The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-05-31

OUT OF GRANT
COUNTY HILLS
Insane Man Says Spirits Told
Him to Travel from Colora-
do to Pinos Altos and Ex-
hume Body; Performs as
per Schedule.
tFrom the silver ci,y Enterprise.)

automobile for hire and who returned
last week after an absence OF eight
months, is confined In the county
IAN on an insanity charge preferred
by County Physician Dr.. william Me-
Lake. who p%ronounces the patient "A
dangerous %paranoiac,
Perduc seems 10 be iaborlng under
the hallucinatlon that ne n under the
control Of spirits and that he IL COM
PEELED To do whatever they command
HIM. He claims that one day recent
~ In Colorado they commanded that
he come 10 New Mexico and GO q a
spot eleven miles north of Pinos Altos
at the Davidson sawmlll and exhumc
the remains OF a human body That
had lain buried for the last ten or
twenty years and which ne claims
was murdered. The mystlfying part
Ct the affair and one for which DIR
Lake Is wholly unable "a account. is
that Perdue did find the remains ~
a human body at the spot indicated.
He went last Saturday. walking 1lI
the way, and footed Il into David
sons sawmill camp about dusk. After
being put up for the night he arose
about midnight and went over an nj
most inaccessible mountain 10 a spot
where a body had been buried many
years. lie dug out the remains and
brought them back to camp. They
consisted of only a few bones. tho
Fkull and the larger bones Of the legs
end arms These he had put in "A box
ana leaving the box in an old corral
he started to walk back To Pinos
A1fna - fha ..Nlaa s.A.N.- A.Nra
reaching that place about . o'ciocn
sunday morning. From there he tel
egraphed the sherlffs office la silver
City that "A man had been murdered
north Of Pinos Altos and that he had
recovered the body. Deputy McCar.
responded post-haste. but upon talk-
ing with the man concluded hat ne
was insane and brought him to town.
Tuesday morning. In order 10 test
his story. DR. Lake. county physician,
aud Deputy Rolla Everett drove tile
man tu the scene Of the alleged crime.
Ferdue promised 10 snow them. In
addition, the raves containing the
bodies of a woman ana child. who he
alleges the spirits told him were muir
dcred at the same time. This he
failed to do. and his talk was 50
rambling and at times wild that Dr.
Lake concluded he was not IA safe
person to turn loose upon the COM
munity as the spirits" might ON
mand him az any time 10 Kill some
one who committed the imaginary
crime. He will he held here pending
disposition of the case by judge Neb.
lett who II at present In Socorro
holding court.
The few bones that Perdue reco"-
cred have lain buried a. the grnund.
says Dr Lake. for at least ten. and
maybe fifteen years. They are un-
doubtedly the remains of someone
who died in that section n number 81
years ago. The grave was partially
washed out by heavy rains last June
and the people In The s8wmill camp
dug up the remain n reburied
them. How Perdue knew there was
a a In an isolated, lonely spot m
the mountains is still "A mystery. He
had been In that vicinity. al
though he had run his car to Pinos
Altos several timos last summer with
passengers. The Inhabitants Of the
sawmill camp say they never saw him
before.
The entire tale reads like a page
nom Edgar Allen Poe. II has ex-
cited the curiosity of the in~credulons
end opened the way for an interest
Ing psychological study and an adj
venture into psychic research realms.
the contract tomorrow for the new
Clovis school building FOR which slS.-
O0O bonds recently were voted.
The Roswell city government has
ordered the paving OF seventh street
from Main to Missouri enu
The Eddy county teachers insti-
tute viii be held at Carlsbad July ~
To a. W. 81. Mcfarland OF silver
city viii be the conductor.
n. G. Edgill has sold the Molrosc
Dairyman-Farmer 20 r. 3. Boyle
who has been connected with the pa
per for some time.
John W. BalloW has been appoint
ed 10 an the unexpired term of
N'N - NAAANNhWf NNhNAN AANAh W
Roosevelt county, whose death occur
red last week.
George n. Webster, Jr., owner of
large orchards near Clmarr0n, Colfax
county, reports that the recent fr0sts
did not seriously iniure the fruit crop
OF that district.
Filings IN government land In
otero county were made al Alamo
sordo last week 10 the extent OF li2O
acres.
The ColfaN county Institute opens
today at Ration. Prof John IA.
Vaughn OF the state Agricultural col
lege Is the conductor.
Clovis has determined to pass u
Fourth of July celebration and re-
serve Ia resources for a Curry county
fair In september.
The annual pona Ana county fair