Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-01-30
HOWE KILLS
j. s. OFFICER
Man Wanted For Murder of
Mcclure Shoots Guard
at Ell Paso
ALSO WOUNDS POLICE JUSTICE
Texas Rangers Join In Pursuit of
Halfbreed Indian
Desperate.

A dispatch from El Paso would In
dicate that there is little doubt but
that Robert Howe is the murderer Of
Special Agent L. X. Mcclure, whose
body was found Saturday in well on
Howe's ranch Is miles from Mount
ainair for it says that Thomas l..
! O'Connor a custom house guard was
! fatally shot today at Fort Hancock
while trying to serve a warrant on
Robert Howe, who IS wanted in New
| Mexico for McClure's murder. JUS
tice of the Peace Henley Of Fort Han
cock was also wounded. The Texas
rangers have been sent in pursuit OF
the desperate, who now is not
thought likely to be taken alive.
The tragedy at Fort Hancock,
is hut a second act of the trag,
edv enacted on Howe's ranch. Ever
since the discovery of Mcclure
body. which showed five bullet
wounds, Howe and his sons have been
fleeing from posses hot in their pur
suit 1t was reported that they were
trying to get across the border into
Old Mexico. .
Mcclure, who was 40 years old
and had been employed by the SAINT;
Fe several years, had traced box ca
thieves to the Howe ranch and ha'
found several carloads of plunder a
the ranchhouse.
Howe and his two sons are hal
breed Indians and are from 4sleta' L
Paso county, Texas, right on the III
Grande.
Funeral in Duke City.
McClure's body was taken to AID
oueroue last night for interment an
his funeral will likely be in charge
,. the Order of Railway Conductors Il
% Mcclure was brakeman, baggagema
II conductor and finally secret servl'
II officers of the Santa Fe.
If The railroad offered reward
5000 to the capturer of Mcclure
~ murderer.
r The other Murder
~ Scarcely 90 miles from the pla
to where Mcclure was murdered aholn
al tragedy has occurred or rather occ'
red some ten days ago but has deV
oped from suicide to a murder,
no cording to reports that are Del
H. received here. 1t is the case OF M
Ill Nora Stewart, which is a pathe
~ one for she was to have been m
,is ed January 20 to Juan Tapla at Me
M ragon, which is little west OF I
-, center of Guadalupe county. she W
IA found dying from two rifle pui
~ wounds Thursday evening, January
w. The tragedy occurred on the Bal
y. ranch and the girl lived long enou
to make statement of ME dl
bolazo" literally Il shot myself one
% Rut despite this antemortem sta
-. l ment an investigation has thrown
'o' cloak of suspicion around Luis Tai
.h' brother of the bridegroom-to-be
20 he has been arrested by Mounted
LIN liceman Sena. In the meantime, Z
o tain Fornoff has received word I
: two doctors from Santa Rosa nj
- gone to Aragon to have the body
w Miss Stewart exhumed for further
II. animation. 1t is thought that n
'no ical examination will show that
INC wounds which were supposed to h
aiiu been in the breast of the girl
le" self inflicted were really from bul
ue which entered her back and one
no which was fired at a distance OF
ecu feet or more. A sartling feature
IN the case is the discovery of Al
eth- from which shell had been thr
Ine out and another inserted to fire
'on' second shot. Luis Tapio was arr
ed at Santa Rosa by Mounted Po
'" man J. A. Street.