El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-15
BANDIT At ENGLE H0LDSU FIVE.
5H00T50NE AND IS SHOT, ESCAPES
Victim of Bold Hodup With Shot in Thigh Is Brought
to FL PasO While Posses Search Country Around FL
ephant Dam For Man W no Played Role of Lone
Bandit in Engle Saloon Saturday Night.

Somewhere north OF Engle a posse Of
: cowboys from the Diamond a ranch is
I searching the rough country Tor the
/ ho!dup man, VINO is himself suffering
ircn a wound inflicted b. Thompson.
[ Lying in bed at the Providence hos
DItal Thompson, who has lived on the
frontier all his life. described the re
cent excitement" - lie termed IL,
ABOUT as follows,
saturday night around Engle We
Z occasionally have quiet game n the
little saloon up there. Last Satur-
day five of Us were plying pitch.
The game was just a sOCiable one with
only Sc or 81 on the table We'd been
! playing pretty steady until around
midnight L was just then that the
excitement began
Whole Crowd "HeId Up.y
a tall fellow. with mis- hat down
close over his eyes. and q handkerchief
around mis- chin. stepped into the sa-
loon and says: Hands up The hands
came up promptly and he cleaned up
the few coins on the table and then
lined US up alOn- the wall all Of US
facing il and holding our hanCs up.
The hOldup man then began going
through the first man in the line.
There was one young fellow in the
game who had about $500 or $500 on
him, and the hOldup man must have
known about him; he went through
him first
Il was about sec--I from the oppo-
site end on which he started. I've
been on the frontier all my life and
Iverseen plenty of gun plays and this
sort OF thing Just standing I'm and
getting robbed without making a move
ol0n suit me / made I'D my mind TO
grab him when he started going
through the man next TO me We
We're all facing the wall, but 1 turncI
parity around and ade ready TO grab
the holdup man. But he had his gun
Jammed into the back of the man next
70 me, and the gun was cooked. So
waited.
Grabs Robbers Arm.
BY the time he got TO me I was
completely turned around and my back
was TO the wall 1 looked him right
IN the eye when he showed his gun
into my chest 1 kept looking him in
the eye waiting for him TO drop his
eyes when he started 10 go through
ne knew that w I'D be my chance.
Ne stared at each other for 4 minute
or so and then he put his hand into
my pocket looking down at the same
time / grabbed his arm, but he was
TOO quick for me. As threw his ham
down he fired. the juliet GETTING me
IN the right thigh. The next minute
1 had his gun
he made run for the door. but I
was only three feet behind him.
cooked the gun and fired point blank
ana ne dropped to the floor. Some of
the Fellows tried to get the gun from
me and shoot him again. bur I told
them that 1 had certainly killed him
ana ana tnat there wasn't any use mu-
Says He Recognized the Ma.
Wen, Sir, I hadn't kiIIeu MN. How
Il came that 1 didn't. / don't know.
Ds-AS rlgnI up on him, but it turned
OUT tnat the bullet had just grazed mis- /
slGe, burned his rib as we used to
can H. We pulled off his hat and 1
J shlzeu MIN as a fellow who had
"oIkeQ Tor me in my restaurant
went up TO my house and W. left
a guard at the saloon to look after
him. There was a good deal Of avcits- /
ment and most everybody. came nm 70 4
~ mouse TO see how / was 1 auess /
-nal now II happened that the guards 4
-elleFlng each other got careless Anv- Il
way Just about dawn, he makes 4
u eaA and gets clean away
Stops at n Ranch.
ne MADE Tor the 7 y ranch. one {
~ me diamond a ranches, and got /
" eakIast there He had era bbed a 1
horse and the res. of US had 70 % ont !
% the pastures and chase the horses /
~ IN lnaI way We lost considerab HE
lIne- At the Z T Y ranch he told ~ ~
e ndu some sort Of trouble and bOr-
owed a saddle from Burt Cook. one
y ne boys on the ranch Some of
~ tts 10y from Engle come along soon
Ter ana when they heard the I
5Llalsht OF the matter, the Diamond A I
lGys saqdIed right up and started after
nm mere were five in the bunch I
tHu Ine sheriff was notified and nv /
ne middle Of Sunday mornine there
VI Isl Isl nave been dozen out after him I
-nal ABOUT all there is TO it. Nv
tai here ''is Hospl-