Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-23
lie CHANCE
OR OUTLAWS TO
'EVADE PURSUERS
Net Is Tightening Around
DashIey and Acostai Cap
ture of Schmidt Is DeScrib-
ed by Eyewitness,
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Deming. n. NJ. Feb. 22.-How
schmidt. one of the jail-breakers who
took part in the fight Sunday near
Rinean In which Sheriff p 3. Steph-
ems was killed, was captured was cor
rectly told for the first time by Fred
sherman who arrived from Rincon
This afternoon with City Marshal j. C.
Tabor.
With the help of two Mexican
farmers. who had seen Schmidt run
ming toward the bosque near the Rio
Grande, we found the trail of the
fugitive said Mr.. Sherman.
We were then a short distance
from Rincon. The trail was plain
because of the broken shoes that left
peculiar and plain impressions in the
soft bosque soil While w. c. Simp-
son and J. C. Tabor kept the trail ]
followed in a Ford.
I'VE decided after Il short time that
the best thing to do was to go around
schmidt and head him off. We drove
to the Ieasburg diversion dam( ar
irving before midnight Here the
river, the Santa Fe railroad and the
rock highway run very close together
For n time we laid out in the
rocks watching. MIR. Bath, who is
the attendant. at the dam, came out
on one of his inspection tours and
discovered our car. We knew he
thought we were the bandits and not
far off. We succeeded in correcting
this impression and were invited by
him to move our headquarters to the
government house on the steep rocky
bluff between the railroad and the
highway. With his field glasses We
could easily survey every part of the
pass Tabor and | had gone away
for a few minutes to telephone and
when we returned simpson and Bath
We're searching the fugitive. Simpson
and Bath had gotten the drop on him
from pile of rocks facing the red
barn in the turn of the road. Schmidt
had come walking slowly down the
road about 6 o'clock Monday morning
Fugitive Gives Up.
At the command throw up youl
hands from Simpson, the fugitive
smiled in a wan sort of way an(
slowly complied. In answer to thu
question, Have you a gum he sait
Yes but am getting rid Of it now
and he threw a pistol from his bel
to the ground.
The prisoner was taken at once Il
Las Cruces where he is now in Jail
schmidt says that Starr, also Il pris
oner at Las Cruces is probably thu
man that shot Sheriff stephens, a
according 20 his story he was the man
that handled the 30-40 rifle in thu
fight.
The bullet taken from the sheriff
body was of this caliber
From Mr.. Sherman's statement af
ter reaching Deming from Rineoi
this afternoon. It seems certain tina
far from Rincon. and are headed to
ward FL Paso.
Near midnight Monday a saddle
was stolen by one Of the fugitives I
a ranch two miles lrom Grama, tn,
next station north of Rincon. There
is posse south and north on tn
river and it is believed that the mel
can not escape the net that is be
ing drawn about them
Small Chance for Outlaws.
Undoubtedly they have also stolei
horse. Monday morning Sheriff
Felipe Lucero and posse which
Fred Sherman, w. G. Simpson ant
j. c. Tabor had joined after the de
livery Of Schmidt at Las Cruces, pick
ed up the trail on the south side 0
the Rincon mountains.
The fueitives had not crossed tn,
small range in the night. as had beer
expected, but turned toward Grama
y Mexican woman saw Dashlcy anC
sent word to the posse by her hus
band AT Grama they found the mei
mad asked for water at a Mexican
section laborer's shack. This wa
about $50 o'clock Monday morning
The trail to Grama was plain bu
was lost soon afterwards. Men were
sent to Engle and Cutter but Sheriff
Lucero believed that the men turned
down the river and he started par
of his posse to head them off. Mr.
sherman believes that the two will b.
taken soon at or near the scene p
Schmidt's undoing. He declares thai
Dashley was wounded in the figh
near Rincon 1t is evident, accord.
ing to Mr.. sherman that the men dc
not know the country and that they
are hungry aud tired