Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-03
MURDERERS AND HOLO-UPS.
The Frontier Doings Of a Small Band
Of Desperadoes.
STORY As TOLD THE CITIZEN.

late in the afternoon Sam and Bill
Martin and Cherokee Bill, former Col
orado and Indian Territory COW boys,
who but recently acquired the fame
of outlawry, rode into the little town
Of Carolton, Colo, OF the line of the
Santa Fe railway, about twelve miles
cast of Lamar. They hitched their
horses and proceeded to hold up and
rob the postofice. They succeeded
admirably, and without a hitch in the
proceedings appropriated all the cash
on hand, amounting to $62.12. Seem
inly satisfied with the little money Sc
cured, they started, horseback, across
the corner of Kansas toward No Mans
Land.
The robbery occurred about 6 o'clock
and by 9 O'Clock that evening Sheriff
Frank Tate of Trinidad and two depu-
ties were on the trail. The night was
very clear and the officers had very
little trouble in keeping in sight. Three
hours after daybreak the first morning
the officers came up with the rob-
bers, and a running fight followed. In
the skirmish which lasted for more
than an hour Sheriff Tate was wound
| cd and one of his deputies had a horse
shot from under him.
Posses were organized at Trinidad,
| Los Animos and Lamar, and the hunt
| was taken up in earnest. A posse
| composed of deputy United States mar
| shals and postoffice inspectors again
| came up on the highwaymen in the
country known as the Cedars in the
No Mans Land. A fight took place
in which five horses, all belonging to
, the outlaws, were killed and Cherokee
Bill was captured. His capture was
made possible by his horse being shot
from under him. In the fall he was in
jured so badly hat it was useless fol-
him to take to the brush, as was then
necessary, all the horses having been
killed. The Martin brothers took to
the woods and again escaped, evadine
the officers even in close quarters.
They proceeded south in No Mans
Land, where they surprised some
Campers and stole a team of mules.
About the middle of January a post
Office inspector and a couple Of COW
boys met with and engaged the Mar
tins in a running fight, but to no con
sequence but the killing of one horse.
January 80 the Martins appeared in
the neighborhood bordering between
No Mans Land and Oklahoma, and
robbed the railway station of NARROW
J on the Rock Island road. Before this
robbery they had been Joined by a
man by the name of Clarence Sum
mons, a cowboy and bad a The
three men walked into the station and
demanded Agent Rose to hold up his
hands. The demand was accompanied
by each of the outlaws pointing an
ugly looking gun at the agents head
The interesting part of this hold VI
was that a carload of dynamite was
stored in the depot at the time, and
had any of the robbers fired a shot
while they were pointing their guns
at Rose on either the right or left OF
him the ball would have struck this
dynamite. Agent Rose thought o.
this terrible danger. 1t is needless tt
say that he was badly frightened.
The robbers took what little money
there was in the station Golfers and
taking the frightened agent about
half a mile from the railroad, stood
him on a bank, saying: Don't NOV
until We whistle. If you do you will
be shot" The ruseful miscreants dis
appeared in the darkness. Rose stood
there until he was nearly frozen ant
decided that he would just as soon bt
shot as to freeze to death. and re
turned to the depot. On the night o.
March 2 they robbed the station house
at Hennesy, o. T., and killed the nigh
Waterman in cold blood. United
States Marshal Fassett OF Oklahoma
organized a posse. Two fights follow
ed in which one deputy and severa
torses were killed. The robbers stol'
a team of horses Of the father o
Clarence Summers and were last hear'
Of on the old Fort ~Cantonement trai
headed up the Canadian river. TIL,
officers are in pursuit and it is know
that the fleeing robbers are coming
} toward New Mexico.
Il 1t will be noted that in this success
! sion of battles more than a dozel
horses were killed.
> A lazy liver makes a lazy man. Bul