The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-01-08
ARMOUR SEEN
SEVEN MILES FROM
CAPITAL, IS LATEST
Las Vegas Man Gives Information
Which It Is Thought Will Facil-
itate Matters in the Search Now
Being Conducted.
tspecIaI correspondenee.l

Santa +. y. NJ, Jan. S.-No trace
has been found OF the body OF clyde
u. Armour. who is supposed TO have
been murdered by Ebert W. Blancett.
although the search continues un-
abated. However. II is believed by
those in charge OF the investigation
that the scope of country over which
the search will nave to be conducted
has been cut down considerably since
the receipt Of = letter from Jack
Stewart OF Las Vegas. who is positive
he saw Armour and his travelling
companion about seven miles east Of
Santa Fe on the day Armour Is sup
posed 10 have been murdered. In
formation was FIRST obtained ovor the
phone from Mr.. stewart, but In a
letter received here b. Melvin T.
Duplavy. Mr.. stewart goes more into
details. His letter follows:
East Las Vegas. y. NJ.
Jan. {. 1917.
mir. NJ. Dunlavy, Santa Fe. y. n.
Dear Sir: Complying with your
phone message Of last night. will try
and tell YOU all / know Of the Armour
car, or car ! believe was Armour's.
which ! saw Monday. October 20.
"a III AA
left Las Vegas Monday morning about
. o'clock. going e Santa Re. About
ten miles from Vegas. ! heard the
report Of a shotgun and. coming
around a turn in the road, saw a car
about a hundred yards OF 10 the right
OF The road. when | came into sight
OF the men was getting into the
car with a shotgun. There were two
men in this car and the one who was
driving '1as without a hat fol-
lowed this car for about ten miles.
sometimes being close and then again
quite a distance back. This car had
an Iowa tag N a canvass cover from
the back of the front seat TO the back
seat. The way | remember about the
Iowa tag was from a remark my sis
t~er-in-law made 20 my wife. that
maybe she knew these two boys. hav-
ing lived IN Iowa herself.
we stopped for about I'VE min
utes and didn't see anything more of
the car until we got to san Jose. just
| before coming 10 the bridge over tht
\ Pecos river, / broke "A front spring
ana stopped about ten minutes nxing
IL ~ When | came To the saloon
this side OF San Jose this same car
was stopped there, ard the two boys
were inside. va kept going until We
reached Pecos. where I stopped about
an hour, fixing the broken spring
That was about noon, a. Mr.. Harri-
son and some Of the other boys were
al dinner. eve stopped at J. W
Harrison's stoTe).
About three miles from Pecos We
stopped and ate lunch ana while
there. there were i've or six cara
passed. Each time W. would hear a
ear coming someone Of the party
wouid remark. There comes the
boys but they did not pass us aud
didn't see anything Of them until
had come 10 the gate nearest santa
he. where 1 stopped TO look az th'
broken spring. My wife said thai
they "a been behind us TOR quite
awhile. but J didn't notice them unit
! had stopped az this gate. staIte,
before the boys came up and after w'
had gone a little distance asked ms
wife VI the car WAS close upon ~ ane
II they looked like they wanted O.
pass / asked her this question three
or -four times.
AFTER We had gone two or thrc'
miles from the gate. l pulled out %