The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-02-03
SHERIFF BRINGS m MAN
arrtIQEn nE MlIE

ACCUSED or MURDER.
Sheriff C. L. Ballard and Constable
jim johnson returned at GAO last
night from their auto trip to Plain
view, LOG miles, by wagon road SoItn-
east of Roswell in Chaves county, and
brought with them Tony z. Summers.
who had been given a preliminary
hearing before Justice j. H. Eubank.
of Plainview, on the charge of muir
dering Tom HARRISON, and was bound
over to the grand jury without bond.
They also brought the news of the
situation at Plainview, and. as best
they could learn, the event leading
up to the shooting.
Summers is a middle aged man.
a wife and Axe children, the oldest a
boy of nine years. He is a son-in-law
of "Old Man" Charley Marx, an old
timer in the Plainview country and
known all over the Plains. Summers
came to Plainview from Oklahoma
about three years ago and took up a
claim. HARRISON is about % years
old and has been in and around Plain
view at intervals two or three years.
he held an adjoining claim to the
| Summers place. He came from a
place in Texas about rs miles east OF
Piainview, n. NJ.
! The officers found the lower left
side of the young mans face shot of
and . hole in ais lea almost as big
as two fists. The body was buried at
Plainview yesterday, a brother of the
deceased having arrived yesterday
from 10 miles east in Texas.
So far as could be learned the Sum-
ners family are the only witnesses
70 the shooting. Summers account
of the affair is the only one obtain
able. He states the killing resulted
from a quarrel over some mesquite
roots tnat had been used as wood. He
states that his wife had burned some
wood that had been dug by HARRISON
and that the two men had ~quarrelo
about it. Summers had dug sorr
wood to replace it, but on Tuesday
morning HARRISON came to the Sum
mers dug-out and said hat Summers
had not dug enough wood. Summers
said ne would dig more. but Harbiso'
was angry and they continued their
quarrel.
The affair happened Tuesday morn
ing. Summers was in bed when Har-
bison came there at about seven o.
clock. Summers having a sick head
ache. HARRISON finally struck Summers
across the back with a chair as he Law
in bed and then, Summers says, ne,
Summers, got up and secured his shot
gun. With the shotgun he pushed
HARRISON out of the house, the latter
trying to get out his pocket-knife
meanwhile. When HARRISON was out
side the door, he picked up the axe,
Summers says and raised ii to strike
Summers when the latter raised his
shotgun and fred without taking aim.
The two men were not more than six
feet apart and the shotgun, a No. 6,
and little less than a cannon did ter
rifle havoc. Summers relates tnat
HARRISON jumped into the air, letting
the axe fall and sticking in the
ground as il fell and that the man
isicked once but made no other move
ment after being shot.
HARRISON had been blowing Afs
land, right in front of the Summers
dng-out waen he left his team stand
ing in the furrow and went to see a
boU the wood. The team stood there
from early morning until two in the
afternoon, no persons caring about in
~terfering with the property of tle
dead man until it becam necessary.
The people at Plainview made an
attempt to have Sheriff Ballard al
rest another man in connection with
tae shooting, but he declined to do
so. there being no positive evidence
against him. 1t seems that there has
been bad feeling in the neighborhood
for some time and all the people do
rot accept Summers story in its en-
tirety.
The man under arrest has some
strong friends, mona them his fath-
erin-law, "Old Man" Marx, and an eff
fort viii probably be made to get him
out on bond, Trough habeas corpus
proceedings, although nothing in that