Semi-weekly herald., 1912-11-14
SAM TRULY KILLED LAST
SUNDAY IN COX CANYON

Last Sunday DR.. Lingenfelter re-
ceived message from the lower Ami
mas at 5e to hurry to Co: caryoh
where Sam TRULY had been shot.
At 4:05 one of Butler G. Fo-
lcy's autos was speeding down the AMI
mas to the scene. but owing to the rough
country the auto at first was not able
to get within about four miles from the
scene OF the shooting. and the doctor. ac-
companied by one of the residents. start
ed across country through the sage brush
and chico and after travelling about two
miles on foot came to point where
they found Butler with his machine which
ut this point got stuck in the wet sand.
The doctor was given a horse by some
one and started where the Injured man
was lying, reaching his side about 7
O'Clock. He found company of twenty
five to thirty congregated there, some In
rigs and others horseback. He found
TRULY lying on his back. II position he
had been placed by the early comers who
found him lying on his face and almos,
smothered. The wounded man was placed
on cot and then into Joe Smiths rig
and conveyed to where the auto was in
waiting. En- route to Durango at the
request of Sam TRULY. DR.. LingenfelteI
stopped at the TRULY residence and
dressed a flesh wound received by Dave
McCullon who was with Cox. The party
then came on to Durango. reaching here
about r. After an examination DIR. Lin
genfelter informed the wounded man and
his brother Dave that he could not pos
sibly live and this proved true, as the
died nt is
said District Attorney Lane has a sworn
statement regarding the shooting, but
nothing is given out as to the dead man $
statement,
The ball entered the center and right
side OF the neck and we understand
lodged In the should or body some place
The shooting. according to Dave Nc
Cullon, who was with Cox, and the story
told in Durango is about as follows:
TRULY and McCullon We're riding down
Cox canon when they heard series OF
shots, the bullets coming in their direc-
tion. McCulon, the next thing he knew
TRULY fell from his saddle and then he
(McCullon) started to run his horse be-
hind some rocks when his horse fell ant
after getting out of the saddle he started
to run when "A bullet struck him in tn,
1 right leg which caused him to fall tc
the ground, position he remained II
for over an hour. trying to make believe
he was dead. fearing to get up and be
shot at again. He says he recognized Tx,
Cox. John Graves, his nephew. and Jes;
Harmon. After the expiration of an hou
| the horse ridden by TRULY came neal
| him and he got up and mounted. riding
| FOR the TRULY home where the infor
nation was given and DIR. Lingenfelte,
| telephoned. Parties at once started Il
where TRULY fell and found him as abov,
reported. McCullon says the VIII,
| did the shooting were riding along tn,
| rimrock or on top of the ridge ant
easily recognized.
| Warrants were sworn out FOR the ar
rest OF Cox, Graves and Harmon b,
| Dave TRULY this morning, charging then
with murder. The warrants are held b,
| the sheriff's office as the men are in New
Mexico and arrests will have to be mad,
by New Mexico officers and requisitlor
papers obtained unless they give them
| selves up. District Attorney Lane wen
down on the morning train aceompanie,
| by Surveyor Roy Goodman to ascertain
II the shooting took place In La Plats
| county. Colorado, or San Juan county
| New Mexico, in order that proper juris
diction may prevail from the start L
the shooting took place below the III
Plata county line then the prosecution
of the case is up to the county to tn,
| south OF us.
TRULY SECOND VICTIM OF FEuD
Herald readers are undoubtedly familiar
with the Cox-Truby trouble. year ng,
last May one Sunday afternoon Ike Co,
rode into Durango and gave himself up
| stating that he had shot and killed Bil
TRULY. at the same time having an en-