El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-20
BRUTALLY
ASSAULTED
A Woman Seriously Stabbed
BY Her Rejected Lover.
Committed On the Railway Track 8
Less Than a Mile. From the
Custom House.

Custom House.
Because Ramona Viscaya refused t,
marry Antonio Florez he endeavoret
to sta b her to death, yesterday, and i
was through no fault of his tnat th'
woman was not killed instantly. TO
che was carved in q most tiendish ant
brutal manner, once in the breast ano
twice in the abdomen.
She was reported to be dying earl.
this morning from the wounds.
THE ASSAULT.
1t seems for some time past Antonio
Flores, who is about 40 years of age
has been payirg the woman grea
deal of atten ton and while slightly in
toxicated yesterday morning he insist
ed on her marrying him.
She did not entertain his PROPOSE
tion and he pleaded with her for some
time to go away with him. Seeing that
his efforts to secure her consent were
to avail bim nothing, he pulled large
knife from his pocket and stabbed her
twice in the back and once in the
breast, in1icting ugly wounds. The
second thrust of the knife severed the
cerebral nerve and rendered her low
err limbs powerless and she fell to
the railroad track and was soon sur
rounded by an excited throng of Peo-
pie.
The stabbing occurred at the east
entrance into the cut about three quar-
ters of mile west of this city and
while the helpless form of the woman
was stretched out across the rails a dis
taut rum bling heralded the approach
of a train. Itstead of taking her from
the track, as they should have done
they sig nailed the train to stop and
active work on the part of the engineer
saved the woman from being maugled
under the wheels. AS il was the en-
gineer reversed his engine and sue
ceeded in bringing il TO a standsti i
when within but few feet from the
woman.
Special Officer Witt happened TO be
close by and succeeded in capturing
the assassin and lodging him in the
county Jail. Toe w.5gnac was carried
to her home close by ard DR.. Race
summoned. Everything possible was
done to allevlste her misery.
The victim of Antonio Flores's jeal-
Gus rage last night suffered
untold agonies from the cruel knife
wounds in her breast and abdomen.
Her asssilant occupies cell at the
county Jail and when reporter called
this morning he was lying on cot
with d blanket wrapped about his head
and ears. When asked why he assault
ed the woman Flores said he did not
understand English.
He told Ben Jenkins last night that
he was little drunk and did not cut
Romano Viscaya. This morning he
said he was very drunk yesterday and
might have cut her but he had no re-
mem brance of having committed the
cowardly deed.
THE WEAPON.
The weapon Used by Flores was a
large wooden anal pocKet knife with
loose revet. its sharp p,.iut had been
whetted until 1t was almost keen
and sharp as one of the Spanish gaffs
used by the chicken fighters in Juarez
On the blade near the handle WAS
clot of blood and the rivit WAS filed
with sand. which had collected there
when the weapon was thrown down by
the prisoner. The handle of the
knife was split and marked at several
places.
! The knife is now at the county Jail in
tie custody of Deputy Sheriff Heep. 1t
is nicely done up in an envelope and
will be produced in court when Flores
is tried.
HANGING CERTAIN.
There aresnow five men confined in
ing the next term of court for cold
bloOded and deliberate murder and in
all probability at least one hanging
will result from the trial of the crowd
and perhaps more than one. Those
who have a morbid desire to witness
hangipgs may be able to crafty their
curiosity during the ext six months
without going outside of Ell Paso
county.
Those charged with murder are:
Geronimo Parre who killed Fusselman
and the four Mexicans who butchered
the two barkeepers at the smelter.
There has not been hanging in this
county since Castillo was hanged for
rape six or seven years ago, but the
present sheriff or some of his deputies
may be called on ere long to spring the
trap Of gallows.
SOMEWHAT BETTER.
This afternoon the woman who was
assaulted yesterday as reported to be
very low, but there is a bare posi- bill
tV that she will recover