El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-13
Three Well Known El Pas0
Boys Arrested This
Morning.
TWAS ALL A MISTAKE
Ben Williams Posse Takes
Them In On Suspicion
Of Being the Daring
Bank Robbers.

Two telephone messages from Earl
sham, n. NJ, tell of unexpected de-
velopements in the pursuit of the sup.
posed robbers of the bank at Las
Cruces yesterday.
The posse which started on the trail
of the robbers seems 10 have divided,
the one under Sheriff Pat Garrett
going east. and the other. composed OF
Ben Williams, the deputy sheriff, Clint
Llewellyn and brother, sons of Major
Llswellyn, and Bob Finley, going in
, the direction of Earlham.
This second posse reached Earlham
at eleven O'Clock last night, and re-
mained there all night This mornin ng
telephone message was sent by Ben
Williams to the local police statiou
saying that Johr and Joe Dougher and
Nelson Smith, of this city, were sus-
pected of completely in the robbery,
and warning the police to look out for
them.
Officer Taylor, who received the
message, Thought there must be some
mistake, and told Mr.. Williams so, but
the latter.insistad that there were three
4 eye witnesses, and tha. he was right.
CAPTURED AT EARLHAM.
A little later a telephone message
from ~sEarlham stated that the two
Dougher boys had been captured there
q, six O'Clock this morning. They b ad
come in there with a wagon and team
oI- <>,a {rh
and had camped at the bridge. The
arrest was made this morning. Earl
ham is q station on the Santa Fe rail
road and is fifteen miles from Las
Cruces.
To a correspondent OF the HERALD
Ben Williams stated that the boys
were wanted for the robbery simply be-
cause they had been sc en- in Las Cruces
at about that time, and that there was
no further evidence against them.
To the deputy and to the correspon-
dent the young men stated that they
were wholly innocent, and they gave
such a straight account of themselves
that they were released and started to
El Psso.
Shortly after, a message was received
from Cruces from Sheriff Garret, who
had returned there, instructing Will
liams to hold them, and he accordingly
rearrested them, aud, at about nine
o'clock the posse and the three young
men started back to Las Cruces.
WELL KNOWN IN Ell PASO.
The Dougher boys, John and Joe,
are known to most people in Ell Paso,
and every one is unwilling to believe
that they are in any way connected
with the robbery.
They are the sons of Mrs. John
Dougher, who owns acd operates the
Grand Central hotel on El Paso and
San Francisco streets. They are young
fellows of good appearance and ability,
and without any evident incentive for
bank robbery as means of acquiring
wealth.
They left FL Paso three weeks and a
half ago on prospecting trip, intend
ing to go on to the San Andreas
mountains where they have q claim,
just south OF the Black mountains.
They left Ell Paso in wagon drawn
by two mules, aud with no horses what
ever. They were accompanied by
! Nelson Smith, another we'll known
young man in Ell Paso, a brick layer,
and friend of theirs.
1t is presumed that they had reached
Earlham last night on the return trip.
MRS. BOUCHER IS ILL.
Mrs. John Dougher, mother of the
Dougher boys, is seriously i'll in her
room at the Grand Central, and be
cause of the shock it Is feared the
news will give her, she has not been
told of the reported arrest.
Mrs Daugher was told at the last
moment of the arrest and release, and
was much affected.
Mrs. W. NJ. Mccoy, daughter of
Mrs. DOugher, and sister of the boys,