Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-04-17
BRONCO BILL
IS At LARGE
Train Robber and Murderer
and Ex-Cow Boy Escaped
Last Night
ANOTHER CONVICT OUT TOO
But Fall From Wall Shocks Him
And He Returns to Peniten-
tiary.
Bronco Bill is at large.

That noted murderer, train robber.
crack shot, former COW boy of Grant
county and desperate, with a more
thrilling history lhan Diamond Dick
or some Of the other heroes of the
dime novel library, and whose face
has the half amused smile that won't
come off, made his escape from the
penitentiary some time last night and
in thoroughly thrilling manner,
worthy of the man and his career.
Bronco Bill, whose real name is
William Walters and whose number
is 1882, was serving a life sentence
for murder and what not, and had
been in the penitentiary for the past
eleven years. He was a trustie. and it
is said at the time of his escape was
at the hospital though it seems GER
tain that he was not very i'll man un-
less, perhaps he had what the sheep
herders call ''the jumping sickness. a."
His technique in getting over the
garden wall" of his terrestrial home
was marvellous, especially as he had
to forego the pleasure of using his
right arm which was crippled by bull
let's when he was arrested some time
ago.
With Bronco was another convict,
Kinch Mullen, of Roswell, who was
serving long sentence in the peni-
tentiary. Kinch got over the wall all
right, it appears, but the high alti-
tude of the wall and the fact that he
has asthma, seems to have wfnded
him and he did not make the descent
gracefully. He was so shocked by the
fall that he lost his courage to take
journey and this morning returned to
the penitentiary giving away the plot
of his and Bronco's escape.
Bloodhounds were at once sent on
Bronco's trail, but it is said that after
trailing it seven miles they gave it
up.
In police and other circles the es-
cape of Bronco was the live topic of
conversation this morning. 1t is said
that he figured in no less than six
train roberies in New Mexico and
once landed $4,000 in Mexican silver
from one of his holdups. Before he
was finally captured and wounded Sc
verely in the right arm he was
great shot. He killed Deputy Sheriff
Vigil of Valencia county and an In
dian at a distance of 1000 feet and
shot both in the forehead, the deputy
sheriff between the eyes, and the In
dian who was with him, in the temple.
1t appears that Bronco Bill went to
Mexico "for his health after some of
his escapades, but growing more dar-
ing, he recrossed the border and Wis
tied ranch in Arizona where he was
finally "corralled.' Before he was
captured he made rapid-fire move
ment on his horse, wheeling around-to
flee and firing at his pursuers with
his pistol aimed over his shoulder.
The bullet, however, missed its mark
that time, and his pursuers literally
pumped lead" in the COW boy ban
dts right arm, putting it out of COM
mission for any more fancy gun play.
His Description.
The following is the official an
of Bronc's French leave
taking as given out by the peniten-
tiary officials:
"No. 1882, William Walters, alias
Bronco Bill" escaped from the New
Mexico penitentiary, the night of the
18th of April, 1911. Age about 43 or
IA years, brown hair, blue eyes, face
very much scanned Right arm from
shoulder down absolutely useless
from gun shot wounds. Size of foot, |
No. 5 or 6. Several small cars on
head; five large burn scars above
right knee Rather nervous in his
His face wears an al |
most continual smile--What might be
termed a quizzical or half amused |!
smile"