Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-08-16
POSSE VS.. ROBBERS.
Full Particulars Of HoIdup and Bat
r. . tie with D~esperadoes.
Jaw or RoBBtR SHOT OFF.

On Monday The citizen published a
special dispatch. dated firm Socorro,
| giving a few details about the hold up
and rof.bery of a mining company's
| store at Graham and the subsequent
| pursui, Of the robbers by Deputy Sher-
ir w. X. Foster and posse, in which one
o. the robbers vas hot and killed. The
particulars Of the hold up and the ex-
citing battle with the robbers are pub
lished below: T. T S.
Graham. n. NJ, Aug. 1.-THE store
OF the Helenl Mining company here was
the scene Of a daring hold-up Thursday
evening, conducted by three men whose
Identity Is unknown at this time.
ut was ABOUT $3.50 O'Clock when three
men. dressed In cowboy garb, rode hur-
riedly up to the store OF the Helen Min
ing company and dismounted. II was
uotfced that they were heavily armed
with wincheste~ and six sfooterse One
OF the men was left to hold the horses.
while the other two walked into the
store for the ostensibte purpose OF max
ingspurchasss. 4. Thomasi Snucky, OF Sill
v,r City. was sitting in front OF the
store building at the time. and his at
t%entiof wss attracted no the actions Of
the man outside who, after his COM
panions had gone IN. commenced 20
maize p~reparations looking 70 a hurried
departure. The reins of the animals
were F~hrownsup over their frecks and
lac busted himself with Tightening the
fcinchesessid seeing thru the winehesters
were arranged 80 as to be easily with
| drawn from their scabbards. Mr..
knucky tried to engage the man In
cpyFsstion. butgw was RDsweeed only in
monosy1lables. Feeling that matters
| were not as they should be, Mr.. Knucky
taked around and entered the back
door. to see what the other two men
were doing. and n possible 10 corumuni-
cate his suspicious 90 the clerks.
In the meantime, the two men had
each purchased a pair OF boots, some
underclothing and cartridges. They
put on the boots and n Of them went
out to the man remaining with the
horses and asked him for some money
with which TO pay for the purchase.
This WAS produced and the none paid,
after which both walked out OF the front
door. Mr.. Knucky had just started to
communicate his fears. when the men
again entered the store and as they did
so. Mr.. Knucky walked out OF the back
door and secreted himself behind some
ROCKS having considerable money on
his person and now feeling certain that
trouble was bou to ensue The rob
be1s. az they Afterwards proved to be,
came on back TO the rear door and look
ed about In an endeayor- to see what
had become OF MIR. Knucky, but not
seeing him In the course OF a few min
vtes, walked back into the ROOM, and
made some few remarks In order 10 at
tract the attention OF the two clerks,
and those In the store, consisting OF
three Americans and two Cinnamon.
This done, quick as fash. they pulled
their six-shouters and ordered everyone
u stand In line, which was obeyed
without parIey.
one of the robbers then covered those
present, while the other proceeded to
the big safe containing the funds of the
store and the moneys OF the postofice,
which Is paititioned of from the store
proper, lille spent some little time riff
ing the registered mail and occurring
what money was In the safe, after
which he picked up ~ much jewelry
and az many revolvera an he could
carry ana with a word Of command 70
h,s co-rrnoa,ion hotb ram ~ ,ha Sront
dear An thr,ee tnen. tumned ON their
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Graham, N. NJ Aug. l2.-After the
hold-un of uhe store al Graham. the
three robbens rode away in the direc-
ton of Alma. A Telephone message
was at once sent to Deputy Sheriff Eos
ter at Mogollon. who replied that he
would starr In pursuit at once with o
POSSE, and In the meantime arrange