The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-07
Stage Coach Driver Murdered From
Ambush and His AssaiIants
Escape With the
Booty.
HORSES
Foam Flecked Animals Dash Into
Town and Thus Give the
Alarm to the
Citizens.

lGate City Leased Wire Service
SILVER CITY, N. NJ, Aug. Cup
In the Mongollan mountains near here
half q score of heavily armed posses,
composed of miners and mounted
rangers, tonight are close upon the
heels OF the two robbers who early to-
day shot from ambush and killed Jose
Dominiquez, driver of Marriot's stages
and fled with sle twelve bars of gold
and silver bullion valued at $4,000.
Late reports from the scene of the
man hunt indicated that the hunters
had taken the trail of the bandits and
that the latter we're being run to
cover and that their capture was
momentarily expected
That there will De fight when the
robbers are cornered, no one doubts.
The robbery and more especially
the shooting down of the stage driv-
er, has aroused the miners In the
mountains as has nothing in years and
the robbers who are believed to be
Mexicans, know that they will be
given summary justice If they are ever
taken alive The two men are known
to be heavily armed.
Few expect that the posses will
take any prisoners. The fact that all
the bullion taken by the robbers,
eight gold and four silver bars, has
been found and returned to It's own
ers has not altered the determination
of the miners to shoot to kill.
In the Confident Divide, three miles
from Mongollan, which the stage
reached at 2 a, M. two bandits wait
Ing In ambush, fired on Dominiquez
without warning. and he fell into the
road dead The robbers evidently lost
no time and after a hasty examination
of their booty, threw four bars of sal
yer bullion in the road beside Domin-
iquez' body, retaining eight gold bars.
Then they mounted the drivers seat
and drove deeper into the mountains.
AT point several miles distant, they
evidently dismounted, took out the
gold bullion and abandoned the stage,
after starting the horses at hard
gallop toward Glenwood.
Two hours overdue, the horses
covered with foam. galloped into
Glenwood at the top OF their speed
dragging the driverless stage behind
them. The express packages and
lion was gone
"a tAttlC ldbCT dL MOHSOlldu
and Glenwood were notified and with
in half hour dozen posses were
pursuing into the mountains. The
posses found Dominiquez' body ly
ing in the road in Confident Divide
and nearby in a clump of weeds found
the bars of snver bullion abandoned
by the robbers. Dominiquez had two
wounds through the breast and had
evidently been instantly killed
At late hour the rangers and min
ers struck a fresh trail made by two
men and were said to be close to the
desperadoes. The two robbers are be
lieved to be two MeXicans who have
been seen recently in the mountains
near the Confident Divide.
The stage company offered a reward
of $500 for the capture of the two
men. The government will also offel
reward
Of the bullion taken by the robbers
seven bars belonged to the Socorrt
Mining Company and five bars to The
Ernestine Mining Co. 1t was beint
sent to Silver City for shipment.
The posses in the mountains tonigh
sent to Mongollan and Glenwood TO
torches with which to hight the wa.
and continue their hunt all night. Th'
federal post Office authorities als'
took a hand in the pursuit tonight AM
reports received shortly before mid
night indicate that the robbers wer
riding in desperate haste through tn
passes with the hunters not far be
hind.
The Moagollan mountains ar
known as the 'Bad Lands" of ,Ney
Mexico and the trail in many place
is difficult to follow, owing to tn
dense underbrush and heavy roc
formation.
1t is believed the robbers who fis
ured in today's holdup are the sam
men who held up the Mongollan stag
ten days ago at almost the same spo
On that occasion, two masked me
compelled the women passengers t
dismount, hand over 5000 In none
and jewels and partially disrobe.