| Show BLOOD FOR BLOOD A Desperate Mountain Outlaw i Shot Dead by the Laws I Avengers Nihilist Subscription MethodsCanada in the Spring TImeEnglish Libel Law Mexicans Murder a United States Soldier on a United States Reservation Reserva-tion Wholesale Murder An Outlaws Death SANTA FE March 3OIt was reported hero last night that Marino Leyba a notorious no-torious outlaw desperado and the leader of the gang who llrroriz d New Mexico for six months had been killed wJiile resisting ar rest near Antelope Springs seventy miles south from here The report was confirmed today by the arrival of Jbaquim Monteria and Carlos Jaconie with the body They were deputized by Sheriff Chavez of Santa Fe county to make the arrest and met Leyba on a mountain trail while on the lookout for him When ordered to surren der the outlaw pulled his pistol and Mon terea and Jaoome drew theirs The three shots sounded like one Monterea got a bullet through the hat but Leyba fell dead at his feet shot through the head Leyba led the gang that murdered Colonel Charles Potter the stepson of Governor Van Zandt of Rhode Island in the Dolores moun tains in 1880 and buried the body after taking several hundred dollars from it Four of the gang were captured by Sheriff Armitago and taken to Alburquerque where they were lynched Leyba the fifth mem ber hid in the mountains but came out and began operations again after all the witnesses wit-nesses were dead He was afterwards convicted con-victed for stealing and sent up five years in the penitentiary When discharged six months ago he immediately returned to the flourishing mining country and reorganized another gang Their last outrage of mur der and robbery was that of Lackey and Tesier near Antelope springs These men owned twenty thousand sheep down there Lackev was fnnnd killprl in his house and his body burned and Tesier i was shot in the back while running Two of the Leyba gang wore arrested for the murder and are now held for trial A reward re-ward of 1200 was offered for Leyba His death will break up the gang A great many people visited Santa Fe jail today and viewed the body The people of Southern New Mexico are greatly pleased over the death of tne outlaw and are thoroughly organized for the suppression of the rest of the band |
