Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1914-04-24
ONE MEXICAN
IS RECAPTURED
Jose DeLeOn Who Escaped From
County Sheriff Retaken Near
Caliente and in Jail.
HIS PAL MAY HAVE
persisted IN HILLS
Prisoner Was In Hiding in Wash, and
Being Fed by Other Mexicans, One
Of Whom Betrayed His
Whereabouts.

Sheriff Froyd returned from West
ern Iron county and Nevada points
last Wednesday, bringing with him
one of the Mexicans who escaped frcm
custody a week previously, Jose De-
GUS and important of the two brothers.
Cruise, if alive, is still at large, but
the sheriff believes it probable that
he may have fallen over cliff and
persisted in the rough hills in which
the Mexicans took refuge on the night
Of their escape. Jose claims to have
lost his brother upon that night and
that he has not seen or heard of him
the country is rough with many pre-
cipitous cliffs, and the Mexicans were
total strangers to the country, which
makes it appear quite possible that
some such fate might have befell the
missing man.
According to the story told by Jose,
the recovered prisoner, he spent two
nights and day in the hills east of
town, trying to find his brother, but
without avail. He then went north
and crossed the valley through the
fields to Iron Springs gap. From
there he went northwest through the
Bald hills, doubling back in the d.
rection of Sarver's ranch and passing
by the corner Of the field, but denies
having eaten at sheep ranch six or
seven miles south, as reported by the
herder, Moroni Smith, who telephoned
the sheriff Saturday morning. From
aryer the Mexican made his way to
Modena, where ne air,.,-..hs:ee DAYS
after his escape, the chilly food tina
he ate according to his statement be
ing some water cress that he procure,
at Iron Springs. At Modena the flu
gitive procured complete change o
clothing and shaved off his mustache
and caught a freight train into Cali
ente, where the squaw he calls hi
wife is staying. He had been hidini
in a wash some distance from towr
and one Of the Mexicans was carrying
food to him.
Sheriff Froyd went to Modena Sun
day and made thorough search 70
the escaped Mexicans, and while he di
not find them he found that Jose
wife had recently gone to Calient,
He also got onto the fact that trun
was being shipped to Caliente in tn
} name of another Mexican. He there
fore took the train to Caliente wher
he created a considerable stir an
frightened the Mexican population s
that one of tham came to him wit
the information that if he, the sheriff
would follow him, he would lead t
where the fugitive was in hiding
This he did, accompanied by the de
putive sheriff at Caliente. The guild,
provided with food, led the way an
the officers followed at some distanc,
After the return of the guide the OF
ficers approached cautiously and cam
suddenly upon the Mexican, seated i
! the bottom of wash seven or eigh
feet deep, eating his breakfast tina
had just been brought. The sheriff
drew their guns and jumped into tn
wash and grabbed the prisoner.
; Apparently Jose is a bad charac
ter and is feared by the other Mex
cans and Indians with whom he con
sorted, which is perhaps the reaso
for his betrayal
The prisoner is now in the city Gag
and well ironed, and will be given n
more liberties or opportunities 70
escape.