Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-05
STORY OF HORROR ABOUT DEATH
 IF TWO

DOUGLAS, Nov. 4.-(special.)-I
 A travelling man who arrived in Douglas yesterday from Lordsburg tells the story of the burning of the calaboose of that town and the ere nation of two prisoners, and is much worked up over the case, claiming that no effort was made to save the two young men, who were little more than boys, but that they were allow ed to die like rats in trap. He is also much excited over what appears to be the callouseness of the officials in making little effort to secure an Identification of the young men. He believes that one of them was Knight of Pythias and that identifi- cation would be possible instead of the mailing of two charred bodies in one pine box and a burial out in the desert.
 According to this travelling man he arrived in Lordsburg the afternoon before the fire. He was approached by two men, fairly well dressed, and gave them what loose change he had after hearing a hard luck story. These were the two men who were after wards burned to death in the Lords burg jail.
 Story of Fire
 The travelling man was tired and tretired early, about seven o'clock that evening, and soon after he went to sleep. Shortly after eight o'clock he was awakened by shots and the blow ing of whistles. He hastily threw on some clothing and went out to see what the trouble was. He was inform cd that the jail was afire and on in- quiry he was told that there was no one in the jail, though he heard men screaming. Thinking the cries came | from people outside the building he retired and next day on going upon | the street he learned of the double tragedy. He declares that there were scores of people about the calaboose when he first awakened and that any one of them with an axe or sledge hammer could have smashed the lock and released the two prisoners who were handcuffed together in the build | ing which had no windows, the only openings being the locked door and a skylight overhead. Notwithstand- ing the fact that the door or lock could have been smashed and that there were no less than four people who had keys, this travelling man maintains that no effort was made to save them.
 Later, the day after the fire, he was again approached and asked for aid, this time by a one-legged man who wore K. of P. button. This man told him that the two men had come from Fresno to Lordsburg. That he himself had worked in a butcher shop there and one of the two men had worked in winery and was alsC a Knight of Pythias. The two men in Lordsburg had been caught st:al ing lemons from an Esspee car and had been hapdcuffed together and thrown into jail by the railroad detec tive, where they perished in the flames.
 Seeks to Identify
 Being a K. of P, he was at once interested and went to see the coro ner, who is also justice, judge and jailor. By him he was told that there was no mark on any of the clothing of either men. That they had no pa. pers or cards in their pockets, not even lead pencil, and that neither of them wore any emblem of any SO ciety. It was added that they had fired the jail and had only themselves to blame for their deaths. He was told that pine box was being made, a Jo,,hla coffin ond fbof in fbic haro