Dolores Salcido – Unprovoked Murder at Pinos Altos (1888)
**DOLORES SALCIDO** (also known as Dolores Salaiz) is a peaceable Mexican teamster whose murder near Pinos Altos on August 3, 1888, was reported as unprovoked [1][2]. Carson objected to sitting at the table with Mexicans [1]. Feasel told Carson to depart, but Salcido, who had a family in town, resented Carson’s attitude and the pair quarreled a day or two before the killing [1]. On Tuesday, the talk was renewed and Carson fired a fatal shot into Salcido’s mouth [1][2]. The deceased was a teamster of a peaceable nature [2]. Carson, elderly with partially gray hair and beard habitually dyed, was considered dangerous and disappeared, supposed to have left the country [2].
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- Unprovoked Murder (1888)Unprovoked Murder There was a murder at Coomer’s saw mill, near Pinos Altos, last Tuesday, which, so far as heard, seems to have been unprovoked. The circumstances, as reported, were about as fol- lows: A Texan …
- Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1888-08-03 (1888)Flag- ler, had ordered him to hold the house with his life, so says Curry. McAllister fired a second shot which struck Woodward in the foot, and made a painful wound. McAllister has been arrested. Dr. Stephe…