El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-05

chum was captured q month later and
it was in consequence of a robbery at
the same little town that MCGinn1s,
another member OF the gang, fell into
the hands of the law.
1t was on the night of July IL of the
present year that the ROBBERY first
mentioned was committed at Folsom,
the gang at that time being composed
OF McGinnis, the two Ketchums and
George Franks. A posse went in pur
suit of the robbers aud during the
chase fought two desperate battles
with them, the details of both of which
will b. remember by those who kept
up with the press dispatches in the
Post at the time. In one of these en-
county, Colo, was killed. as was a
United States marshal who made one
of the pursuing party. McGinnis and
Sam Ketchum we're both wounded. the
latter, by strange ram in fatality s,moyt
identically the same spot as
that in which his brother received a
leading missile month later. After
the last fight the gang separated.
the immense strain through which he
had just passed. went to ranch house
which he encountered during his re-
treat, and asked for assistance. The
lady of the house gave him food and
dressed his wounds, and greatly re-
freshed, the pursued outlaw left his
benefactress and started for his horse,
which, with his weapons, he had left
some little distance away. Shortly af-
ter his departure the owner of the
ranch, accompanied by his son, return
ed from a trip to town. The former
had at one time been sheriff of the
country and was well informed as to
the history of "Blsck Jack" and his
followers. Consequently, when his
wife told him of the visit. of
the wounded man he i'm
mediately connected the fugitive
with the fight which ne
his SOD, arming themselves, galloped
after the late visitor. They succeed
ed in catching him before he reached
his horse. He was in no condition to
to put up fight, especially as his
guns were with his mount. and in con-
sequence his arrest was easy. He was
taken to the Jail at Santa Fe, where he
died shortly afterwards from blood
poisoning. He absolutely refused to
he said, he would rather die that way
than on the gallows, or spend the re-
mainder of his life in jail.
Many attempts to secure Information
concerning the remainder of the gang
from the wounded prisoner on his ar
rival at Santa F'e all proved futile.
Tom Ketchum, he said, had been dead
for some time.
The men who captured K etchum will
divide in the neigh borhood of $4,000
reward money offered by Arizona and
New Mexico, the Wells Fargo Express
company and the Colorado and South
eru railroad.
1t is estimated that, since about 1886,
when the "Black Jack" gang first came
into prominence, 200 men have been
killed and over $500, 900 stolen as a re-
suit of operations. At one time, after
the Wells Fargo robbery at Lozier,
this state. the Texas rangers in pur-
suit of the band encountered the camp
which the outlaws had abandoned some
twenty-four hours previously. Scat
tered around the ashes of the campfire
were found quantity OF silver coins
which had been so bent and
twisted by the explosion on the charge
of dynamite with which the express
company's safe had been wrecked as to
render them altogether useless. The
passing of the money by any OF the
mem bers of the gang would, of course,
have led to their detection, and, al
though the amount represented was
not a small one, the outlaws abandoned
1t entirely Another evidence of the
thoroughness of their methods was
disclosed by the body Of a WORKOUT
pack horse. The animal, having be-
come useless, had been killed and the
skin bearing the brand stripped from
the carcass.
With one of the notorious Black Jack
gang dead, two others safely behind
the bars and only one, who is being
closely watched for, still at large, it
may naturally be inferred that an eff
fectusl quietus has been put on the fes-
tive bandits who have fiourished for
so long on the plains and among the
mountains of Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona. At any rate the railroad and
express companies are well satisfied
with the work done by the officers who
have dealt with various members of
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