Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-05-16
LEAVES TO
BRING BACK
MURDERER
CASE AGAINST
ZEN0BI0 SANCHEZ
Fled From Home in Los Ran
choS de Albuquerque as Soon
as Indicted Capture CIeyery
Worked Up byLocaI Officers,

Sheriff Perfecto Armijo left last
night via Kennedy and Torrance for
Alamogordo where he VIII take
charge of Zenobio Sanchez, murderer
of William McComber, and return
with him to this city. As stated in
these columns Sanchez was captured
in the White mountains of Lincoln
county by Mounted Policeman w. -.
Dudley upon Information supplied by
the attaches of the local Sheriff's of
flee. He is charged with the killing
Of MCCOmber, an aged ranChman,
near Escabosa in the Monzano noun
tain country I'm this county three years
ago. The murder was one of the most
brutal and fiendish in the annals of
ierime In this section.
The capture of SANCHEZ is the re-
suit Of long and patient work On the
part of sheriff Armiio, undersherift
Heyn and their deputies who ave left
no stone unturned since they came in
to office to capture Sanchez. The
crime was committed during the in
cumbency of Sheriff T. $. Hubbell and
no attempt was made to bring the
man to justice until Mr.. Armijo came
into office.
At the time Of the murder Zenoblo
Sanchez, son of Jose Dolores Sanchez
Of Ranches de Albuquerque. and a
c~oWpunCher and bronco buster by oc-
t%CupatiOu, was herding sheep for Max
mano Gutierrez Of this county over in.
the Egc0b0sa country. near the ranch
of McComber. shortly AFTER the muir
der he returned to Albuquerque ana
was in this vicinity most of the time.
until the Hubbell regime ended when
he was indicted by the grand jury,
jointly with Natividad Gutierrez, son
of MaNimiano Gutierrez for the muir
der.
There has never been any doubt in
the minds of the people of the east
end on the county that these two men
committed the crime, Immediately
after the indictment Sanchez disap-
peared. Gutierrez was arrested and
released on bond, the district attorney
insisting that the two men must be
tried together. There has been a ru-,
NOR to the effect that the scheme was
to have Gutierrez tried first and
prove him innocent on the ground
that Sanchez committed the crime,
then arrest Sanchez and prove him in
%nocent by proving that Gutierrez, who
would be immune from further trial,
was the guilty party.
Much time, pains and money has
been spent in trying to locate san
chez, who by the limos cunning and
Watchfulneas had mus far been en-
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never stayed long in place n
changed his name with his location.
lat one time deputy sheriff Querino
Coulter spent thirty days in the Man
zanos trying in vain to find his man.
A rumor that he had been seen In
Lincoln county a year ago resulted
i'm a man being deputized to search
that county, but all in vain. At am
other time he was reported as carry
ing the mail between Lincoln and
Captain and this was found to be a
false scent. the friends of the fugi-
tive in this county losing no chance
to try and get the authorities on the
wrong track.
Finally four weeks G certain per
sons in Lincoln county wrote to The
sheriffs office asking what reward
was offered for the apprehension of
Sanchez. Undersheriff Heyn wrote
and made a proposition 70 these per-
sons and in return received Informal
ton which was at once placed in the
hands Of captain of the Mounted Po-
lice Fred Foruoff who detailed
Mounted Policeman Dudley TO go
down in the mountains and get the
man. How well Dudley succeeded
has been told in dispatches from Ala
mogordo.
Sanchez has put in his time herding
sheep and cattle and breaking horses,
a trade at which he is an adept. He
has been going under the name of
J|ustiniano Valdez of late and at the
time OF his capture was working for
a ranchman named Chavez. He has
always gone heavily armed and has
generally been on the alert, but was
taken totally by surprise by Mounted
Policeman Dudley, who effected his
arrest most cleVerly.
Previous to the murder Sanchez
also worked for a while for Jacobo
Lucero and others sand was well
Known iu this part of the county The
against him is considered q
one. Many OF the cattle which
belonged TO McCOmber We're brought
90 Albuquerque and sold here.
The sheriff yesterday received q let
Ter from Mounted Policeman Dudley
nclosiug a full face and profile pho
.ograph Of sanchez both of which
at once Identified by the sheriff.
Helu. Deputies Montoya and
and others. There is no
loubt whatever about the mans iden-
ity.
sore Nipples.
Any mother who has had expert
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