Democrat: One of the men sleeping at the…

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to drink from it, but the well was locked, the key was at the ranch, and he was fortunately unable to get the drink he wanted. If the well was deliberately poisoned every effort should be made to bring the offense home to the doer of it, and punish him most severely. Democrat: One of the men sleeping at the Detroit & Rio Grande Cattle Company’s ranch at Detroit, was awakened on Tuesday night by a woman’s scream. He ran out into the corral to find Mrs. Wallace, the wife of the foreman, lying there bleeding, and her assailant disap- pearing over the fence. It seems that Mr. Wal- lace was away from home that night, and that a man, supposed to be a negro known as “Slick,” had entered Mrs. Wallace’s sleeping- room, struck her on the head with an ax, and carried her out into the corral, where, her screams having aroused one of the men, her would-be ravisher and murderer made off, and, for the time, escaped. Parties at once came down to Las Cruces, swore out a warrant against the negro, and, all the deputies being absent, one of the men was deputized by the sheriff to make the arrest. The negro was over- taken in the bosque at Forte’s Bend above the mouth of the acquias; was caught by one of the men with the deputy, tried to get away, and was shot dead. His body was brought in here yesterday. Great indignation was felt and ex- pressed at the attack on Mrs. Wallace, and great efforts were made and no pains spared to capture her brutal assailant.