Show DESPERATE AFFAIR IN TE TEXAS MS inthe last an attempt was made by eight masked men to rob a store at india postoffice Post office maverick county texas on the rio klo grande the proprietor john humphreys makin making a brave desperate and successful defense describing the affair mr humphreys said some eight or ten men vell veli well veil armed and their faces blackened rode up to my store when no one else was in it except tile the clerk and my little son entered the and told the clerk to throw up his hants hands the boy ran out I 1 was ordered to halt hait and fired at twice by two men outside but ran to my house and informed me of the affair I 1 took some cartridges and imy imir shotgun and started immediately when I 1 arrived near the store a crowd was isas standing near the store door but I 1 was unwilling to fire nire not having located my clerk when they saw me the crowd separated running hither and thither and I 1 fira fired both barrels one man fell feli I 1 then ran into my empty vya iya warehouse and fired again twice the whole crowd then rushed out of the store and do de camped under fire some riding double I 1 entered the store and released the clerk and a customer whom they had tied the dead man was carried into an outhouse out house hous C and having ills his face washed he pr proved oved to be francisco chevanik Ch evania a f former oriner customer of mine the robbers fired many S shots 1100 we found the trails of wounded men and horses in every direction and two wounded horses horse s were subsequently found yesterday the sheriff and myself crossed the llo ilo lio ulo grande to investigate buty but though we ve had trails of several ivoun wounded ded men in the town the authorities would give us no satisfaction several of the robbers are known to me and I 1 have positively ascertained that they have crossed over into mexico an old diex Blex mexican ican employed of mine when the firing opened seized his carbine and kept up a lively f fusil laid at the retreating thieves most lof lot of whom where his own countrymen |