Dumas Provencher, pioneer marked for death in Valencia County election violence
Deputy Marshal Martin Gallegos [1][2]. The half-inch ball struck Provencher in the aorta, and he fell dead against Gallegos [3][2].
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- Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-05-01 (1891)active in the movement to overthrow the evil men who had for years exercised a reign of terror over “Bloody Valencia," was gentle, gen- erous Dumas Provencher, one of the pioneers of the territory, and he w…
- Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-05-01 (1891)hal, Martin Gallegos, to whisper a warning. Gallegos is hardly more than a boy — a common, illiterate Mexican youth, at whose awkwardness and ignorance most of us would turn up our noses. But that he had in …
- At that very instant there were six hired… (1891)At that very instant there were six hired murderers crouching at the open window; and while Provencher was yet speaking one of them thrust in his old Springfield and fired. The great half-inch ball struck Prov…