Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-17
Won. STIGER
Met Death !. Fighting With
Worthless Guns Supplied
by Government

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Will Freede sends the following clip
ping from the Douglas, Arizona, Dis
patch of March 9, giving another &C
count of the murder of A. Won
Steiger:
Concerning the reported murder of
German nobleman by Yaquis' or
Mexicans in the district south of
Guaymas, dispatch from Tucson to
the Los Angeles Examiner says:
Mrs. Won steiger, wife of Baron
Alfred L. Won Steiger of Wilton,
North Dakota, arrived this evening
from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, and
tells a sad story of the murder of her
husband by Yaquis or Mexicans on
February Is. Baron Won Steiger and
party, James Norton Of Sonora Fred
Langunberger of San Francisco, leav-
ing his wife at Hermosillo, went to
visit gold mine beyond Alamos,
Sonora. They carried a letter from
General Torres to the comman lant at
Ures to furnish the party with a
military escort.
When they arrived at Ures, the
comamndant detained them two days
and then said he could not furnish an
escort. Meantime, troop of Mex
leans came in with a lot of captive
Yaquis. Baron Won Steiger asked for
an escort from these troops. They
said that they would escort him
through the mountain pass, but there
was no wagon road and the party
hired two mounted Mexican guards
The Project of Ures furnished them
with needle rifles. The party left on the
morning of the 26th. A squad of
Mexican troops went through the
mountain trail by a short cut for
Alamos.
When the Baron's party wera within
two miles Of Alamos, they were at
tackled by what was supposed TO be a
body of Yaqui Indians. The Mexican
guards made a stand, but it was dis
covered that their guns were worth
less, they had no needles. They fed.
One wagon was looted, and the mules
shot. The driver jumped from the
wagon and also fed to Alamos, leav-
ing the three Americans to make the
fight. The Baron leaped out of the
: wagon, rifle in hand, aiming at near.
by robber, when he was shot through
the forehead, dying instantly
Lungunberger shot down one of the
attacking party and Norton emptied
' his revolver among them, receiving a
blow on the back of the head. He
fell and was overcome. He drew a
: crucifix from his bosom and held il
: up, claiming protection under the
; cross, which was respected, but the
: robbers demanded his money. He
answered that he had none. They
threatened that if it was found on
him they would rip ont his bowels
e for lying. Norton wore a wooden leg
He took $500 from the foot of the
same and delivered it to them. He
was stripped, except his overalls, then
set free. Meantime his partner es-
, capped through the uDderhrush
The robbers stripped the baron's
5 body of all clothing and several hun
dred dollars. Soon thereafter a rescu.
ing party from Alamos arrived, taking
the body Of the baron to Ures. where
it was buried with Catholic rites. The
guards, returning to Ures, complained
that the guns were useless, as they
: had no needles. The commandant
laughingly remarked: eve knew
that when you took them"
All this time Mrs. Won Steieer was
at Hermosillo. On the 26th she heard
2 rumor, through the .Banco de
: Sonora, of a fight and that her hus.
J band had been wounded. Sue made
efforts to secure surgeon and team
to go to the scene of action, but with
5 out avail. Then she sought for
, definite information. Everything was
suppressed. She tried to get an in
: terview with General Torres but
: failed The first definite news was a
, cablegram from her husbands
brother. Baron Louis Won Steiger,
president of the Dresden bank, Frank
: fort-on-the-Main, that money was at
the Baneo de Sonora to care for his
: brothers remains.
, Then she learned fer the first time
her husband was murdered and
buried. She declares her belief that
it was not Yaquis, but Mexicans who
murdered her husband Such, she
says. is the belief of many Americans
in Hermosillo.