Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-08-29
TRIES TO KNIFE
night MARSHAL
Notebook Saves Officer Lane
from Injury
ALLEGED WIELDER OF KNIFE
AND BURGLAR ARRESTED
And the Epidemic of Crime that Ha.
TerroriZed Our People Is at
an End 1t Is Hoped

To leather covered notebook
in his vest pocket, Night Marshal
Lane gives credit for the fact that
he was not stabbed to death on
Tuesday morning.
Shortly after the passing of the
early morning train-about $3.50
a. M, the night marshal started on
his usual tour of investigation
through theSantaFe railroad yards
and he had reached point near
the cantaloupe sheds on Seventh
street, when man jumped from
between two cars, and before the
officer realized what was happen
ing, the fellow struck him a violent
blow with a knife. The blow was
SO severe that it staggered the
marshal and before he could re-
cover, the would-be assassin was
fleeing in the darkness, and, al
though the officer sent three shots
after him, it is not thought that
any of them took effect.
When the officer reached the
station and could examine his
clothing, he found that his coat
had been slit open from a point
nearly over his heart to near the
hem, and the notebook which he
carried in his upper vest pocket
: was pierced nearly to the center.
To the book Marshal Lane clearly
owes his life, as without its pro-
lection the knife blade would surely
have reached the place aimed for
his heart.
Whether the would-be murderer
was also the burglar who has been
committing the depredations of
the last two weeks, who supposed
he had been spotted and Was being
trailed by the marshal, or GRIM
inal that had it in for our officer,
knew that he regularly made that
trip and was laying for him, will
likely never be known, as Mr.. Lane
says that the night was so dark
and the affair happened so quickly
that he does not know what his
assailant looked like in any par
ticular.
Burglar Continues to Call
So persistent and bold has become the
night marauder whose acts have been
ehronieled in The Enterprise for the past
two weeks. that our people are becoming
nervous. In the homes of the more timid
there is now a nightly barrieading. and
there has been general furnishing up of
all kinds of fire arms until it behooyes all
who have business out at night 10 walk
the straight and narrow path or they may
be plugged on the way home.
Continuing our record of hocsebreak-
ings from where we left off last week,
two houses on North Thirteenth street
were entered last Thursday night. In the
first-that of John Cohorn-the burglar
secured no cash. Mr.. Cohorn having the
evening before used all his spare change
to pay off a hired man, but he took a
number of cantaloupe receipts. memo
randum book and lead pencil. Then he
called upon Robert Samples, where he
made the biggest haul so far reported.
getting some Ss5 in cash, gold watch
and pair of trousers. In neither case
was any of the occupants awakened, but
patch on one of the mlsoreant's shoes
d, left track that was followed almost to
La Junta.
People began to feel easier on Friday.
thinking the burglar had shaken the Rocky
Ford dust from his patched shoes. but
next morning they learned different. as
the Wiggins rooming house. on North
Fourteenth street had been called upon
for some 81 in cash and another watch.
On Saturday night j. B. Byars' dry
goods store was broken into and the cash
drawer was touched for about SlS in
change. Then at Smiths confectionery
the burglar made a call and sampled the
wares to the extent of six pounds Of salted
almonds.
Very Busy Sunday Night
But on Sunday night the Fellow got real