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Gladys MorrissBEAUTY SALONSupersonic Waves Expert Operator Carrizoxo, N.M.ly on the trail of Billy Bonny. Through kindness of his many friends, hiding in mountain caves, homes, canyons, and keeping out of their reach when the searchers were warm on his trail he roamed the country for a long time.TRUELie InfoodsVALUESFresh Fruits and VegetablesTop Grade MeatsFISH • FRUITVEGETABLESICE CREAMMEAT DISHESUALITYfiROCERY MARKter. we laugnea . . . ne so iat li was funny to see him run . . , puffing and stumbling . . . when we laughed we didn’t know wfhat was going to happen to poor George.”“As he came up to the court house we all heard Billy yell . . . “Look up here!” George, he did look up . . . about that time . . . bang' Billy shot him in the belly . . . he was so fat . . . with a double barrel shotgun . . .” The body fell to the ground, with the face of George looking surprised .. . and blood ran from the torn belly of the man onto the dusty streets of Lincoln Town... where blood had been shed before.Severo goes on with the story and says All us boys were frightened . . . and started to run. Billy yelled to me saying “Severo, don’t run . . . come help Gus (the cook in the jail) get a horse andsaddle frofri the corral.”“I knew Billy had helped my father and I must help him. I went to the corral . . . caught the horse ... a fine big one . ..black with a white nose . . . took himback to Billy. Right then Billy came out with every gun in the jail . . the *he he killed Georgecome to see my brother cnavez . . . they were always such amigos.” *Severo talks of this period of his life as the most exciting . . . but he has lived long in Lincoln County . . . and knows the stories well of many things . . . . floods on the Hondo and Ruidoso rivers . . . minor feuds between men of the area over land . . . water . . . cattle . . . When still in his teens he w?ent with h i s father and mother to the Cree Ranch where they worked for awhile. From the time he was a young man until the last eleven years he worked on some of the largest ranches in the county. Always working with stock, cattle, sheep, horses, mules . . , with Frank Coe, Emil Fritz, Block Ranch, Captain Lee in Roswell breaking horses, Jose Anaya who had a huge sheep ranch years ago below Tinnie, Martin Chavez old ranch where Picacho is . . . and Pablo Frosquez in that same locality. When asked about ln-8TOCK REDUCING 8ALE10% to 40% DISCOUNT!NROYBOOKKEEPING and TAX SERVICE Box 156 RuidosoAntiques?
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Ruidoso News
Ruidoso, New Mexico, US
Fri, Aug 06, 1948
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