yet on the body…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

he remains of a dead man, apparently dried up, as no scent of decay came from them, and indicating that they had been in the well for a considerable length of time. A straw hat lay near the body, but from the surface there was no means of identification. The clothes were yet on the body. Whether the remains were of a white or colored man it was impossible to tell. A pole some ten feet in length stood in the bot- tom of the well by which means it seemed the unfortunate man had attempted to escape from his awful situation. He probably starved to death in his lonely and living tomb. From the October 18, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise A dispatch of the 12th instant from Guay- mas states that only a few minutes before the time set for the execution of J. K. Taylor, held for train robbing, a message was received from the authorities at the City of Mexico ordering a suspension of the execution, and Taylor still lives. He made a desperate effort at suicide, and on the day set for his execution he was unable to stand on his feet. The writer remem- bers Taylor, when he was a partner with G. W. M. Carvil of this city, as happy, easy going young man, with an honest, though reckless face. He was kind and generous, and must have changed greatly since leaving here, or else he is not guilty of the crime charged against him.