The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-29
CLEANING Up" THE ROUGH SPOTS
N PORTO RICO FOR UNCLE SAN
How the Island Terror, Po-
males, Was Captured In
Exciting Gun Play.

the terror he inspired in the country
folk kept them from denouncing him.
In 1905, however, he was sentenced to
six years for murderous assault.
"While everybody else was cclebrat-
ing the Fourth of July in 1906 Pomales
broke Jail again and was not caught
until the following Christmas. He was
again sentenced, with nine months add
ed. He celebrated Nov. t3. the follow
ing year, by escaping again, hut was
caught three days later in Arroyo. The
following May he got out again and re
manned at large until November. He
broke out again in January and re-
mained free during the most OF 1909.
In December we locked him up again.
but toward the end of the summer of
1911 he took French leave and was
soon terrifying everybody in the dis
trict between Coamo and Salinas, a re-
gion thirty miles square. He had
armed himself with two forty-fours,
and he committed all sorts OF outrages.
He eXacted tribute from the residents
and held them under terror.
well, last March he was reported as
being particularly active in the miping
district where Peter Nelson lives, and
the rumor was that he was laying for
Nelson. 1t seemed time to go after him
and get him right. So l detailed Dario
Suarez, a detective, and Haddock and
Vasquez, two very efficient policemen,
to go into the mountains and bring him
back dead or alive. The neighborhood
where he was working was right near
Jagome Alto, where the governor has
his summer home. and as Governor
Cotton stays there a great deal alone
at night | felt things were not safe for
him.
Capture of the Man Killer.
THE three men reached at daylight
an intersection Of roads where PomuleS
had the habit of passing. Nelson had
informed us that the outlaw was liv-
ing with his 'querida' near fort in
the Carmen mountains, the 'querida'
tending a little banana patch around
the place. 1t was Pomale's custom
every morning to walk over to a fork
Of the mountains from which he could
see all the country about and then plan
his days program.
THE officers stationed themselves in
the fort, and shortly afterward along
came Pomales. looking about sharply
as If suspecting an ambush. When he
IL, nf a.,
latter jumped out and ordered him to
throw his hands up. Pomales' reply
was a bark from each Of his44's' and q
yell that he would never be taken
alive.
zone bullet went through Suarez' S
Haddock carried one of the short guns
Of the insular police, and without wait
ing he unloaded into the desperado
but not before Pomales had put a bul-
let through his left arm. The outlaw
kept pumping lead at one or the other
Of the policemen until he had emptied
his revolvers. The policemen, how.
ever, had jumped in upon him, and the
last shots went wild.
"They put Pomales upon litter and
with the aid Of poems, got him to Qua
yama, where he confessed his crimes
among them the details Of the murder
Of Mcdonald n.aeteen years before
He told how he and his confederates
had pried boards loose from the floor
Of McDonalds shack, waited until the
miner was asleep and then entered
through the floor, taken their victim
out and run their machetes into him
every few minutes to make him tell
where his money was.
"Pomales died the next day"