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DEPUTY SHERIFF LUIS RREYTAWOUNDED BY BLACK AT ISLETAfSURROUNDED IN NEARBY SWAMPPatrolman Pablo Lujan Fires Shot That EndsMurderous Career of Jim Williams AfterAlbuquerque Officers Bring Him to BayIndian Officer and Santa Fe Call Boy HaveFighting Chance to LiveA bullet from the rifle of Patrolman Pablo Lujan, ofthe Albuquerque police force, ended the mad career of Jim Williams, negro bootblack, after he had been brought to bay in a swamp three-quarters of a mile northeast of Isleta yesterday morning by a posse of Albuquerque officers. The posse rushed to Isleta on receipt of telephono messages that the negro had shot Deputy Sheriff Luis Abeyta and escaped. The wounded man was brought to St. Joseph’s hospital.Late la^t night Dr. W. R. Lovelace, attending physician, said that both Abeyta and Lawrence Mackey, the first victim of the negro, have a chance for recovery. It is very slim—but a fighting chance, he said.Th* crawd mero di*»d fiKhtinsr IKhaw* of f hr prohibition force her*%nrgro an fleeing to th* wrodft near the Indian vtt'age after ne had seriouslyfa tally wounded Imiian r.no sp#e-offirer. at tho vii-ind |e rhap *\ Ley fa, Islets, Ha n f aitslt; HhrtM Of fho prohibiting of fleer#arrived after the negro wt» stainand | Hheriff Fred Fc rnoffalso arrived Just after the ehonunf. A tiuml»tr of Ha tit. a It* employ##,* 1 6 thw h # n T t; *hr .♦* a rIndian arre*t«*d him | headed hy Station Ma«cr ICd Sinha 4a r gr of ahootlngidBantuV* e *a.tuition he?-er a i ifoiy night,I Irt^ vhot at WomanAnd In hi# flight throughM alt; k *■ y,hoy atThaiflt; bur and Steve Hecoh, ti lan went toIsleta arid arrived Ju*t mt the negro *last gun playthpuma of tharouse i tot little village.inwt* *excitement byIhtI hfnoun da of firing and th# ery of I wounded ffloer, tti# madden I ^dda of. the w negro fired a hot from hla murder -\;of th# [Matt m aider at I a lata.. M ri.S#ia had witnessed .the struggle be-tween the negro and Abevtji. andhad peon the officer fa!IPPPPiL^ m-m wotmHer rrirs to the negro to halfhr?* atfen tbm and, v thoyt c her icing his pare, he turned hta amoklngff'volver In fh* dlr**otton of the defenseless woman and fired. But? tii* phot, wen? wddwas* engaging in «p with Lyjtn and MoragauFoms* VIismIad tha? Wu.M * fifL, , ’ S r,. .iff Ortlg and Bangh art ? ircladhe river banka to the tggod and mariai w§g|»On the went aide of the woods w#r*»* ’hlef of Folio# (laluaha. Or egg andHhaw, a n(] 10 the soul h ea« a pe waietif off for the negro by ttiroag* of' rValenria county, an t a deputy Then the posse began to elos# In on the negro youth who had wounded two men and who wag known to he hiding somswher* m 11 * Htfie bosky ready to fight 10 death.
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Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Sat, Jan 08, 1921
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