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Show An Affray With Mexican Smugglers Galveston, December 10. The News Eagle Pass special says: Sheriff Oalesby, with Robert Dowe and James Oliver, visited the Del Gardo ranch last evening with a warrant for the arrest of Manuel Del Gardo, on the charges of smuggling and horsestealing. horsesteal-ing. The "ranch is twenty miles below Eagle Pass, on the Bio Grande, and has been famous for many years as a rendezvous for horse-thieves and outlaws from both Republics. Repub-lics. A gang of Mexican smugglers and desperadoes made it their headquarters. Arriving at the house the officers found Del Gardo asleep on the lower floor and were about to seize him when he awoke and fired at Dowe, the bullet grazing his head. The Sheriff instantly fired, sending a bullet through Del Gardo's heart. The firing aroused the gang, who attacked the officers and drove them from the ranch. Obtaining reinforcements from this place, the Sheriff arain attacked the ranch at 5 o'clock this morning. Many shots were exchanged and three Mexicans were killed. The others escaped es-caped into Mexico, carrying several wounded wound-ed with them and taking about thirty horses, all of which are believed to have been stolen stol-en One of the smugglers was arrested. Much plunder was found on the premises. Del Gardo had been a terror to the. border - - . t |