Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-09-27
Bullet Wound and Marks of
Brutal Fingers Tell Story of
FrightfuI MiStreatment at
Hands of CaptorS,
VICTIM YOUNG SCHOOL
TEACHER FROM SOUTH
Carried to Hospital Starving
and Weak from Wounds,
She is Unable to Tell Story
of Outrage.


Especial Dispatch to the Morning journal
Santa Fc. y. VI. Sept. 2s.--At
o'clock this morning Gertrude Mont
gomerN, victim Of one of the most
horrible assaults in the annals OF
crime, is believed to be dying, Every
effort is being made TO keep the un-
fortunate girl alive until She can have
an opportunity to identify the men
now believed to have committed the
assault; but ii is feared she will not
live until morning
This evening three convicts. AL
TRUSTEES of the New Mexico peniten-
tiarY, who have been employed on the
road building gang in Santa Fe cam
NOn, We're placed in solitary conflne-
ment for examination in connection
with the crime. The men are Gunder-
man, sentenced for eighteen months
for assault from D"wsOn ColfaX
county; Tom Dauer. sentenced for two
years for cattle stealing, from Eddy
county; and Pas Otero y Chavez, a
2O-year-old boy. sentenced for life
from Lincoln county for murder
These three mon have been living
in small adobe house up the Santa
Pc canyon near the convict camp,
WDGfP llleA nave DttU tHlDlON fQ IL
is believed now that they caught the
unfortunate girl while she was walk
ing up the canyon, and carried her off
into the hills, where they kept her
from Tuesday evening until SundaH
morning. when they carried her TO
the canyon and left her to her fate,
believing her near death 1t is incon-
ceiVablc that the girl could have liVed
for four days without food or shelter
and wounded. and the supposition Is
that these men kept her aliv" during
this time.
AS soon as Governor Curry was in
formed of the crime in Santa Fe can
yon this morning, he ordered the en-
tire convict force there brought TO the
penitentiary and placed in cells rms
was done Immediately and all ot the
men We're accounted Tor
The three TRUSTEES We're the only
ones who had not been constantly uh
der the eyes of the guards. They had
boon allowed TO occupy the adobe
house without guard.
Gunderman had but three months
to serve. Daucr but q few months ana
the Chavez boy had been Il truslN loi
several years. The evidence against
the three conVicts thus far is cireum
stantial If Miss Montgomery lives un-
|
able to identify them. if they are the
guilty men In ease she dies as Is
now feared. identification viii DC
moro difficult Can't Fred ForhoH,
Of the mounted police. who ordered
the men placed in solitary conhne-
ment this evening, declined 70 make
any statement to the case.
circumstances point to these con
victs as the guilty men he SAID ~
we have not none far enough with tn"
case to make anv statement. II is TO
he hoped that Miss Montgomery VIII
live If for nothing else than that 81,
NAV have an opportunity 10 identliy
hcr assailants. but the outlook tonishl
is that she will not last until morn
ing
The inexplcablc feature Of the case
now is how the young woman ioulu
her way into the canyon and why she
went there. The only explanation oi
fercd is that she walked there eloh'
attracted by the scenery.