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McDonald assassinatedHe is Found Seven Miles from Tularosa Shot in the Head.From The Rio (Iramie Refnthli* tin.We have lo record this week the assassination of Geo. W. McDonald, foreman of the Stuart brothers ranch, at Coyote canon, about seven miles northeast from Tutarosa.The circumstances are as follows: On Wednesday, June 13th, Benito Montoya, while hunting for some cattle, found the corpse of a man laying near the upper spring, belonging to Stuart Brothers. He rode into Tula rosa and gave notice to the justice of the peace. A party consisting of Pedro Aguilar, Rosalio Lope/., Be-nijo Montoya, Victor Duran, Seve-. rianp Gallegos, W. K. Pitt and Jas. H. Hurgz started out immediately to investigate the matter.On arriving at the place designated they found the body of Geo. W. McDonald laying in the shade of a cliffrock, evidently in the position in*which he had thrown himself after taking a drink of water from the spring, with a bullet hole in the center of his forehead. The ball passed through his head and hat and rebounded from the rock on which his head was laying and was undoubtedly the act of some cowardly assassin. The indications anil surroundings testify that after eating a late dinner, McDonald cleaned up his house and went to the upper spring, about one mile up the cuhon to see about the cattle watering and had gone to a little spring about one hundred yards above the troughs, that was well protected, and had taken a drink of water., then had laid down in the shade of rocks to rest, using his hat for a pillow and had either dropped to sleep or had his eyes shaded by his arm, when the assassin who was behind a large boulder about twenty feet away fired the fatal shot. The murderer was either with McDonald on friendly terms and was unsuspected or crawled down from the old house where he had been concealed. McDonald died instantly without a struggle, not even moving his feet which were crossed, or turning his head. His revolver being in its scabbard and his hand laying by his side showed that he never attempted to reach for it. After firing the fatal shot, the assassin got on his horse and ran up the canon about three hundred yards when the horse stumbled and fell throwing the man who held on to his rope. He then rode over into the Salado canon and from there to the Tularosa canon, where all trace of him was lost on account of the great amount of cattle and horses on the trails.George W. McDonald was about twenty-three years of age, and unmarried and he came to this Territory about three years ago, with Altman and Lee from Abaline, Texas. He was a partner . of O. M. Lee in the cattle business, and was a young man of good moral habits and well thought of and respected by thecommunity.■ * *
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Santa Fe Herald
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sat, Jun 23, 1888
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