The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-09-03


outstretched aud still holding the Win
chester. The ball passed through
Clark's left arm. grazed the chest, and
then followed course penetrating the
right shoulder. Almost simultaneously
Putnam fired one shot which entered the
body of Clarke. lie fred only after see.
ing the danger 10 which Beal was ex.
posed. Clark fell, and there was no
more shooting so far as the tragedy
is concerned. but on the road Beal s
5000 aut tomatic went OF! accidentally,
which accounts for the fourth shot fir.
ed. that being all that there il any evi.
dence of having been heard on that oc.
casion.
Former Justice of the Peace Soren.
sou. who had been notified prior TO
this that he would have 10 resign or
proceedings would be filed against him
for malifeasance in office, sent in his
resignation, although he had refused
to do so before, and il was received by
telegraph soon after the tragedy. Others
who had held commissions as deputy
sherifis in Mogoilou had their commits.
sions revoked. Charles Clark had at
one time been commissioned as u depu.
and Day, his commission with others
were cancelled on the Goth Of August
as disclosed by the records prior to the
shooting.
! william Day, who il now, and was
incarcerated in the county JUL here
at "A time before the killing, made n
statement in which he said the bad
element at Mogollon had threatened
serious injury al least to the members
of the mounted police il they were
called in tn 'run that camp and that
they did not propose to have them come
there and close them up Information
has been received from other sources
which shows that the feeling in Mogol
Ion against the investigation of the
killing of Jose Dominique was strongly
resented, although few of the citizens
did go out on horseback looking for III,
fugitives; aud this resentment was Iii
rected particularly against the mount
ed police. II is also claimed by recent
visitors to the camp that there was q
sentiment against the sheriff = departe
ment. Within the past few weeks con
ditiOns at and near Mogollon have beer
anything but peaceable, there having oc
cured one robbery, two hold.ups an,
the killing OF Jose Dominguez befor,
this shooting. Taking into consideration
the population of Mogollon, this is a ba,
indication. A party who is said Il
have been near the scene of the kill
ing of Charles Clark states that Clarl
fred the fist shot, aud this statemen
is cOrroborated. Officers and others wh'
have been in Mogollon since the kill
ing are emphatic in their statemen
that Beal aud Putnam did what an!
other officers would have done under lik
circumstances. That Clark was no
such peaceful and desirable either
has been attested to by William Da!
and Estes, who have made statement
regarding him and his conduct befor
his demise, and they claim TO hav,
known him pretty we'll having bee
frequent visitors at the saloon, joininl
in numerous poker games with ClarJ
night after night. It il claimed tina
there are twenty-five or thirty peopl
anxious TO appear against Beal and Put
man as witnesses, although there wer
only two witnesses to the tragedy out
side of the principals. This anxiety,
J In said Ia nm inaication of the desir