The Alaska citizen., 1911-05-08
Trail of the Bloody
 Espanosas in Colorado Mysterious Mexican Muderers Who Killed
 Ihmtv-wo Americans
Mysterious

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 NL,. ..y ,.~ Canon road was be ing l..', ! ..,r. NI- talk of moving The gra.u .t E,ury iarhu-. but the -pir.. .. '.o .f pioneer. victim of rao Du., N-..ln-a~ mus have mur- wur,I -l...-. 'Lr -hel'cr!ng spruce tr l, ..f -'au ~'iN remains a reminder ..sou~ crimes f the 1,oua. E..t..-a-
 Ta, ..r. u. rs, Espuusas is one .aa. "tu never be forgotten even aI,- .l IDu er- TWO of wham ur.Ht...- !. rhy Nr~t pursuit Of t.o .ula-- .." nuw living in Den >---la.. ra--,I "sor the Great Di .iJe
 Na.aau : U@gl o, Denver and John $. usl,t L.H, chase to the EspinosaS when r .u~ ar-' learned who the G,rsw..r- a.' takers of human life were
 H.f ', .c.r ....lry. h.weyer. mys t.li,.- murders committed on the lruDt ....a.- win nc race ot rL, .,ru -rr.r-. added a spirit of in'aHgibft, ga.reu horror 10 the mountains
 Ii Was u.r. n The spring of lS65 tipr -f. t..irr tuuurTy bctWccn p.ou,o and Park counties became p4n,c-srri.E.r yer the murder O. tgayc,,r- no.,- from he southwest 'e 'ho Syu. unN
 The hr-- e..um m the neighbor hood n Canon Ci.y was William Bruce uu IIarI.crabble creek. Bruce one morning early. went to his saw, mill -@Dl,o miles dis ant from his humr. and never returned. Later he wa- rUH ~l.r .nr ugh the heart.
 Before 'Ee terror and excitement over tlc .r.m. lad died out news of another msra," ar Little Fountain sixty miles distant, was reported Thi- -..c Henry jiarhjnS, Whc also or,ra.cI -uamiH. was the victim The old pioneer Has found dead in his hc5 apparently killed with a ha,chc'
 The -'@iu- ,u the m un,ain sink ing dtep in.u the sandstone Crepr further and Iarther with their grew some and ..-iIioIS progress when a man named Addleman was found slain on hi, ranch situated on the road ltadlr- from Colorado City tc the South park.
 The neX, victims 70 fall beneath -.f n : were a brother of Colonel George l. Shoup and man named Binckley The TWO men were murdered in the Red Hills ju the park itself
 The Red Hills-with their stains ol blood-like coloriug seemed to offel fascination for the murderers as did Dead Mans canon.
 Here one day when Nathan s. Hurc was coming from Denver he came upon two boys lying dead i'll the road The bodies were still warm and the fresh blood triclled from the wounds in their heart.
 Hurd, who had put through the tirst road 10 the Mesquite holdings, anc who knew the story of the mysterious murderer haunting the country, shud dered as he looked feartully into the deep timbrrs OH either side of the road,
 The two dead men were well knowr to Hurd, having been in his employ at h.s quartz mill. One of the two was named Lehman and the othel Segya, On a tree near by, says Hurd, was a paper collar of Lehman's upon which something was written il Mexican Later this, he says, Wa: found to contain statement saying that vengeance was to be wrecked upon Americans as sacrifice 10 the Virgin.
 The red hills with the overhanginE cliffs were an excellent place for as sassins. says Hurd. whc, filled witt terror. Lastcncd down into the valle! to Fairplay. where he gave the alarm
 While ihe excitement was stlll a fever heat two men, one named Car ter, driving a cam of oxen for Hurd were attacked. One of them wa killed, but the other escaped througl the fact that the bullet Of th' would-be murderer struck book II which was a copy of the emancipation proclamation. The oxen, becoming frightened at the shot, ran away, thu saving his life. The man with tn emancipation proclamation over hi heart was the only person who ha' looked upon the faces of the murder CTS and lived. His description Of th men proved them to be Mexican and a DurSuit was immediately plan