Carlsbad Current, 1899-09-02

gun of tho I'omluplor null It Is feared thnt blood-poisoning has set In and thnt ho will dlo tho samo ns his brother, Hnni Kctohum, did at tho tiunilenllniy from n wound In tlio shoulder, n short tlmo ago, MherlfT Ktowart, aftur nisistlng In delivering tho two men nt tho penitentiary, loft Inst night lor Kddy county. Tom Ketehum was' taken in chnrgo by United Slates Marshal Koraker nt Trini Trinidad, - dad, Trinidad, whero tho outlaw was In tho hospltnl. Ketehum refuted tn hnve his arm ainpataU ednnd attempted suloldo. Ho first asked for a revolver with whloh to shoot himself, nml when thnt was refused, took tho bnml bnml-ogoa - ogoa bnml-ogoa from his nrni) when nlono wrnpd them around hi ncek and put his foot into tho loop, trying to stratiglo himself. Ho was uiinonsclous when found nml It was two hours'holoro ho regalnfol conscious consciousness. - ness. consciousness. At first ho was sullen and surly but Inter beenmo tnlkntlvo nml told M inhnl Fnrnkor thnt he hnd committed n number of robberies, but was not with his brother when tho recent trnln robbery near l'ol l'ol-som - som l'ol-som was committed. In fnet ho did not know thnt his brother was dead until Manual Koraker told him. "If I had known that tho trnln hnd been held up nenr Fnlsnm only n short tuno before, 1 would not Imvo mndo tho attempt a se second - cond second tlmo," snld Ketehum to Korakor. Mnrshnl Fornker Is convinced thnt Ket Ketehum - ehum Ketehum Is tho orlginnl lllack Jack. Ketehum at first gnvo his name as Thomas Stevens but admitted Inter being Tom Ketehum. Ho snld when nrrestcd thnt tho affair at Folsom wns hU first attempt at train rob robbing - bing robbing and that he was formerly a peacenblo cowboy nnd was alono In the hold up. Hut ho ndmlttcd Inter having had accomplices in tho last bold up nt Folsom. McClintils wns n non-communicative prisoner. lloth prisoners woro given a hearing this forenoon nt tho penitentiary by U. S. Com Commissioner - missioner Commissioner J. I. Victory. Tho prisoners waived exnmlnntlon on tho luminal chnrgo nt Interfering with tho United Mtntes malt and were asked to fur furnish - nish furnish 01,000 bond for their nppcaranco at court. More serious charges will bo made later. Itlsrelnted Hint thu brothor of tho Ket Ket-chum's - chum's Ket-chum's at Kan Atigelo, Tex., snmo months ago supplied Tom and Sam Ketehum with money to stnrt In tho cattle business In

A Murderer Captured, Six years ago .lulinn Flro, a goat hunter, oallcd nt the home of John (Jrahnm, who lives in Now Meileo a short dlitaiieo (mm tho Southern l'aHflo rnilway brldgo, and told tils young son that if ho would aoeoiic pnny him to where his herd of gnats wero ho would give him a ynting gnt. This the boy did. Not returning 11 senruh was in instituted - stituted instituted and he wus found some little ill' ill'-laiioo - laiioo ill'-laiioo from home, bnvlng been murdered by Flro, who had beaten his head Into an unrecognizable tunas. Flro disnppesred nnd all trace of him was lost until n few days ago when tho sheriffs ofllco wns noti