Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-28

Sheriff Baca Tells Of Stoney Balls
Crime at BaIsn.
WORKED FOR FATHER or GIRL.

Sheriff Carlos Baca. of Valencia
county. passed through the city this
morning en- route to Santa Fe, where
he will be a spectator in the Legislative
assembly a few days.
1t was Sheriff Baca hat rescued
Stoney Ball, the negro charged with
having committed several dastardly
crimes in this city and other places,
from a furious but not a determined
mob at Belen yesterday.
The sheriff was seen at the depot
and told the following story about the
exciting affair.
He first received ews of Stoney
Balls assault at Belen about IL
o'clock yesterday morning. Taking
with him a couple of deputies, he went
to the scene with all haste, arriving
there about 2:30 o'clock in, the after
noon He found Stoney Ball in the
clutches Of a mob of men and boys.
The negro was tied with ropes, both
hands and feet. His leg was broken
from q revolver shot and herwas badly
bruised and beaten about the face and
lead. ~.
r Sheriff Baca and his men took Ball
in their buggy and Immediately re-
1Kurned to hos Lunas, where the pris-
oper was placed in jail and under
guard. But, the last p%recaution for
his safe keeping was unnecessary, as
1t would be impossible for him to es-
cape with the broken limb. Balls in
~Ijuries have received medical attention.
r How II All Happened.
+ Stoney Ball disappeared from this
city last Friday night and all efforts
of the police could not locate him. Fri.
fday afternoon he got after his wife
with a razor and made her jump out of
Ia two-story window, taking window
sash, screen and glass, to the ground.
Fortunately nothing serious came Of
the fall, his wife only receiving a few
bruises from her experience. That was
much better than being carved to
pieces by an angry husband. The po-
lice found out about the affair, and
when they went to look for Stoney he
was gone.
He went to Belen and took lodging
with Pedicantro Baca, who runs a
hotel at the valley town. and who is
father of the girl ravished. The girl is
about IA years of age and helps in the
dining room. 1t vas while stopping at
this hotel for a couple of days that the
negro first saw her. Between s and 8
O'Clock of the morning of the crime,
the girl went to school. Instead of
going around by the road, she took a
short cut by a path through the brush.
The negro followed her and in the
most obscure spot, caught hold of her,
and began licking her. as the girl said.
Apparently he become frightened at
her screams and ran away before he
had fully accomplished his purposes.
The girl returned 10 the house and told
her father. Mr.. Baca Immediately or
ganiZed a mob of neighbors and went
in pursuit of the negro.
Balls direction of escape led down
the river and not until some eight
miles below the town was he over.
taken. He was completely exhausted.
The shot that crippled him was fired
by an excited native, who came upon
the negro in the brush. The native
emptied his six-shooter at the negro
at a very few PAGES, but only n shot
took effect. The negro was taken back
to Belen and before a justice of the
peace. The girl identified Stoney Ball
by describing him as having a gold
tooth. 1t was just about the time OF
the close of the trial that Sheriff Baca
appeared and took the prisoner in
charge.
Colored People Indignant.
The colored people of Albuquerque
do not uphold Stoney Ball in his Grim
inal career. They have had their indig
nations aroused time and time AGAR
at the inhuman treatment of his wife
but the people with whom he formerly
associated when he bore a good repu
~tation, gave him every consideration
[ thinking he would get owe his evi
ways. Albuquerque has an intelligen
!, and respectable class of colored people
who are not to be judged by one with
out any regard for human life.