more  convicts  made  their  escape 
from  the  territorial  penitentiary  at  Santa  Fe  on 
Monday  last.  It  was  at  4 o’clock  in  the  after- 
noon when  the  break  was  made,  and  four  horses 
at  work  in  the  brick  yard  were  captured,  the 
convicts  holding  up  the  drivers  with  wooden 
pistols.  The  guards  seemed  paralyzed  with 
fear,  but  after  the  convicts  had  gotten  out  of 
the  enclosure,  one  of  the  guards  fired  and 
winged  James  Gould,  who  was  recently  re- 
captured on  the  Sapello  and  returned  to  the 
pen.  Gould’s  horse  became  frightened  and 
threw  him,  and  his  capture  was  effected.  The 
break  was  made  by  the  notorious  Lee  White, 
who  with  Petronilo  Rivera  and  Francisco  Pa- 
dilla succeeded  in  making  good  their  escape. 
Their  capture  could  have  been  effected  easily, 
even  after  they  had  gotten  beyond  the  enclo- 
sure, had  the  guards  shown  the  slightest  dili- 
gence. The  penitentiary  board  was  in  session 
at  the  time,  and  the  members  were  eye-wit- 
nesses to  the  escape.  Colonel  Chaves,  the  war- 
den, almost  immediately  resigned,  and  a new 
warden  will  be  appointed.  The  three  men  who 
escaped  are  all  vicious  scoundrels.  White  was 
in  for  seven  years  for  robberies  and  hold-ups 
in  south  Santa  Fe  county;  Padilla  murdered 
his  wife  at  Socorro,  and  Rivera  was  in  for  a 
heinious  crime — he  cut  a man’s  throat  in  Dona 
Ana  county  and  afterwards  disemboweled  his 
victim;  both  were  in  for  life.