James McKnight, who was hit in the head…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

ence thereto. The property and title is now in litiga- tion in the courts, and the status of the same fixing the rights of the undrsigned will be here- after determined. Geo. F. Patrick. Silver City, N. M., August 6th, 1888 From Ihe August 31, 1888, Issue of The Enterprise James McKnight, who was hit in the head with a windlass at Pinos Altos about the first of July, died at the hospital Tuesday, and was buried Wednesday. He was sent to the hospital July 5th, since which time he has been insane, refusing to eat anything except by force. The supreme court of Mexico has approved the death sentence in the case of J. J. Tallier alias Taylor, the leader of the gang of robbers of the Sonora railroad last May, who killed Conductor Atkinson and the fireman. Taylor has probably been shot ere this. The time of execution is never announced in advance. Char- ley Small, who like Taylor, formerly # resided here, has been sentenced to fourteen years of imprisonment for a robbery on the Mexican Central road. Taylor committed murder and Small did not. Central Correspondence Central, N. M., August 27, 1888 To the Editors of The Enterprise : There has been nothing in the way of special news, hence my long silence. Every- thing is running smoothly notwithstanding the attempted blockade.