Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-21
Carl VOgeI Brings Down Rup-
ertO Gonzales Near CabezOn
DEAD MAN MADE BUSINESS
OF STEALING LIVE STOCK
Escaped From Penitentiary Last April
--Ex-Convict Drops Dead on Edge
ObPrecipice After Furious Fight.


Ruperto Gonzales, sent up to the
penitentary from San Miguel county
for cattle stealing and who escaped
from the territorial prison at Santa
Fe the 29th day of last April, was shot
and instantly killed at s o'clock We'd
nesday night by Carl Vogel, of Ca
beZon, a member of the posse which
had been chasing him for some days
! under the direction of Captain of the
Mounted Police Fred Fornoff.
Mr.. Fornoff and Mr.. Vogel arrived
| in the city yesterday, the former leav-
ing again for Santa Fe last night.
Gonzales was shot through the left
breast, the bullet going clear through
! his body and coming out on the right
side. He was shot while in a hand
to-hand struggle with Vogel on the
| brink of a precipitouS arroyo nearly
thirty feet deep. when he fell his
head was hanging over the edge Of
| the arroyo. He also had a bullet
wound in the arm only few days old.
I The shooting of Gonzales was the
elimination of one of the most excit-
ing man hunts that ever occurred in
New Mexico.
Some weeks ago Mounted Police
man Gomez was sent into Sandoval
county to capture Gonzales, who WAS
known to have been making his head
quarters there. Gomez was unable TO
locate him. Lieutenant Ciprlano Baca
| then Vainly searched the mountains and
sand hills for sign of the desperadO
| but after a long search gave Ii up.
Deputy Sheriff Elcario Montoya, OF
this city, also spent considerable time
looking for Gonzales, but there was
nothing doing. While further prepar-
ations were taken to round him up
Gonzales got ready to "hit the tral."
and stole team of horses belonging
to Hippolito Montoya, who lives In the
southern part of Albuquerque. The
horses were stolen twenty miles this
side of Cabezon. Hippolito Montoyl,
who is an expert scout and trailer.
took up the trail of Gonzales and fol-
7 lowed the horse thief to Cabezon. AT
Cabezon he enlisted the services of
Sheriff Emiliano Sandoval of Sando-
val county and a ranchman named
Francisco Montoya, who had also suf-
fered at the hands OF the outlaw. They
patiently followed the trail of Con
! Zales until a week ago last Wednes-
day night. During that night they
passed Gonzales without knowing II,
as the outlaw had stolen off to the
side of the road and made his camp.
some distance farther on. They slept
in the open air and as the awoke in
the morning just at daylight they saw
Gonzales coming down the road riding
one horse and with the stolen horses
hitched to a four-horse wagon. The
officers of the law were across lit
tie arroyo from the unsuspecting Con-
zales us he approached when they
opened fire on him. lie left the
horse and wagon and bolted for the
tall timber with bullets whistling
about his ears. Hippollto Montoya
secured his horses and left the party.
On the next Saturday evening Sheriff
Sandoval and John Clark took the
trail again with a determination "a
get the ex-convlct or know the reason
why. They rode along until they
reached, the next day the Laguna de
Leon or Lake of the Lion" Here in
front of an abandoned house they
saw another wagon standing, which
4 was recognized as belonging to Con
zales. After a little scouting around
it was discovered that the fugitive had
left his wife in the wagon at the
empty house While he went In search
of water.
Gonzales went Off a mile or more
and did not return for probably half
an hour. Meanwhile the sheriff and
Clark, who had again been reinforced
by Francisco Montoya and Carl Vogel,
hid behind rocks near the house and
lay in wait for the returning man.
When their quarry was within 900
= yards of the house some one got In a
hurry and opened fire. Again Gonzal-
es succeeded in lodging the flying
messengers of death and when the flu
sllade was over he was nowhere In
2 sight The baffled officers captured
/, his wife and the rifle which Con-
, zales had left in the house. This was
, on Sunday night on Monday hast
r Captain Fred Fornoff Of the mounted
? police accompanied by julius Myers
D of the force. and by Hippolito Mon
I toya, appeared on the scene and took
8 up again the trail OF Gonzales. IL
= was decided to send the woman back
+ to Cabezon as II was believed the hunt
ed man would not leave the country
: without her. SO Wednesday Carl Vo-
j gel was sent back toward Cabezon
J. In charge of the woman. When he
l. got within ten miles of Cabezon Vogel
e left the woman, telling her to go on
n to the village while he started over
Q to his sheep camps to attend TO busi-
d ness there. Half an hour later, Just
q at dusk, Fornoff and his companions
a while riding along the road, were met
: by the returning Vogel, who said that
he had met and killed Gonzales.
The body of the outlaw was buried
n and the chase was over.
Vogel says II was a question of lif'
1 or death with him.
1T was give and take" said Voge
Ito the Morning Journal last night. :"
, met Gonzales on the road and at ono,
. recognized him, covering him with m!
I rifle and ordering him to throw up hi
I hands. He didn't do so but rushed \
: ME and grabbed my rifle. II was righ
= pn the edge OF deep arroyo, fourtee
= niles from Cahezon. He fought lik
i % Wild man and was endeavoring I
tist my rifle out OF my hand and 4