It seems that Grant County has one thing…

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It seems that Grant County has one thing to thank Mexican troops for, and that is for “doing up” the Stein’s Pass robbers and saving the expenses of trial here. Recently United States Marshal Meade and a posse who pursued into Mexico, were arrested for crossing the line without authority, but the troops released the officials upon orders from the governor at Chi- huahua. A recent dispatch from Cusihuiriachis, a mining town about ninety miles west of Chi- huahua, states that a party of Mexican federal troops, accompanied by R. H. Paul, of the Southern Pacific railroad company, and Nick Pierce, of the Mexican Central Railroad, who left Chihuahua in pursuit of the robbers, came upon Larry Sheehan, Jim Johnson and Dick Hart one night at 7 o’clock, about twenty miles northwest of Cusihuiriachis. The robbers barri- caded themselves in a house, compelling the family to remain within and stood the attacking party off until noon, when the beseigers suc- ceeded in getting the family out of the house and then set fire to it. The robbers proved themselves game by coming out fighting. A regular battle occurred between the authorities and train robbers in which all the robbers, Sheehan, Johnson and Hart, were killed. The attacking party lost one man, a sargeant of the Mexican troops.