A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 70, 11 September 1880, Page 4

A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.

,S'>;lU : .;: ; .:,1 T ■ - j ;„. Some: days ago it was announced that Mr. John Connolly, who was at one time «m- '. ployed..qn the .La,fhine ? Cunal, at Mr. Davis' section/ ladi been 'tilled bj<the Mexicans. The accounts .of the affair which are] to V ,hand mhpw that;Mr..;(2onnpHy; digdfin^jepmwith two Americans. It seems; that Messrs, Arnold, and Stephen-Jiad. entered 5 into .a contract with the : Trojes* Mining and . Smelting Company of London, England^' jt -whoso nrines. were at Angongei, . m' 1 the State of Michigan, Mexico, » mining: settlement about, 110 milei across the mountains, "westward from the city ;> of Mexico. , They were to .tunne.i „the. mjnej 1 •-and ;T worked harmpniouily" - enough" w|ith everyone for a few weeks. , ;They> were then asked to go over 'to Sehdr ; Sb£e iJ Mayir's mine,;;a short wflji ■to undertake a similar tunnel there. Here were met the/ first unfriendly, greetings, and soon afterwards the fact dawned upon the contractor*, that they;.were unpopular -with the natives,/ who called "them "Yankees." On March' 15/ one of,.the .labourers . refused to wdrk, r! •fed 1 , when""" given ; bir pay <Jf A three reatejabout Is Englijh, he. refused to take it, and j -wanted four. " Connolly refused, and la quarrel ensued, which, ended m the rascal attacking' who fired at him. ,; fch© ;parlj,.;Sayjathat»t,Cpnfc Holly shut himself ;iip iv the hut to b« out of the way, bu^TTas attacked by the man, >s who, beat m the door of the ? hu|; f) wit|i ito^es. then fired thfeeLor four sTiots fEom a revolver over 'the' man's head to frighlten him ; :biit it made 'the' fellow f worie, : and ;- - ariVring a swbrd he" r lished 'tywaVHs '-Con- , nolly, who shotiiihi'in the legs with . a'sHoir*' .ifpn.jinbt fishing, lo-j kill him. A very lexcited crowd of the natives soon surrounded, the wounded man," and threatened to kill all the -Ameri<?anß. One |. man/ drew a sword I Bpohtyonnplly and slashed^him across -jthe shoulder^ 'when J)onnblly; who had jhis •"rovolver hVtiis-hand, fired at his assailent, and m a minute-was attacked by the crojrrd. The " Yankees " " were seperated, Stephen ;is:"gbing'tp the judge ! of the viilige' for ;a'ssistanci/'Tbo latter sent ! a lieutenant and eight-soldiera.to-thp scene; i and when the latter! .?le£tr the 1 -gaol an attack was made upqn, Stephen, who was difficulty saved by being shut up m thVgoal. A large force was ;col^ ■' lected ontthejfollpwing morning, March i 16, and were sent to the scene of the riot. . >; Meantime- the. rioters had caged the Canadian and those who were with him m jthe ; Vl - ad,obejhut ihi which they resided. >a They were surrounded, but not dismayed, jand "A (ftfteiv^bawieading "the, liuty they' did tjieir best m" defending it ;thrbugh ioles jwhicu' they put m the panels. Their assailants, after two or three" HaS been wounded in-tlie" attempt tg f<jrce^he.door,;found it too.jljpfc, and gave up- For a time they were baulked . tiied. iomieof 'fchefmV more fiend islr IBhan \ fcbV i , others,. .'.set. fire ,to the r00f... Smoked put, '•^'CiSnn^llyjTuahed but on the'verandafii and 1 -and seizing 'ad isoharged rifle'from a soldiler's hand, defehcled- himself nobly, all to no purr, .^ptoseS r ."oiie afiier another of the miscrejrifaj had fallen around Connolly, who fought : with his clubbed m asket ; but he could j do little against .such fearful odds. His as|sailants kHpt'at ; arm's letigth 1 bf him, and after rairily trvipg him, the circling noose of a lasso' dropped around his neck :^HanaMie'-Vas pulled to the groundjiand'iiferally^ trampled add stabbed to daatli. Arnolci',l trying to come to. his friend's assistance, was .'Kft^^Kll 0 ? 11 .!"^ 1 a Wo w of a sword, and:; ' ""afterwards stabbed'all over till hardly an j of the flesh on his face and breast were visible. Youmands lay dead, shot through the right . g .|7» l( and; terribly battered with, stones... Qhe coe of r thV f .3purderers, ; named Mbnclragine, was aireste'dj'as'was also the boy who threw the* Jasßo around poor- Connolly's neck.-^O ttavoa ■ Ctiisen, ty&?2o, _. • ; : '-'*