El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-05
FOUGHT WITH DA66ERS ON THE
SCAFFOLD.
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occasion to enter the Jail.

the ] Oil, came early anu roudiuSo oil
morning with the men. Through his
earnest efforts both men con fessed aud
declared that they would die in the
faith of the Catholic church. The
father read to them selections from the
gospel of ST. Luke, in Spanish, dwell
ing es pecially upon the fifteenth chap
ter.
| With PARA were some eight rela-
tives, including his brother and his sis
ter-in-law, with their children. These
stood around, talked occasionally, but
for the most part merely stared in
apathetic and rather piteous fashion.
PARA made up bundle and gave it
to one of them. In It'll were few OF
| his little possessions, which he wishes
to be kept as remembrances by ahis
family.
The men were sgiven their dinner
and PARA ate heartily. while Flores
whose stomach had been troubling
him during the mig ht, also h ad q good
appetite.
They thanked Captain Lyons for his
attention and kindness to them and
wished to be forgiven for all the worng
they had done.
Flores's family told him goodbye
yesterday, and were not at the jail to-
day.
Parra's family, including many rela-
tives, staid until IL o'clock, but their
parting WAS singulsrly cool, and not
marked by any display of affection.
HOW THEY GOT THE DAGGER NOT
1t was ten minutes of one when the
jail doors were opened and those who
had been given passes were admitted
by jailer Lyons. The crowd comforta-
bly, filed the ante room of the jail, and
mbered perhaps one hundred in all.
Flores and PARA had just come
down from the death cell, and had
been conducted to the vacant cells on
the third tier in the Jail proper near
the scaffold. They had come down
one at q time, with Eugene Bruce, the
death watch, in charge. PARA
descended with firm step, and heed,
erect. Flores came, with a hand on
the bannister, and . scuffiing step.
The priests, Fathers Cordova and
Pinto, attended them.
When the time came to admit the
spectators into the jail enclosure, Sher-
if Boone said:
"The newspaper men and doctors
will come in first and take their places.
Then the others may follow"
AS the spectators thronged into the
scene Of the hanging they saw the two
priests on the outside of the cells talk
ing to the prisoners through the bars.
Inside, the condemned men, clad only
in shirt, shoes and trousers. with
CHASTITY faces wan and drawn, pacing
to and fro, with that peculiar, hopeless
movement that one so often sees in
wild animals confined in q cage.
AS the spectators shifted into posi-
ton there settled over them that air
of expectancy and grave anticipation,
which precedes an occurrence of this |
sort.
Sheriff Boone had made all prelim-
mary preparations. Everything was
opened it. And then Flores sprang
forth like beast from his lair and |
made murderous attack, which near
ly resulted in the death of Deputy |
Bryant.
KNOWN.
1t is not known how, or in what
mann err, the condemned men succeeded |
in concealing the wire dsggers which
they used in their murderous attack
On the deputies today.
Last night Eugene Bruce, who was
keeping the death watch, became sus-
picious of the movements of the
prisoners and slipped up to their cell,
lnobserved. There he saw Flores
facing him, while, with his back