Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-06-15
KILLING At
CARR|zOzO
Night Watchman
Fatally Wounds
Railroader
.AssA|LANT IS ARRESTED
Governor Curry One of the
First to Reach Scene of
Shooting.
Special to the New Mexican.

CarriZoZo, n. NJ, June l5.-Two
employees of the Ell Paso and South
western Railway, on Sunday evening
bought tickets for Captain and went
to sleep in the waiting room at the
depot. Railroad Night Watchman
Isaac Herrin in making his rounds
awakened them and demanded to
know their business. The men re-
fused to obey the order to leave the
depot, and Herrin drawing a revolver
shot and killed one of them, William
Harte, by name. Herrin was given a
preliminary hearing at Carrizozo last
evening.
Governor Curry has ordered rig
i'd investigation Of the affair, especial
ly of the question where the men
had obtained the strong drink on
Sunday. 1t is the Governors inten-
ton to insist that district attorneys
enforce rigidly all laws, including
those on Sunday closing and the sale
of liquors to minors.
Mounted Policeman Sent to Carrizozo.
Mounted Policeman w. E. Dudley
of Alamogordo, has been dispatched
| to the scene of the killing. Governor
Curry was in the town when the kill
ing took place and was one of the
first to reach the depot after the
shooting. His son, Charles Curry
and his Filipino servant, lingo Daza,
were eye witnesses of the murder. 1t
! seems that the men in the depot
were drunk and struck at the night
watchman with bottle, infiicting a
scalp wound. The watchman dis
charged the first shot into the floor
to frighten the drunken men but
without avail and as these closed up
on him he fired the revolver, the bull
let entering the victims abdomen,
mortally wounding him. Herrin was
a special mounted policeman and was
only recently appointed. Harte and
! his companions were railroaders, SO
| it is reported.
Another Version.
| The FL Paso Herald prints the fol-
! lowing account of the shooting:
"News was received here this
morning to the effect that William
Hart, pipe line man working at
Carrizozo was shot and fatally injured
by Night Watchman Herrin. in quar-
rel which took place in the waiting
room of the depot last night.
Hart was in company with four
other pipe line men who had tickets
for Coyote and it is claimed the four
were raising an undue disturbance
when the night watchman interfered.
"Herrin fired three shots into the
floor to frighten the men but, in.
stead they declared they would com
pei him to eat his gun, and the five
closed in on him at once A fierce
struggle ensued, and, although Herrin
was held firmly, he succeeded in
{ pulling the trigger, firing two shots
into Hart's body, either of which will
prove fatal.
"On seeing that their comrade was
wounded, the other four scattered,
but all were captured and placed in
jail later in the night.
Hart was taken to the company
hospital at Alamogordo, where it is
said he has no chance for recovery.
"Herrin was arrested but released
on bail this morning.
Governor Curry appeared on the
scene just five minutes after the
shooting and, although he took no
part or gave no directions as to the
disposition of the men, he asked sew.
eral questions and obtained a full ac.
count of the proceedings from eye
witnesses"