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UNSUCCESSFUL PRISON BREAK RECALLS MURDER IN DONA ANA COUNTY JUST TEN YEARS AGOThe prison break Friday of 29-year-old Delbert Lord, who was serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary at Santa Fe, recalled the kid nap-slaying in Dona Ana county of elderly, crippled Robert Aubuchon, just ten years ago Saturday. Lord and the two men who escaped from the penitentiary with him were recaptured shortly after the break,i ......——----—— ---. Sentenced tu ChairCrucen Heads HomemakersCLOVIS, March 15 l/D—'Teresa Viramont.es of Las Cruces was elected New Mexico state president of the Future Homemakers of America in the closing session of the third annual state ennvrn-Liim here today. She succeeds Nlnn Simpson of Lovington, elected nt the etviYention at Las Cruces last year.Other officers: Kay Young.Carlsbad, vice president; Catherine Desmond, Rogera, secretary; Regina Cruz, Springer, treasurer; Mary Alice Lavato, Las Vegas/historian; Billie Joyce, parliamentarian; Jnanc Summers, Grants, chairman of public relations; Betty Wade, Melrose, eh airmail of recreation; and Bloida Thomas, chairman of state and ^national planning. '■ — ■ ........Fruit Flies Survive V-2 Trip al SandsFruit flies survived a trip more than 08 miles in altitude In the w*r head of a rocket launched last month at the White Sands proving ground.The Army disclosed the results of the experiment Fridny afternoon reporting that the flies—first living organisms to be carried in the rocket—appenrod none thlt;* worse for their ascent to an altitude of 360,000 feet.The rocket carried special equip-Lord wns lound guilty of murder in the. first degree here Aug. 20, 1037, after a four-day trial, and sentenced to the electric chair. His sentence was later commuted to llfo imprisonment. •His brother, George Alfred Lord, und Walter Smith were found guilty of second degree murder in the mine case and given 50 to 00-year sentences; a fourth defendant, Bm-melt Powell, was acquitted.They were charged with kidnap-( ning Aubuchon, who was nil em- j ploy© at a Pcm'.ng camp ground, robbing him, and shooting him oil! she mesa near Aflr.n when they! found he had much less money. than they had believed.Brother ConfessedThe Las Cruces Dally News of March 16. 1937, soys George Lord confessed that he nnd his brother, aatlated.by Smith and Powell, forced the older man Into a car.' After slugging him with agun. the Dnlly News said, themen forced him nut of the rnr,.vhichjiad run out of gas.*Aubuchon broke away from hi*j captors nnd tried to run away up a canyon. He was caught, however. and after he had begged unsuccessfully for his life, was shot twice, through the head.Vluniontcs SheriffAubuchon hod become acquainted with the brothers when they visited the tourist camp in Doming where he wns slaying early In February.Stories of the killing rated tup heads in the Dally Nowa for four L'ousei:olive days; the trial was
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Las Cruces Sun News
Las Cruces, New Mexico, US
Sun, Mar 16, 1947
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