The eagle., April 22, 1896, Page 5, Image 5

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THE KAULK: WKDNKSÜAY, APRIL 22 1!M.
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MURDERER JAILED.
Oils of the Mnrliroi'K of Col, Fountain
Ilttllevecl to II In Jnll.
The Albuquerque Democrat of hint
Wednesday printed the following arti
cle in reference to the Fountain murder:
The report was brought up from Las
Crucen last night that Acting Sheriff
Garrett has placed in jail there a man
believed to he one of the murderers of
Colonel Fountain and his boy. The
prisoner is Luis Herrera. He is the
man who was arretted a few weeks ago
for prowling around Sheriff Ascarate's
house with a pistol. It, was believed at
that time that II ari'era mediated mis
chief to Mr. Ascarate, hut. nothing more
serious than carrying a pistol could be
proved against him, and after a few days
in jail he was tried for that offence, con
victed and sentenced lo pay a line of
$50 and serve sixty days in jail. He ap
pealed and was released under bond,
his securities being leading republican
politicians and vigilantes."
Garrett and bis deputies learned
something in their recent expedition
to Tularosa, and they told llerrera's
bondsmen enough to induce them to
withdraw the bond and surrender Her
rera, who has not been charged with
the murder, but is in jail on the old case.
The circumstantial evidence against
the man is said to be strong, and it is
made more significant by his ersistent
lying about his movements. He has
been in Major I.lewllyn's employ re
cently, and at Sheriff Garrett's reiiiest,
Llewellyn obiaincd from him a written
statement of his wh-rcaboiils at the
time of the murder. That statement, is
now know n to be false. Herrera savs
he was in Lincoln county during the
last days of January, and that, ou Feb
ruary 1 he was at l'rude's and atTyrell's
in the Sacramentos, lioth of these men,
well known citizens, deny this and w ill
swear that he was not at their
place until February tí. Herrera
was in Las Cruces on January .'0, and
ou the morning of February 2, he was
found asleep in a corral at. Tularosa.
Colonel Fountain was waylaid on the
evening of February 1. v
Herrera told the man who found him
in the corral his cousin that bis
horse broke down on the road a few
miles from town, and tlutt he walked in,
packing his saddle. He gave his cousin
an order for the horses, in case it should
be found, and went, up toward Three
Hivers. Hy a roundabout course he
nrrv.'d a-. Prude' j on the 6, were he
borrowed a pistol, saying that ho was
out looking for the murderers of Colonel
Fountain. His white horse turned up
along with Colonel Fountain's black
horse near Tularosa. The White horse
is an animal that the political posse de
tectives of Las Cruces have been talking
about as belonging to Oliver Lee.
Those two horses the white and the
black were ridden over the Tularosa
road, past a lone camper on the White
Lands, at a furious gallop on the night
of February 1, and Herrara undoubted
ly was the rider of the white horse.
Sneriff Garrett is said to be very conli
dent that he has the right man and will
soon have his accomplices.
If Garrett is right, and a man of his
experience is unlikely to be much mis
taken, the Fountain case loses its polit
ical features and becomes an ordinary
crime of violence committed bv robbers. I
Herrera, it apnears, hail also another
motive. lie Mi ved that Fountain had
wronged him in a matter of wages, ami
hail reason !o suppose that his dis
charge from the employ of a member of
I he slock association in Lincoln last
January was due lo Col. Fountains in
fluence. The men suspected of being
concerned with Herrera in the murder
are Mexican horse thieves who invest
the plains east of the Organs.
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All of the sores caused by the election
of delegates lo the late republican ter
ritorial convention have not yet been
healed. One day last week, at Sucorro,
Klíego Haca, county clerk of Socorro
county and W. K. Martin, a member of
the legislature from Socorro county and
who will he remembered by most oí our
readers as deputy clerk of the court of
this judicial district, under A. L. Chris
ty, got into a quarrel in asalnonin So
corro. Martin struck Haca who pulled
a pistol and commenced tiling at short
range. He 11 red three shots without
effect before Martin could make his es
cape. Martin was not armed.
Hoth Martin ami Haca are prominent
in the councils of the republican parly
in Socorro county ami both have made
a record as bad men willi guns.
The snow of last week in the northern
part of the territory is said lo have been
the heaviest which has fallen in New
Mexico in the I, ninth of April for a per
iod of more than twenty yean. It is
believed that this snow will insure a
good stage of water in I he Uio Grande
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