Dick Huber came to New Mexico in 1882,…

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ilver City jail you was telling me of and he is one of the fellows we arrested up near Morenci in 1883 for robbing Pomeroy’s stage. He is the one who talked so much and bragged about robbing so many stages.” “What name is he going under now?” asked Henry. “Dick Huber.” Dick Huber came to New Mexico in 1882, and first went to work for Lew Fifer in Hanover gulch. In 1884 he commenced working for Vic Place, at Pinos Altos, and continued in his em- ploy for two years, after which he commenced work for H. G. Noel, on the Mangas, where he remained for about a year. He then com- menced working for Bell & Stephens, at Pinos Altos, and remained in their employ until about two months before the holdup. Sheriff White- hill and the guard at the jail both state that Gray was confined in the jail. It is strange that while Huber was using Gray’s horse for a month or more that Gray did not then recognize him. Gray’s story looks rather fishy. The Enterprise was informed, during the week, by a very reliable gentleman of Silver City, that the justice of peace at Central City was carrying the law out with excessive stringency. As told the Enterprise : “A soldier was fined for some trivial offense, whereat a colored woman remarked on the street “that it would injure the town.’ The justice ordered