Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-02-14
JOSE TELlES CAPTURED.

law.
He was captured last Thursday af.
ternoon in Grant county on the Mir.
bres river. ~hle resting n couple OF
days at the house OF relative.
The trailing and capture was clev.
er piece OF work and done by A. b.
Baca OF San Marcial. assisted by some
cnw boys.
Mr.. Baca passed through the city
this morning with his prisoner en-
route to Santa Fo He was seen by
representative of The Citizen and told
OF his apprehension OF Telles and what
led up 10 his capture.
Mr.. Baca was one OF the employees
of the house of representatives.. who
was let out a few days after the repre-
sentatives went into session He had
returned TO his home at San Marcial.
when he learned that Telles, one Of
the murderers escaped from the Santa
Fe Jail. and who was being searched
for by officers. mad passed Albuquer-
que going south.
Before the capture of relles. Mr..
l IuCu Hdu reputation VI Dtlhb Ndhti
OF bad men.
| He communicated with the officers
at Santa Fe and secured a very poor
/ description of Telles and also an offer
! Of a reward for his capture. The de.
scription telegraphed Baca was not in
keeping with chat of Telles The only
one point where the description Tailed
was that relles wore white hat,
Baca struck what he thought was
the right trail just this side OF La Joya.
in the Rio Grande valley, and, al.
though several days behind the man
he wanted, he had very little trouble
in keeping trail of him. 1t was so very
plain that at times Mr.. Baca was en-.
ableo to cut across country and inter
cept 1t at another point farther on,
thus saving considerable time. The
only occasion where the trail was lost
for a single moment was when Telles
got a ride Of about fifty miles, from
near San Marcial toward Deming. The
man he rode with is said to have been
n territorial newspaper man and drove
n team of sorrel horses and was going
to ncming
Thursday afternoon last Mr.. Baca
and two other men. cowboys he had
employed To assist him and guard the
outside OF houses while he searched
them, arrived at little place near the
p1stotiice of Dwyer. on the Mimbres
river. He was sure that he was close
on to his man and was making thor
ough searches in every hamlet he
came to. At an old house he saw an
elderly lady and asked her r there was
man in the house. She said there
was not, but Baca had information
that his man was in that house. The
woman started 90 go into the house
ard he stopped her. He then told her
to call that man out Sh> did So and
Telles came TO the door. As he cam
in sight Baca pulled down on him with
his gun and up went his hands. He
was drinking a cup of coffee when he
came to the door. The cup was dashed
TO pieces on the ground.
Teles at first denied his identity and
said that his name was Duran. But
after a little talk with his captor. he
found out that he was going back "a
Santa Fe whether Telles or not He
! broke down and acknowled that he
was Telles and the man wanted. lie
Immediately became horror stricken
at the thought OF being hanged and
begged Baca to shoot him.
His Story.
Telles. as he appeared this morning
with shacSles around his wrists and
ankles, seemed resigned to his posi-.
ton He Is man of fine physique
about five feet six inches tall, weighing
probably 1865 pounds. He wore light
colored shirt, badly soiled. a gray coat
and dark blue corduroy trousers. His
shoes We're not mates and one OF them
had been slit with a knife, where his
foot had been bruised by jumping over
the Jail yard fence the night of the es.
cape. His shoes not being mates was
one of the clues followed by Mr. Baca
and which led up to his capture.
lie speaks very little English and
the reporter had to use an interpreter.
relles said that the Santa Fe blood
hounds We're up 10 them several times,
and one time they shot at the dogs,
but failed to hit them. The officers.
however. never came in sight. as IL is
supposed the dogs were too fast for
them.
He said that he PASSED through Al
buquerque either tho fifth or sixth
night after thee scape A few miles
below town he traded his rifle for a
six shooter. lie kept to the railroad
pretty near all the way down the river
He thought that he was beyond pos
sible capture and after resting a few
days at the house where he was found
he would go to the state OF Sonora.
Mexico. He claims that the old lady
at whose house he was captured is his
aunt.