Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-05-20
Finding of Mangled Remains
April s Is No Longer
a Mystery.
MAN FOUND WHO
WITNESSED KILLING
Marguerite BdnueldS Jumped
From Box Car in Front of
Moving Train

The mystery of the Barr hill trag
edy of April is solved.
Marguerite Banuelas was not muir
dered and placed on the track by
thugs, who committed murder for the
purpose of robbery and then placed
the body on the railroad track to OBJ
literate the evidence of their crime
as was the theory of the police i'm
mediately after the killing. but he
was the victim of his own fallacy.
He jumped to his death.
With another man, one Felix
Placesneia, Banuelas was on his way
from Jerome. Ariz., where he had
been working in a mine, to Albu-
Querque. On reaching here it was
the intention of the men to buy tick
cts to Ell Paso and then go to their
home at Zacateco, Mexico, This story
is told by Placesneia He and Ba-
nuelas had walked and rode on
freight trains from Jerome to Barr
station, which place they reached the
night that Banuelas lost his life on
freight train, of which Conductor
Thomas was in charge.
The freight on which they were
riding took the siding at Barr to let
a passenger train pass. According to
Placesneia, when the freight stopped
he and Benuelas thought that some
thing was wrong, and fearing being
caught stealing a ride, they rushed
from their side-door sleeper. Pla-
cesneia was the first to jump. He
reached the ground safely. When
Banuelas jumped, he slipped as he
left the box car and fell headlong
on the main line track. His head
struck one of the rails and the man
was stunned, and before his compan-
ion realized what had happened the
passenger bore down upon the pros
trate body. The story of the gath
eriug of the shattered fragments of
the body and the burying of one leg,
which was carried quarter of mile
from the scene, In a cemetery several
miles distant from the grave of the
main part of the body, is still fresh in
the minds of the public.
Looked Like Foul Play.
When the engineer on the train
saw the body it was too late for him
to stop, and when he succeeded in
stopping his train, some 200 feet be-
yOnd, the body had been mangled be-
yOnd recognition. On account of the
condition of the body it was placed
u one side and the information
brought to this city.
After the train left Barr Placesneia
in looking for Banuelas, saw the
mangled body, and recognizing it as
few minutes after the tragedy three
other MeXicans appeared on the
scene and looked at the body. These
men We're afterward arrested and
brought to this city for investigation
They We're suspected of having muir
dered Banuelas and then placing his
body on the track to hide their crime
This they stoutly denied. After be-
ing held in the police station hold
over. they We're transferred to the
county jail, but were given their lib
erty after having been in custody a
week.
The clue on which the local police
hoped to incriminate the Mexicans
was the information which they re-
ceived from the police at Jerome
Ariz.. that Banuelas, Placesneia and
the three other laborers left there the
same day; and also that Banuelas
carried with him S65, which had been
entrusted to him to give to a Mrs.
Juan Cabrades, by her husband in
Jerome Mrs Cabrades lived at the
same place the two men did in Mex
leo.
When the bodoy was brought to
this city by Police Judge George
Craig and Undertaken F. II. Strong
all that was found on it was several
papers stating the name of the de-
ceased and a five cent piece. The
three MeXicans when arrested had
considerable money on their persons
but later proved that the money had
been paid them for working i'm the
mines near Jerome.
After the three men had been re-
leased Chief of Police Thomas McMil-
lin received word from a friend of
Placesneia, who said that Placesneia
told him all about the accident and
how ii occurred. Acting upon this
advice, Chief McMllm wrote ia
Juchipila, Mexico, but TO date he has
not received an answer.
In talking about the matter last
week. Chief McMiUin said.
I'VE are convinced that Banuelas
jumped from the car and struck his
head. rendering himself senseless or
unconscious, ana while I'm that condl-
ton the train ran over him a.
course. We would like to hear T:s..t
the Mexican, to learn his story but
the mystery is solved as far the
albuquerque police are concerned"