ARE THEY GUILTY?
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

of thousands of cattle have been attacked with ophthalmia. According to a recent dispatch from Vienna the entire supply of blue glass in Vienna has been exhausted for this purpose, and it has been necessary to obtain additional supplies from Paris and London. ARE THEY GUILTY? A letter was received in this city from Col. J. Francisco Chavez, superintendent of the peni- tentiary, stating that information had been re- ceived from Mexico that a criminal held in prison for murder had confessed that he was the murderer of the Chinese gardener below this city. It will be remembered by Enterprise readers that about two years ago, the two Chinese gardeners who cultivated the place below the Bremen mill were badly beaten up and robbed by some Mexicans. One of the Chinamen died from his injuries, the other re- covering. Several Mexicans v/ere arrested for the crime, and at the term of court, August last, three of them were convicted for the crime, and are now serving time in the penitentiary at Santa Fe. If the information from Mexico is correct, they are probably not guilty of the crime for which they are serving time, and will doubtless be pardoned. A Serious Charge