A Jeweler's Adventure
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

, and one of the raiding In- dians afterward said that their party numbered forty-two, and that Knox had killed seven of them.” A Jeweler's Adventure His Fortunate Escape From a Family of Murderers in New Mexico. Extermination of Bloodthirsty Robbers From the New York Dispatch. Campbell Hardy, a Boston, Mass., jeweler, is reported to have related, while in Chicago, 111., recently, some of the experiences he had ten years ago in New Mexico. Mr. Hardy made the money that gave him a start in life by peddling. He traveled through all the far west- ern states, but the most exciting time he ever had, he said was in New Mexico. One day, when much fatigued and hungry, he stopped for dinner at what appeared to be a trapper’s cabin. The house was several miles from any other habitation. He had about $800 worth of stock and $1,200 in money. When he entered the house he discovered that the occu- pants were a man of about sixty, a twenty-five- year-old son, and two women. The appearance of the old man caused Mr. Hardy to distrust him, and he heartily wished