SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT SAN JUAN
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

e tried before Justice Givens and fined $5 and costs each. The case was a very aggra- vated one and it seems a peculiar construction of the law when the minimum penalty is as- sessed against the most audacious law breaker, for whose benefit the severer penalties were enacted. There are several hold-ups in town. Throw up your hands. ( 24 ) SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT SAN JUAN Charles Gamble was severely hurt at 10 o’clock last Tuesday by a horse falling upon him. He in company with two others were riding rapidly toward his home at San Juan on the Mimbres river when his horse stumbled and fell with him. Those with him brought him home where he lay unconscious till 5 o’clock p.m. when the messenger came to Silver City in search of a doctor. Dr. Kimball of Cooney, who happened to be in town, left at midnight on Tuesday to attend the patient since which time nothing farther has been learned. EDITORS NOTE: 10-15-65 It is known that he died as result of the accident. Mr. Gamble was the father of Sudie, Mrs. Louis Jones of Glenwood; and Emmy, Mrs. Joe Porter, of Apache Creek. Sudie told me that her father owned what is now the NAN Ranch, on the Mimbres, and that he was buried in the cemetery on Lower Mimbres, just beside the road to Deming. In December, 1962, Carl Mrotzek and I went to the cemetery and placed the Gamble tombstone upright.