While Serna was begging them to keep…
source date: 1889
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shut up and behave when another Mexican whose name is not known came out of the “baile” and also commenced to abuse him. While Serna was begging them to keep quiet, the Mexican, whose name is unknown, drew a pistol on Serna, who ran back into the dark and was shot at. Serna then fell on the ground pretending to be dead and two more shots were fired at him. He then arose and firing, shot his adver- sary who only lived a few hours. Before he died he made a dying confession, and in it stated that Pedro Miranda had hired him to kill Serna. Miranda is now under bond to appear be- fore the justice of the peace court at Colorado, and in all probability will be bound over to wait the action of the grand jury. One of the Lordsburg saloon keepers has evolved a new scheme to beat “David P. Carr’s woman in the saloon law.” He backed the piano around to the window and hired the woman to stand out doors, reach through the window and thump the ivories. Seven wagons were loaded in one day last week in this city for the Mogollon country. From the November 15, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise