Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-27

whose bodies were found As miles
northwest of Roswell. But there was
no sign of the missing money, and
the mystery of the double killing IL
increased. tTttf
The examination of Ross clothing
disclosed the fact that there were no
knife holes in the bosom of his shirt,
over the place where the fatal
wounds were made in his breast. This
looks as if he had barred his own
breast and stabbed himself. This puts
another difficulty in the way of those
who would make of it a fight in
which each man inflicted fatal
wounds on the other.
A story is gaining ground that Ross
was a representative of some anarch-
istic society and had been sent to kill
Kulay, who, the story goes. had been
a member of the society and had once
failed to do his duty. The officers
place no credit in this report, but it
continues to spread, perhaps because
it is interesting.
Sheriff c. L. Ballard of Chaves
county arrived in Albuquerque this
morning to secure the trunk which
kulay shipped by express to this city
before ne left Roswell. The trunk
is being held by the express company
and it will take an order of court to
secure it. Sheriff Ballard expected
that he might find something in the
trunk which would give a clue to the
double killing mystery, in case there
was a suicide pact, but will have to
wait until an order of court can be
secured.
Sheriff Ballard said: "The theory
that either Ross or Kulay were an
archists is absurd, and the supposition
that the men were killed by Mexicans
is greatly weakened by the fact that
McXicans found both bodies and re-
ported them to the authorities. The
contents of the dead mans trunk
might dvulge some secret which
would throw some light on the trag-
edy but | fear that the truth will
never be known The place where the
bodies We're found is fully twenty
miles from any settlement. The near
est place Is the headquarters sheep
camp of Fritz Brinck. Mr.. Brinck
has aided US greatly in conducting an
investigation of the killings.
Ross has relatives in st. Louis, but
none of them has come to investigate
his death. probably because they are
In moderate circumstances and can
not afford it. Ross had been in Ros-
well only a short time and Kulay had
been there but little while. Kulay
had been in the United States only
four years.
"As 1t stands now there doesn't
seem to be the slightest clue on whicn
70 base a motive for the crimes and
while the bodies themselves indicate
IN a measure how death came to the
two men, there are 50 many conflict
ing details about both that il is hard
to establish a solution of the mys-
terry"
Fritz Brinck, who helped the Off
GERS TO investigate, is quite well
known by the earlier settlers Of Al
buquerque. Fourteen years ago he
was tried and acquitted in Bernalilo
county Of the killing of a man by the
name of Silva, who was shot and
killed in Tijeras canyon, twenty miles
east of the city silva mad a small
reservoir in the canyon and Brinck
was driving sheep through the can
yon to Albuquerque. Some of the
animals went to Silya's reservoir to
drink, and Silva shot them. 1t is also
said that Silva shot at Brlnck. The
latter returned the fire and Silva
was killed.