The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-01-18
CLYDE ARMOUR'S
BODY FOUND; MUIR.
OERED IN MOUNTAINS

Santa Fe, Jan. l5.--The Clyde Ar
mour murder mystery is solved.
Missing since the afternoon of Oc-
tober %, when ne was seen motoring
from Las Vegas toward Santa Ee,
Clyde Armour is now known To have
been killed by heavy charge of shot
fired into the back of his neck sever
ing the arteries and causing him 10
bleed to death. Six shot were taken
from Armour's skull late last night
by County Physician h. l.. Ward who
made an examination of the bones
now at the undertaking establishment
OF Z. A. Rising on Upper avenue. The
skull, vertebrae and other bones of
the murdered man. found Sunday. will
be held here as evidence against Ebert
W. Blancett. of Friday Harbor. Wash.
now being hurried to Santa Fe to an
s@er the charge of numbering Armour
and stealing his automobile. He is
expected to arrive any time.
The discovery of part of the skele-
ton Of what was once the powerful
athletic young chief clerk of the North
Western railway at Sioux City, Iowa,
came as the dramatic close yesterday
to long search for the missing man,
begun when the Santa Fe New Mex
lean first announced that a cold-blood-
ed murder had doubtless been perpe-
trated in Santa Fe county.
The first news of the discovery of
the remains of Armour came shortly
after noon when long distance mes
sage from Carlos Creamer. at Pecos.
stated that Antonio Sandoval y Griego
a native living 2 3-4 miles above Glor.
ieta, had discovered a human skull
and vertebrae in the hills, 300 yards
to the left Of the Las Vegas Santa Fe
road. and about two and half miles
above the station at Glorieta.
Marvellous, indeed, was the manner
in which Antonio Sandoval came into
possession Of clew which not only
clears up the mystery surrounding the
of Clyde Armour. but
furnishes evidence on which the state
may work in prosecuting for the mur-
der. Incidentally, it also brings to
Sandoval the handsome sum of $1,000 |
reward offered by the Armour family. !
IL was sitting in my house with my |,
family" said Sandoval, "when | saw |
my little black dog running around
with something in his mouth This
vas about 4 o'clock Sunday morning.
did not pay much attention to the
log until suddenly noticed he had a
human shin-bone with black shoe on
i. took my dog out on the road and
ne kept looking up into my face and
hen running along as though to lead
ne somewhere.
"The little dog took ME down the
-oad and across the hills. And after
had climbed about 100 yards over the
Hills. which were covered with a light
all Of snow, | found in an arroyo the
skeleton of man. Perhaps twenty
'eet away, at the entrance to the ar
'oya, saw shotgun and near it
iome clothes badly torn"
As soon as Sandovals discovery had
,een phoned to Santa Fe the authori-
les lost no time in going to the scene
# the murder. Attorney NJ. T. Dun
avy, representing the Armour family.
Isked Undertaken c. A. Rising to go
With him.
The identification of the skeleton
IS that of Clyde d. Armour was made
complete by the marks in the clothes
md paper found in the watch pocket
Il the outing shirt. The tailor's mark
n the coat and vest. which were OF
ray check, showed that the clothes
lad been made by the Royal Tailors,
4 Chicago. for &C. d. Armour, LIP
s." A receipt for work done on his
)ldsmoble found in the shirt pocket
vas regarded even as a better mark