years old, promises to be as full of adventure…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

being John Brockman. Last Monday night Lara left his family for the second time, and with the girl Parra started for Whitewater station on foot, where it is supposed the couple took the outging train for El Paso or Mexico. The career of this girl, who is not yet sixteen years old, promises to be as full of adventure as that of the heroine of a startling romance. After her abduction from the Mimbres, by Pilar Perez, who killed her brother and escaped, and who afterwards killed deputy sheriff Hall, she was returned to her parents and for awhile lived in Georgetown. While living at the last named place, she married an American named Wilson. When Perez was captured, she was brought to Silver City and detained in jail as a witness against him, and a short time after- wards Wilson left the country. After the trial and conviction of Perez she was released. This last escapade rather shows that she has acquir- ed a taste for adventure not easily satisfied. The wife of Thomas Alvillar, of Mesilla, has suddenly disappeared. It is the supposition that she has eloped with another man, her hus- band failing to provide for her support. She did just about the proper thing. From ihe March 29, 1889, Issue of The Enierprise