Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-03-27
kIDNAPERS ON WAY TO
JAIL IN Las VEGAS
Especial Correspondence 10 Morning Journal

East Las Vegas, n. NJ, March GO
According TO accounts OF the kidnap
ping which have reached Las Vegas
the affair Gems 10 have had some
thing OF the flavor OF the Wild west ol
oldcn days. The @ Of the AZ
lair given by the Las NeRas Optic. oh.
tanned ffrffff reports hf d1fEiit IN IRON
-y.o.~~..c-4sss = NJ ca.Se., 4::s.s a,. &c."
Francisco Calletano. a native Of old
Mexico. with negro blood Ia his veins
is dead, and Alfredo MaeH, a hall
breed, Is being brought 10 LaH Ncsai
Jan, painfully wounded. ~ the result
Of trying 20 abduct a young Mexi'
ran gin ana force here to marry cal.
ictano
IL seems that Mrs simon Garcia
ana pretty daughter are Keeping
house FOR William Boylan at his ranch
on the la Garita stream near ltl
CucrN0, about sixty-fiye miles south
east Of Las Vegas.
The other morning Calletano and
Macs drove up to the house on Tho
ituNIlu ranch and demanded That the
pretty daughter get ia a wagon near
iN Nld accompany them t. a place
whore her father was employed. Ia an
rnaeHvor to gain his consent to a
marriage that was against her own
wishes. The girl protested against
getting into the wuHun and going
with the men Ia see her father. hut
she was coercrd into doin~ so. being
thrust Into the wagon bed aud driven
or M a lively rate
one recount received ia Las YcFae
states that William Boy1an was not at
home when the abduction Of the girl
occurred, while another report has II
that he was at home ana pulled
down on the men in a futile attempt
20 Illustrate their Intentions
fHIB vU4Aat4aetf II .lIaft44 aRLI IT,
Put a whig to their horses 20 see the
father Of the thoroughly fright
cnod girl WhO was securely held on a
wagon sent hv one Of the fellows. her
mother, who saw them departing,
drove 80 The house Of the justice OF
the nracc ~ Unit precinct aud report
ga tu the alcalde the ~hiRh-hHndett out
rug that had already been porpctra-
ted on her daughter, also that she
feared TINT even her daughters life
might be In Jeopardy in the hands al
such d%Aredcvils who would resort 10
almost any crime IN the calendar To
accomplish their hellisil purpose.
Justice Of the Pence Jose Teodoro
Dominucz was not long IN summon
ing q posse to pursue and either cap
turc or XIII the villains who stole the
girl from "a home ia which she was
mdustriously for an honest
livelihood, being assisted at intervals
by her mother.
Warrants for the arrest of tho two
were placed IN the hands of An
tonic chavez and the posse. eompos
"a of Simon Gnna, Agapito Garcia,
conception Dominique. dose S, fto-
1iero and Fabian ftomcrio.
The men started IN hot pursuit of
ne girl ana her abductors. Arriving
a the Ilace where the father was
'mplpycd they found her safely IN
Keeping, tho request for the pro-
lDscd marriage having been pcremp-
nriaiy refused.
Pursuit Of C%alletaun and Macs was
Continued ana they were oyortakcn
~ Antonio Chavez ana party about 3
clock IN the afternoon near the
nnch of Fabian Romero. ,
They were called upon 60 sirron-
which they refused 10 do. he g
oaths, also replying TO his de- Il
land with shots from their guns.
luckily no n was hit. though cha ;