Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-17
RAIDERS HANGED
IN new MEXICO
Tragic Human Punishment Inflicted
Upon Murderers--Villa's Men
Paid the Penalty.
VICTIM THOUGHT HIMSELF HERO.
Much Depends Upon the View Point in
This Twisted World---A Just
Execution.
(By Jean Cabell O'Neill. Deming, N
NJ. June 9, 1850

(By Jean Cabell O'Neill Deming, NJ
NJ. June 8, 1850
Part l.
To come to the gem of New Mexico,
a veritable emerald of an oasis in the
desert wastes as is Deming, to see the
most tragic of human punishments in
fiicted on two men, seems an inhuman
thing for anyone. especially a woman,
to do. But the men who were execu-
ted had added to the crime of Cain the
crime of Judea. They were of the
town raided.
Quivering bodies swayed the ropes,
clearly visible to me through the fence,
duty or no duty to my paper. l could
not exactly so within the dobe and
wood enclosure of the cartel, so l af-
fected thoroughly feminine compro-
mise between witness and not witness
by being close enough to know what
was happening and not close enough to
break my heart over the taking of hu-
man life, it matters not how legal it
was to take these lives.
Almsot a month has been added to
the heprieve of Francisco Ayers and
Juan Sanche, who were to have been
executed on May 10 after fair trial for
their part in the raid of Panchos villa
on Columbus, N. NJ, on March last,
when nineteen persons among the
American citizens and soldiers lost
their life.
Both of these men are known in Co
lunohnC If ic aid thay baua haar, fed
and cared for by the people of the
town which they afterward betrayed
seven of these known Villistas having
been captured by the American army
and considering the cost in American
lives and American money of the puni-
tive expedition, the toll of conquest is
small enough.
These prisoners were brought
through Columbus and rested at the
army base there, but they were turned
over to the Luna county authorities
and after trial and condemnation by a
| jury of representative Luna county
men, were put in the Santa Fee prison
for safe keeping. Hardly had this
been accomplished, it is said. when
| extent of a serious attempt to cause
intervention" on the part of Wash
ington between these leaders in the
raid of Columbus and their doom.
A few days ago a second appeal was
carried by one Wade, a local lawyer tc
Washington to try to persuade the
White House to intercede in the mat.
ter of the seven Villistas under sent
enec of death, but Governor Mcdonald
| knows the temper of the State very
| well, and it is not well to try too fal
| people that have suffered as these Co
/ lumbus people have, at the hands o.
Villistas. So, without waiting for an!
further instructions from the Fedora
| Government the two, who without +;
shadow of doubt were of Columbus
and mixed up in the killing of thu
people of that little border town
| were hanged.
1t IS hard TO experience mor'
beautiful scene than that which un
folded before me. as the truck bumped
| over the road to this nearest northern
town to Columbus. Mesquite and sage
vivid green, and gray, and broom brusl
of yellow, stood out clear against tn
afternoon whirling wind picke'
up tons of sand and danced away gail,
across the desert fioor-like wraiths o
whirling dervishes.
The many peaks of the Florida Sierr
and the Three Sisters stood clearl
profiled against the golden sky. pur
pling with the shadows from the east
ern slopes, vaguely green on ridge
showing against the sunset tints of tn
tawrey background. Long before tn
afterglow of gold and crimson fade
the young moon sparkled overhead
near neighbor to one brilliant stal
The heat came in puffs over the fiat
lands and cool strata of air fioode
from the mountain passes, constant
changing. constantly shifting the ligE
| sand until It seemed the plunging ca
| fioated through fine and compellin
| mist. Three times irrigated rancho
were passed, the> only habitations
| forty miles From these patches of a
falfa groups of alamo" trees, the fra
grant smell of vegetation, made th
Fastener sick for home and the MOI
of home foliage.
AS night reluctantly descended th
brilliant lights of a ten-thousand POI
ulation town. strung along the horizo
and almost Immediately the true
took its last plunge and came to ba
with a snort before the newsoffice
The Graphic, to dump the correspond
ent of The Capital in the midst of
, little reception committee of DENIM
! great ones. who had been phoned
her coming, unbeknown TO her. fro
| Columbus. that city asking its northel
+ | sister to take care of their one al
: | only woman war correspondent" al
to keep her safe and return to Arm
Base at the first moment possible,
e "she is needed in our business" III
: town belonged to the aforesaid CORE
: pondent, this including its two new
1 1ox,o~c tF,o edfforc of both faayiup of he