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Show CAUGHT IN AWFUL I MOUNTAIN STORM I NEW MEXICO JURIST ALMOST FREEZES TO DEATH IN TER fllBLE BLI2ZARO. PARTY ON A HUNTING TRIP Whirling Snow Soon Obliterates Fa miliar Landmarks Forcing Judge to Spend Three Days In Deserted De-serted Little Shack. Carlsbad, N M - Dispatches leci nl-I) nl-I) told brlill) the fact that Judge A. 1 freeman of thta ptarc was caught In the recent terrible billiard while hunting In the (Iiiadalupn iiioiiu tains and that ho hail a iiariow iwcaie from death. The detalla of his hor rlble experience form a thrilling story lln likes to hunt big Hume, and eiery year be and a few friends form a parly and mi Into tho (luada hip mountains, west of here and spend a i weeks k lug heara and deer. The bl md wblili swept down upon the immutalti and plateaus of New ''ivini iceenili -"tut without w.. It !i ld at I wealh r. Ju I'd i in in and nilier mem tiers ol hi i ith lind much success In killing ga ii il n hm ib llrst few da) a that the) , nt in iliu mountains They oti ,iled a lit. shack which wos erected as n seirt of hunting Iwlge by Judge I'reeman n )ear or two ago. The bllisard torn Into tho mountains from tho north early Sundny morning. morn-ing. The cold was Intense. A line, slanUng snow whirled and drifted oier Mother Karth, quickly obliterating obliterat-ing Ihe familiar spots upon tho mountain moun-tain trail Judge I'reeman waa In the hunting shack when the storm set In He had one blanket mid a llmllesl amount of clothing There waa no food or water The oilier member of tho party had pllehed an open rnnip some distance away In the mountains, nnd It was there that the fond, water and fuel were atom! The seierlty of the bllssard cannot bo told In words The wind blew almost al-most a hurricane all day Sunday nnd Monday and the snow camo down In gnat fln-cy blankets at Intervals during dur-ing that time The bitterness of the cold penetrated tho very marrow of Judgo Krtcman Hu remained In hla bunk, covered up with a blanket all day Sunday. Monday nnd until Tuea ,)U)ralioj;riuoii without food, water or fJ1mJsIJfa1wasTeipoc(fiixdurfauiMiUila tlmo that the blizzard would subildo and that he could make his way down tho mountain lo a ranch home. He suffered terribly during the long hours that ha lay uien his couch of brush. Uo might have mado a lire but for tho fact that he was without matches and Iliad he bei a a Id Man the lire the H only available wood was that out nt H which Ihe shack was hulll Tho snow H 1 drifted uler the shack and by the H morning of the second day Ihe only H light that entered the little room was H from Ihe small cracks next tn Ihe H nsif Hnuw penetrated tho room and H formed small drifts nm Ihe floor nnd H (tier ihe blanket In which Judge Krre- H man whk wrapped H lodge Kieemau renehed (hrt ion elusion it iiisiii on the third day of jH his oiilureed ImpilMiiinieut (hat Ihe H only hoi' fur him In sale his life wan H to leaie ihe sluek and try to make Hia! his ) hi of the mountain lis MH bundled lilmself up the best bn could tR ami .e.ituied roilh Into the snow &V! ' ifm, L i I I C ' -r The Judge Wss Stalled In a Dies H Snowdrift. B Thu bllssard had subsided somewhat U but the wind was still blowing a gals M nnd steep drifts of snow wore os H oury hand. Judge Freeman strug K gled nlinli'SVty about all afternoon, hit H ultu being In get us far down the M mountain as iMMslble before nltM H camo on H It was late In Ihe livening and hi M was In u condition borderlug on cow- M pletn eihamtlnii nnd despair when hs gH was seen by James DoMoss, a sheci. ranchman, who was In tho mountains B looking for his flock. DoMoss says aaaasaw tawJI JJistsJiiilsonian.Wiis, ataMed In a l,,,rBB deep siiiiwdrTfT wTierT lmfoiind hlin and (hat he undoubtedly w'nuld have BVJ pcrlshtil there had ho not been dls- covered at that opixirtuna momnnL Judge Kreenmii waa plaecd ii)n Mr. M DeMoss' horse and conveyed to th BVJ altera ranch, where hit was revived. JJ |