While Pete Jochem was in Lordsburg one…

chunk 376 · paragraph 1320

n who stated that the total amount of the find was $600. It is thought that there is more buried treasure in and around Pinos Altos. While Pete Jochem was in Lordsburg one night last week, some thief rode his horse off, going towards Mexico. They are getting pretty bold. Judge McFie recalled the grand jury on Wednesday morning and gave them a special charge regarding the prevalent practice of pro- curing the absence, and bribing to prevent testi- fying of important and necessary witnesses in criminal cases. Referring to a recent incident in which two material witnesses were furnished by friends of an accused criminal with tickets and railroad fare to leave the territory. The ends of justice have been defeated in many cases by this practice, and a few indictments and convictions for offenses of this character against the law will have a tendency to check it. A miner named H. D. Adam, who came to Bisbee from Kingston, New Mexico, committed suicide in that camp lately by taking 60 grains of morphine. He had been drinking and gambling much of late, and told some of his friends that he intended to end his life, but they thought he was joking and passed it off without serious thought. When found he was alive, but nothing could be done to save him. He was about forty years of age.