| Show alerce irb dattle with Sm ulers irr cr customs guard has desperate fight with rum runners on mexican border WIFE TELLS OF knives and pistols were used in battle in brush on the banks of tile the rio grand grangie e automobile I 1 e Is riddled dalgo tex tc one of the most des deb single handed encounters atch which ever took aluce between a united states itis officer and it gaia ga I 1 I 1 of S un oil the lite klo arando border bolder fell to the lut lot of dick alacon uell liell a government go eminent river ici guard here heie a few nights ago agu mcconnell acconci panted by ills wife and two to little daughters was ais riding in in art antoino bile along lilun tile aitio Urn inu le cicur town leaving Lc alig tile the cur car started 1 toward the rh jr r bank lie hf liml had KOHL gone but a short tit dl tance when liati he ha was us fired upon trum frow A bullet knocked on oft tits ills dijt lie dished toward uio uie spot front which halli the bullets were coming ile returned the fire iri us lie ho ann into the brush unit mid there came upon tile lie two to mexicans on of thein grabbed blin by the I 1 buck ac k of neck und and it ensued during which ln lie received knife uj ida anti had find ills pistol holster cut to pieces ile he drew it a dinall chinall gun bun which bilili lie fit carrie curilee 1 la in the holster trader ills shirt till timid 1 tired fired ut tit ills illint latiin liti in lit lie killed tind rod tile lie hody fell into the rapidly ils ink ing RIO illo Or orlande linde airs 11 1010 was na in it tho e car ut at the tinie time of the attack gave the following account cifes account 1 I and the children were ero in tile buck back eat cut of the car when lion we e drova up tip nun near tile the river divor bunk bank near tile lie boat ferry landing As my husband ind got out of if the car and started to KU go down domi tile lie bank there cattle it flash of it gun almost sili in hii hh fine fate and ills his hat fell OIT off and something struck the car dick jumped back pulled his hid uta li little and began to shoot again mill find gain cattle the flash and some something I 1 hing struck tile cur car again the chi children loren and I 1 could coald see tile lie ninn who ans as shooting nt mv bd hack bucking fit lown down under alii lie blink and iny illy husband liui bund walking tinni lafin shooting shoot ln illey both arod under tit the bank lien wo we heard a noise like ilka willell nian fighting or struggling I 1 wits getting nervous and did gilld riot nut know vital it to ilo do we vw benl three more shots find I 1 heard oine one lite yell out in Me sican shortly brier lily iny husband cattle to tit lie top toi of tile lie ha libin holding illing tits ids bunds allind to tits fike and 1 I told mo me it to drive tu to deputy i J it II clerks house all filing hi ing anti also it lantern I 1 I 1 drove its as hist fust ns as I 1 could and returned with clark and the lintern wf round my iny hus hailds flat tiena tile he car 11 hole 11 in till top tol of the crown on tile river bank we picked up a loing banded knife lying partly lu in the water was mas a felt hat with ft kb three tarco bullets in it near tin bor boat it w nus 11 I 1 sack containing seventeen quarts of f tequila upon returning tl ti tile car we found W hero here three bullets hat had the cowl col ono cite of which passed through find and lilt the OIL steering wheel liefl breaking it part inart of it ott off one olio of tho the bullets pl errIng the cowl col lint but sl spending C it ding aliss ts force against the iron dash was as picked up nil by b deputy collector cla clur r and was waa said to ile be front from it 45 ilie alie other lilt hit tile hide of ill alir cowl col anti and off |
