ter Weeks of Trouble.
One MAY BE aBLACK JACK"
Only One Out Of Four of the Bandits is Now
At Large-Report That the Pair That
Went to Carlsbad Intended to
Rob the Bank.

United States Marshal Foraker will
arrive in this city tonight with two
train robbers, having come by Trinidad
to bring George Stevens, or, as some be-
lieve, the original BLACK Jack" who
was wounded in the latest attempt to
rob a train at Folsom. When he was
wounded he had a pair Of thoroughbred
horses tied a short distance from the
scene of the hold-up. The robber says
he is sorry that he shot Mail Clerk
Bartlett. He warned Bartlett, he says,
three times, to keep his head inside the
door, and the fourth time he shot only
to brighten the clerk. The bullet struck
an iron brace on the door and glanced
and struck Bartlett.
The prisoner seems to be revengeful
| toward Engineer Kirchgraber and Con-
| ductor Harrington. He says if Harring-
ton had not stepped back on the car he
would have fixed" him, even though
his right arm was useless.
The man is a large, fine looking fell
low, about 6 feet III inches tall, and
about IS years of age. He is dark, has
an intelligent face, and has a pair of
bright, piercing dark eyes. He still
claims that his name is George Stevens.
From the very first he %contended that
he would not permit his arm to be am
putated, and it has not been done. When
told that he would likely die unless the
| a MN, vyo raponyynI ha non11U rpn1ipH
Let death come"
With reference to the identification of
"McGinnis,' the train robber the mar
| shall is bringing from Carlsbad, it is
learned that ]. K. Hunt, the Cimarron
merchant, who recognized the prisoner,
had feared the men meant to hold up
his store. He noted their movements
carefully, taking a minute description
of the men, their outfit and horses.
They were in his vicinity about three
weeks.
When the train was held up he gave a
description to the officers. The only
point which did not tally with Hunts
description was the weight of the pris-
oner. At Cimarron he weighed ITS; at
Carlsbad only las. This is explained,
however, by the fact that he has ridden
over 400 miles, suffering with four
wounds, and certainly producing agony
keen enough to reduce him in flesh.
The officers greatly regret the escape
of Franks, the prisoners partner, as he
is regarded as even a more important
man than McGinnis, being considered
the leader of the gang, ranking Ketch-
UNI. Franks was the man who directed
operations and cursed Ketchum and
McGinnis roundly for the manner in
which they delayed matters. He was
in a towering rage and told them they
did not know enough to rob an OK train.
mite, personally blowing open the ex-
press safes on the Southern. It Is be-
lieved that he was the man who killed
Sheriff Farr and wounded Smith and
other members of the posse at the Cim-
AKRON fight.
At the time McGinnis was captured
Franks was away from camp hunting
horses. He returned while the fight was
in progress, but seeing that the battle
was going against his partner, watched
it from a hill half a mile away, and at
the end of it waved his hat to the Off
GERS and galloped off.
Sheriff Stewart had a wounded man
to care for, and was delayed in taking a
train until ten hours later. He followed
in pursuit about $50 miles, but now
knows that Franks doubled on his
tracks at Seven Rivers, seventeen miles
north of town, giving him the slip.
1t is now said that the two men were
contemplating a raid on the bank of
Carlsbad. They had been in town foul
successive nj hits planning the attack.
There is a reward of $1,4O0 for the
men, which will be paid to Sheriff Stew
art Immediately on the conviction of
McGinnis.