Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-10
WOMAN
is RESCUED.
FRIDAY.
School Tqlcher Makes Dis
covery in Wash Where
Posse Searched.
is FOUND. ALIV E
Was Pinned In Gully For Five
: Calys And Nights Without
Food or Water.

After having lain pinned in the bot
tom of a gully in the sacaton grass
Of q great sWale wash on the border
five miles cast Of Douglas for five
days and nights without food or water,
Mrs. Lena Brown was found and
rescued at $50 o'clock Friday after
noon. She was extricated from the
gully and rushed to the county hospl~
tai where attendants reported late last
night there was every hope for the
aged Woman's recovery from her ter
rible experience.
d. K. Ingman, high school teacher,
after having spent his spare time for
two days in the search, was the man
who located the woman lying in the
narrow gully with her feet Stickingout,
unable to move. The posse made up OF
Douglas officers had spent Thursday
and Friday in an exhaustive search
up and down across this same SWale
wash on the south side of the border
fence, where the woman was last seen
on Monday morning. They were near
where she was found and Ingman was
able to attract them by shouting so
that they rushed to his assistance.
Mrs. Brown was found about go
yards north of the border fence and
not more than qearter of mile
from the Mexican border patrol shack
near which the rurales had seen her
on Monday morning. Upon being ex-
tricated from the gully the woman was
able to talk and recognized members
of the rescue squad
She has a large cut and brulse on
her forehead and physicians believe
that an arm is broken but have been
unable, because of her terribly weak
ened condition, to make a thorough
examination. Mrs. Brown was able
to take nourishment at the hospital
last night and was being given Slim
ulants at regular intervals. Every
one connected with the case consld-
ers it a miracle that she was found
alive after the terrible ordeal as she
had been supposed dead somewhere
on the prairie for days past.
Mrs. Brown attended Salvation
Army services in the city on last Sum
! day after which she disappeared.
/ Alarm was not felt over her absence
/ from her home on Fifth street until
much later The Salvation Army IN
/ stituted the first search and reported
the disappearance to the police. Ii
! was through their efforts that the
community was aroused and the OHIO
/ ers became vigilant.
Numbers Of local people have driven
out the past three days hoping to be
| able to find the woman and nearly all
of these at one time or another dur
ing their search passed within lew
feet of the gully in which the woman
Law but were unable to see her because
of the tall sacaton grass.
On Thursday Lieutenant Gatliff OF
the police, Constable Gordon New
man, Deputy Sheriffs Ash and Reed
upon discovering that Mrs. Brown had
been seen easr. of the city, went into
| Mexico and started search there
They found Mexican border patrol
men who had seen the woman in the
swaIe on Sunday evening and agair
on Monday morning.
They searched that day until dusk
but were unable to find any further
traceS.
They returned to the city and or
Friday morning Lieutenant Gatliff
Constable Newman and Deputy Sheriff
Ash headed regularly organized
posse of II men and went into Mexico
They spent the entire day in comb
ing the district in which the woman
had been last seen. These men walk
ed dozens of miles under the hot SUI
with very little water.
They had combed the draw twice
and were making a third careful
search and were near the border fence
spread out across the swale when they
heard Ingman shouting. Immediate
ly they rushed to their cars and spec
to the nearest gate and on to assis
the lone searcher who had been sue
ceSsful.
Much comment is being made OF
the fact that Arizona officers are ablC
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