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iuaowuivy W*. U10VI VUW| ff ^minds me of an occurrence which took place in the Mesilla Valley in 1861.When Colonel Baylor, with his regiment of Texas rangers, arrived in the Mesilla Valley in the winter of 1861, there were several Union sympathizers in that vicinity of whom he was suspicious. On the second or third night after his arrival, about midnight, he was informed that three of these Union men, with their families, had pulled out towards the “Jornado del Muerto,” in an attempt to get to the Union forces at Fort Craig in the north. The colonel accordingly dispatched a detachment in pursuit of the fugitives, who were overtaken well on their well across the “Jornado/' and were brought back to Las Cruces, a small New Mexican village where the colonel had his headquarters at the time. The Union refugees consisted of John Lemon and family, a Mr. Marshall of1 Kentucky, and a German by the name of Jake Applezoler. These three men were confined under guard until the second day of their arrest, then they were taken out and placed under some cottonwood trees, near the acequia, and ropes put around their necks, the ends of the ropes being thrown over the larger limbs of the trees. A detachment of rangers seized the ends of the ropes and stood ready to run them up. Marshall was run up first and died; just as they were ready to run up Lemon, he made a Masonic sign of distress, and in a few minutes the rope was taken from his neck, he was returned to the guard house, and in a few days was set at liberty, very much to the disgust of the rebels who were not of the fraternity. When it came to the turn of Applezoler to be run up (he was not full witted) and as he was about to be run up, his patriotism having failed him, he announced to the runners, “hold on poys, I jines ye. He was, however, run up once and became insensible, then he was let down ahd resuscitated, and finally dismissed. I knew Lemon and Applezoler well, and have often heard some one taunt Applezoler with “hold on poys, I jines ye.rved in the e*l*ratn of OoaDonEverything the market affords at the Bon Ton.elected i to the sec mittee by ing of i same to 1Chairman tral Coi J. J. SHFThe Bo InsST. PA H.GOLIThe Go: sumed, fi December cember 2^ tinued, or as last sei cago and This tri equipmeni les, and i dena, alsc EL PASO TEM,J ...v n* -Loose le can BindeSeize\To otarticles iThis is i scheme iting byYour cboiover 200 ottDinner am tension Ta Rocking alt; verware, Jewelry, ] Carpets, C chines, Et
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Mon, Feb 08, 1904
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