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<v Speaker 1>Palpuler dot com, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December fourteenth, nineteen sixteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Clyde d Armour of Sioux City, Iowa is believed to

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<v Speaker 2>have been murdered somewhere between here and Wagon Mound by

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<v Speaker 2>a mysterious unknown motor companion who later posed his armor

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<v Speaker 2>in Santa Fe, secured money under the name, and vanished.

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<v Speaker 2>Armour is five feet eleven inches tall, athletic build, light

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<v Speaker 2>brown hair, blue eyes, clean shaven, weight one hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>sixty to one hundred and sixty five in his thirties.

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<v Speaker 2>When last heard of, he wore a business suit and cap,

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<v Speaker 2>dark flannel shirt, collar fastened with pearl buttons, and a

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<v Speaker 2>dark tie. He was chief clerk in the passenger depot

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<v Speaker 2>of the Northwestern Railroad at Sioux City. Roy and Glen

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<v Speaker 2>Armour of Sioux City, Iowa arrived here today in search

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<v Speaker 2>of trace of their brother, Clyde d Armour, who started

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<v Speaker 2>for Fresno, California, from Denver, Colorado, October twenty second, in

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<v Speaker 2>an automobile with a traveling companion name unknown, who responded

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<v Speaker 2>to an advertisement in a Denver paper. The car was

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<v Speaker 2>an eight cylinder oldsmobile. Armor was heard of at Trinidad

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<v Speaker 2>the same evening and next day at Wagonmound, New Mexico,

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<v Speaker 2>where he was reported to be with the unknown man.

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<v Speaker 2>On the night of October twenty third, a young man

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<v Speaker 2>answering the description of Armour's traveling companion, arrived in Santa Fe,

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<v Speaker 2>registered at a local hotel as Clyde d. Armour, wired

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<v Speaker 2>Armour's relatives and succeeded in getting them to send them

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<v Speaker 2>five hundred dollars. He was about twenty five years old,

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<v Speaker 2>five feet nine inches, light hair, and well groomed. Armour's

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<v Speaker 2>brothers say the hand rise of the telegrams copies of

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<v Speaker 2>which they saw here is not that of their brother.

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<v Speaker 2>They are confident the mysterious stranger murdered their brother. They

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<v Speaker 2>learned today that the impostor was last seen in Albuquerque

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<v Speaker 2>on October thirtieth or thirty first, when he sold the

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<v Speaker 2>Oldsmobile to Harry Hammond and Odie Dyer of that city

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<v Speaker 2>and boarded a train for California.

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<v Speaker 3>True crime Historian presents an Eye for an Eye, a

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<v Speaker 3>special edition of Yesterday's News exploring the criminal justice system

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<v Speaker 3>at its most extreme, inflicting the death penalty. Episode three

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<v Speaker 3>hundred and seventy three tells the story of two young

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<v Speaker 3>men who go on a road trip together, but only

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<v Speaker 3>one of them makes it as far as Santa Fe,

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<v Speaker 3>and he pretends to be the other. In the meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 3>an Iowa family goes on a desperate hunt for their

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<v Speaker 3>missing brother. I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and

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<v Speaker 3>for your horror and indignation, I give you mystery Tour

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<v Speaker 3>in a Buick eight. The Vanishing of Clyde Armor. September

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<v Speaker 3>twenty ninth, nineteen sixteen, Clyde E Arthur, aged thirty two,

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<v Speaker 3>leaves Siue City, Iowa, his home with his mother and

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<v Speaker 3>sister for Fresno, California, traveling in a new eight cylinder

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<v Speaker 3>fourteen hundred dollars Odesmobilectober seventh, Miss Agnes Armour, his sister,

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<v Speaker 3>is taken ill at Clark, Nebraska, where she goes to

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<v Speaker 3>a hospital for a week. Accompanied by her mother, Clyde

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<v Speaker 3>e Armour proceeds to Denver by motor. October nineteenth. Clyde

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<v Speaker 3>e Armour appeals to YMCA and Denver for aid to

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<v Speaker 3>find a suitable traveling companion to motor with them to Fresno, California.

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<v Speaker 3>No one is available.

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<v Speaker 2>October twentieth, Clyde E Armour inserts an ad in the

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<v Speaker 2>Denver Post stating he seeks a young man who will

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<v Speaker 2>motor with him to the coast, paying his own hotel expenses.

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<v Speaker 2>October twenty first, A young man about Armour's age and

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<v Speaker 2>build replies and is accepted. He shows ability to drive

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<v Speaker 2>a car, which suits mister Armour, who desires to spend

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<v Speaker 2>his time in seeing the country. October twenty second, Clyde

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<v Speaker 2>E Armour and his companion leave Denver and arrive the

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<v Speaker 2>same night in Trinidad, Colorado. October twenty third, noon, Armor

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<v Speaker 2>and companion arrive in Wagonmound, New Mexico, where they are

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<v Speaker 2>seen by several people. Armour also mails a postcard showing

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<v Speaker 2>a picture of himself beside a motor to a brother

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<v Speaker 2>in Dakota City, Nebraska. The card is postmarked San Jose,

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<v Speaker 2>New Mexico, a short distance from Las Vegas. October twenty third,

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<v Speaker 2>Monday night, a young man representing himself as ce Armour

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<v Speaker 2>arrives in Santa Fe alone in an oldsmobile registered at

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<v Speaker 2>the Montezuma Hotel, takes room twenty five and sends a

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<v Speaker 2>telegram which he has charged October twenty fourth to twenty seventh,

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<v Speaker 2>a man representing himself to be ce Armour plays high

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<v Speaker 2>jinks in Santa Fe, later taking several people out odoring

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<v Speaker 2>to Albuquerque. In return. While here he spends large sums

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<v Speaker 2>of money on drink et cetera. October twenty seventh. Ce

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<v Speaker 2>Armor wires Myron L. Sawyer, brother in law, in Fresno, California,

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<v Speaker 2>for money for repairs on motor car. October twenty eighth,

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<v Speaker 2>a young man representing himself to be CE Armor cuts

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<v Speaker 2>a wide swath in Albuquerque, spending large sums of money

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<v Speaker 2>in saloons and hotels. October twenty ninth, same young man

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<v Speaker 2>sells Oldsmobile car almost new for five hundred dollars to

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<v Speaker 2>two Albuquerque men. October thirtieth, same young man leaves at

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<v Speaker 2>night on Pullman for Los Angeles, taking no baggage with him,

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<v Speaker 2>but saying he has told hotel clerk to send it

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<v Speaker 2>after him. October thirty first, a man who signs himself

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<v Speaker 2>CE Armor wires Missus Mary E. Armor of Fresno, California, quote,

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<v Speaker 2>have sold car coming on train unquote. November thirteenth, Missus

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<v Speaker 2>Armor worried at son's delay starts investigation her son in law,

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<v Speaker 2>Myron L. Sawyer of Fresno, a Santa Fe Railway official,

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<v Speaker 2>visiting Needles and Albuquerque to get information on ce Armour.

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<v Speaker 2>Never suspecting foul play and imposition, he makes a four

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<v Speaker 2>page written report to C. E. Armour's brother, but finds

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<v Speaker 2>no trace of Clyde E. Armor. November seventeenth or thereabouts,

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<v Speaker 2>Myron L. Sawyer visits Los Angeles and San Diego in

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<v Speaker 2>search of his brother in law, but without success. December fourteenth,

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<v Speaker 2>Glen Armor of Dakota City, Nebraska and Roy Armor of Hubbard,

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<v Speaker 2>Nebraska arrive in Santa Fe and consult with attorney Melvin T.

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<v Speaker 2>Dunlovy about the fate of their brother, declaring that signatures

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<v Speaker 2>on the Montezuma Hotel register of October twenty third is

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<v Speaker 2>a forgery. They say their brother was undoubtedly murdered and

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<v Speaker 2>an impostor has been at work, getting at least four

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<v Speaker 2>hundred dollars in money from their mother and selling a

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<v Speaker 2>car for five hundred dollars, which some he pocketed. December fifteenth,

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<v Speaker 2>police and detectives in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and

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<v Speaker 2>Iowa are put to work on the strange disappearance of

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<v Speaker 2>Clyde E. Armor, and a reward is offered for any

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<v Speaker 2>information leading to the recovery of his body. The identity

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<v Speaker 2>of the alleged murderer of Clyde E. Armoor Railway chief

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<v Speaker 2>clerk at Sioux City, Iowa, is believed to have been

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<v Speaker 2>ascertained this afternoon, when an inspection of the register of

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<v Speaker 2>the Troy Hotel in Las Vegas revealed that E. W.

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<v Speaker 2>Blansett registered with Clyde E. Armour on the night of

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<v Speaker 2>October twenty second. This is the first information obtained concerning

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<v Speaker 2>the identity of the Denver man who replied to the

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<v Speaker 2>advertisement placed in the Denver post by Clyde Armour seeking

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<v Speaker 2>a traveling motor companion to Fresno, California. Both young men

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<v Speaker 2>registered Fresno, California after their names. While the name E. W.

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<v Speaker 2>Blansett may be fictitious, still it is a striking coincidence

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<v Speaker 2>that when the postor representing himself as Armor arrived at

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<v Speaker 2>the Montezuma Hotel the night of October twenty third and

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<v Speaker 2>was handed a pen by the clerk of the hotel,

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<v Speaker 2>he wrote E as the initial of his first name.

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<v Speaker 2>Then hurriedly changed it to a C. The curious double

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<v Speaker 2>letter may be seen at the hotel register, now kept

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<v Speaker 2>in a vault by the management of the Montezuma Hotel.

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<v Speaker 2>The discovery that Clyde Armour and his alleged murderer were

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<v Speaker 2>in Las Vegas the night of October twenty second is

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<v Speaker 2>a confirmation of the theory of Attorney Melvin Dunlevy and

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<v Speaker 2>the brothers of Clyde Armor that the missing man got

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<v Speaker 2>past Las Vegas on his way to Santa Fe. It

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<v Speaker 2>seems certain now that Clyde Armour reached San Jose this

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<v Speaker 2>side of Las Vegas, where he mailed a postcard to

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<v Speaker 2>his sister. The discovery that Clyde Armour passed through Las

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<v Speaker 2>Vegas will materially reduce the miles of country which will

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<v Speaker 2>have to be gone over in order to find the

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<v Speaker 2>body of the young man supposed to have been dead

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<v Speaker 2>over six weeks. Mister Dunlevy and his party, consisting of

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<v Speaker 2>the Armor brothers and an interpreter, which left this morning

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<v Speaker 2>by motor to scour the woods from here to San Jose,

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<v Speaker 2>are expected to return to the city late tonight up

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<v Speaker 2>to four o'clock. This afternoon. No word had been heard

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<v Speaker 2>from them by wire or phone, but no message was

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<v Speaker 2>expected as to their success or failure until their return here.

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<v Speaker 2>A long distance phone call from Las Vegas to the

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<v Speaker 2>Santa Fe, New Mexican this afternoon stated that the people

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<v Speaker 2>in Las Vegas are much interested in the murder, and

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<v Speaker 2>several of them recall the arrival in that city of

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<v Speaker 2>Armour and Blancet. Every effort will be made to find

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<v Speaker 2>any trace of the missing man or around Las Vegas.

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<v Speaker 2>Was Clyde E Armour, aged thirty two, single railway chief

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<v Speaker 2>clerk of Sioux City, Iowa, carefully brought up by his

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<v Speaker 2>mother and reared under the influence of the YMCA, murdered

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<v Speaker 2>in cold blood as he was motoring with the strange

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<v Speaker 2>companion from Wagonmound to Santa Fe on the afternoon of

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<v Speaker 2>October twenty third, and was the young man, also in

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<v Speaker 2>the early thirties, about the height or perhaps two inches

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<v Speaker 2>taller of Clyde E Armour, who registered at the Montezuma

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<v Speaker 2>Hotel in the night of October twenty third as armor

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<v Speaker 2>and was assigned Room twenty five. The murderer, who impersonated

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<v Speaker 2>the sious city man for the purpose of robbing his

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<v Speaker 2>relatives of some four hundred dollars and then selling his

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<v Speaker 2>car for five hundred dollars. Or was Clyde e Armour,

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<v Speaker 2>hard working railway clerk of Sioux's City, carefully brought up

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<v Speaker 2>by his mother an influence for good by the YMCA,

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<v Speaker 2>a victim of what psychologists call an hysterical explosion resulting

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<v Speaker 2>in mental confusion, even to the extent of donning a

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<v Speaker 2>double personality, as described by the author of Doctor Jekyll

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<v Speaker 2>and Mister Hyde. Did this mental confusion suddenly transfer this amiable, moral, temperate,

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<v Speaker 2>honest young man into a dissolute, thieving fellow who took

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<v Speaker 2>midnight joy rides with questionable company, who drank so much

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<v Speaker 2>that when he sought a shave at a local barbershop

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<v Speaker 2>he had to be propped up three times during the operation,

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<v Speaker 2>who spent money like a young Pittsburgh millionaire, and who

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<v Speaker 2>finally departed just eight days after he landed in New

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<v Speaker 2>Mexico with a ticket for Los Angeles in one hand

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<v Speaker 2>and no baggage in the other. These are the questions

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<v Speaker 2>that are puzzling Santa Feans and others who read yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>in the New Mexican of the strange case of Clyde E. Armour,

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<v Speaker 2>perhaps the strangest case that has come to the attention

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<v Speaker 2>of the people of the Capitol in many decades. No,

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<v Speaker 2>my brother was not the dissolute, the intemperate man who

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<v Speaker 2>flew around Santa Fe. Toward the end of October, declared

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<v Speaker 2>Glen Armour, an older brother of Dakota City, Nebraska, as

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<v Speaker 2>he sat in the office of State Senator Melvin T.

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<v Speaker 2>Dunlevy in the Laughlin Building and unfolded a startling tale

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<v Speaker 2>of alleged murder, robbery, intemperance, and deception. Quote. Clyde was

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<v Speaker 2>always a temperate, careful good boy. But the queer actions

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<v Speaker 2>of the young man who came to Santa Fe and

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<v Speaker 2>registered in Clyde's name, who forged Clyde's name to the

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<v Speaker 2>hotel registers and telegrams, had even some of my relatives fooled.

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<v Speaker 2>They almost believed that poor Clyde had gone dippy and

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<v Speaker 2>become drink crazed and fast. That's why this shocking murder

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<v Speaker 2>has not been discovered, and that is why the murderer

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<v Speaker 2>is today roaming around god knows where without handcuffs. Mister

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<v Speaker 2>Armour said that he recognized the possibility of any young man,

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<v Speaker 2>especially one who has worked for months in an office,

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<v Speaker 2>of getting a little boisterous went out on a trip.

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<v Speaker 2>But my brother has traveled so much using railroad passes,

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<v Speaker 2>that he was thoroughly familiar with the West. He had

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<v Speaker 2>been away from Sioux City again and again. He never

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<v Speaker 2>behaved in an improper manner. And only when I received

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<v Speaker 2>a report of the curious conduct of the young man

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<v Speaker 2>who visited Santa Fe and Albuquerque, painting both cities read

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<v Speaker 2>that I declared, as did my brother, Roy Armor of Hubbard, Nebraska,

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<v Speaker 2>that these actions were not those of Clyde Armor, but

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<v Speaker 2>an impostor. Mister Armor admitted that he has greatly puzzled

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<v Speaker 2>that at least five prominent men in Albuquerque declared to

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<v Speaker 2>be his brother in law. Mister Sawyer of Fresno, California,

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<v Speaker 2>that the description of Clyde Armor fitted that of the

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<v Speaker 2>young man who was buying wine and whiskey for scores

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<v Speaker 2>of people in saloons and hotels in Albuquerque, and who

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<v Speaker 2>was taking his newly made friends out joy riding. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a case of mistaken identity, said mister Armour. The young

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<v Speaker 2>men were nearly the same age, nearly the same height,

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<v Speaker 2>both blondes, and no doubt my poor brother was murdered

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<v Speaker 2>by this impostor. He was robbed by some of his

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<v Speaker 2>clothes and his cap to facilitate the deception. Mister Armer

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<v Speaker 2>said he is convinced that his brother's body is now

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<v Speaker 2>lying under the pinion trees somewhere near the road from

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<v Speaker 2>San Jose to Santa Fe, and that it has been

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<v Speaker 2>lying there since the afternoon of October twenty third quote.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's my theory. My brother arrived in Denver with the

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<v Speaker 2>Oldsmobile carr He went to the YMCA asking whether the

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<v Speaker 2>officials there knew of any young man who would like

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<v Speaker 2>to accompany him to Fresno, California, paying his own expenses,

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<v Speaker 2>just for the pleasure of the trip. We have letters

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<v Speaker 2>from Clyde telling us much no young man was recommended.

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<v Speaker 2>Then Clyde had the misfortune to advertise for a companion,

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<v Speaker 2>and a strange young man about whom he knew absolutely nothing,

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<v Speaker 2>showed up and said he would like to make the

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<v Speaker 2>trip on the way from Denver to Wagonmound. This stranger,

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<v Speaker 2>this impostor, this murderer, talked to my brother and found

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<v Speaker 2>that he had a number of papers with him showing

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<v Speaker 2>the place of residence of his mother in California. He

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<v Speaker 2>also found out where he had purchased the Oldsmobile car

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<v Speaker 2>from mister Schoburg of Sioux City. I believe that this

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<v Speaker 2>impostor lured my brother away from the car after they

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<v Speaker 2>had passed San Jose, telling him he had seen some game.

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<v Speaker 2>There were two guns and a revolver in the car

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<v Speaker 2>for Clyde Love to hunt from the road. This impostor

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<v Speaker 2>took a shot of my brother, in my opinion, and

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<v Speaker 2>killed him in cold blood, leaving the body in a canyon,

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<v Speaker 2>probably stripped off the coat and cap, and proceeded on

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<v Speaker 2>his way here to Santa Fe. Arriving in Santa Fe,

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<v Speaker 2>as far as I've been able to ascertain, the impostor

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<v Speaker 2>put up the Oldsmobile car he had stolen at a

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<v Speaker 2>garage on Don Gasper Avenue. There he met a man e. A. Leavenworth,

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<v Speaker 2>representing the Northwestern Life Insurance Company, who had seen them

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<v Speaker 2>in Wagonmound. The impostor was asked where his companion was,

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<v Speaker 2>and he replied, I left that son of a gun

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<v Speaker 2>and Wagonmound. We didn't get on that well. Then it

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<v Speaker 2>was the impostor began to carry out the deception concerning

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<v Speaker 2>his identity. He walked to the Montezuma and took a room.

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<v Speaker 2>When he registered, he began to write the letter E, but,

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<v Speaker 2>remembering that would not do, changed to E into a C,

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<v Speaker 2>which is the way Clyde registered, simply C E E armor,

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<v Speaker 2>he added Sioux City, Iowa. Arriving in Santa Fe, the

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<v Speaker 2>impostor found himself short of money. The Montezuma Hotel register

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<v Speaker 2>shows that ten dollars was advanced CE armor, and knowing

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<v Speaker 2>our mother's address, this murderer wired her in Fresno for

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred and fifty dollars. This telegram was not delivered, however,

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<v Speaker 2>until October thirtieth, as mother was out at the ranch

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<v Speaker 2>some miles from Fresno. The impostor waited three days, and then,

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<v Speaker 2>growing desperate for money, probably having spent all he found

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<v Speaker 2>on my brother's body, wired on October twenty seventh to

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<v Speaker 2>my brother in law, mister Sawyer. This wire was sent

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<v Speaker 2>from Albuquerque and stated that one hundred and fifty dollars

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<v Speaker 2>was needed immediately to pay for repairs of the car,

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<v Speaker 2>and he added that the money should be sent to Magdalena,

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<v Speaker 2>New Mexico. Mister Sawyer wired one hundred and fifty dollars,

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<v Speaker 2>but that sum was not delivered for reasons that were

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<v Speaker 2>later apparent. After flying around Albuquerque, this impostor spent so

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<v Speaker 2>much money that he decided it was necessary to sell

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<v Speaker 2>the car. He disposed of the Oldsmobile for five hundred

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<v Speaker 2>dollars to Odi Dyer, desk clerk at the Combs Hotel, Albuquerque,

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<v Speaker 2>and to Hanlan. I understand these men later sold it

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<v Speaker 2>to an Elpaso man for seven hundred dollars. They undoubtedly

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<v Speaker 2>bought it in good faith, for it appears that they

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<v Speaker 2>or someone wired to the Oldsmobile dealer mister Schoburg and

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<v Speaker 2>Sioux City, Iowa, asking whether a car, if such make

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<v Speaker 2>and number, had been sold originally to C. E. Armor.

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<v Speaker 2>A telegram came back and replied that C. E. Armor

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<v Speaker 2>was the rightful possessor of the car. Then this impostor

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<v Speaker 2>decided to beat it to Los Angeles and bought a

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<v Speaker 2>ticket to that city. We know that there was only

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<v Speaker 2>one ticket sold in Albuquerque the night of October twenty third,

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<v Speaker 2>farther west than flag Staff, and the records show it

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<v Speaker 2>was to Los ane Angelis. Moreover, there were two men,

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<v Speaker 2>a mister Hall and a mister Rich, who saw the

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<v Speaker 2>impostor board the pullman in Albuquerque for the Pacific Coast

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<v Speaker 2>arrived at Needles. The impostor had the nerve to wire

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<v Speaker 2>my mother have sold car coming on train, no doubt,

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<v Speaker 2>to quiet her fears as to her son's whereabouts, so

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<v Speaker 2>as to give him more time to get away. Mister

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<v Speaker 2>Armer explained that the plan of the impostor was carried

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<v Speaker 2>out successfully. Missus Armor did not notify the police and

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<v Speaker 2>put no detectives on the trail of the man who

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<v Speaker 2>had been wiring to her for money in her son's name.

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<v Speaker 2>She waited patiently for the young man who had left

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<v Speaker 2>her at Clark's, Nebraska, and had written interesting letters from

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<v Speaker 2>Denver and had sent her postcards from Trinidad, Colorado, Wagon Mound,

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<v Speaker 2>and San Jose, New Mexico. He had not asked for

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<v Speaker 2>any financial aid until he reached Santa Fe. The telegrams

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<v Speaker 2>from Santa Fe said indicated that the trip from Colorado

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<v Speaker 2>had been so severe that extensive repairs to the automobile

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<v Speaker 2>were necessary, and several weeks delay here were anticipated by

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<v Speaker 2>mister C. E. Armor Finally, after awaiting two weeks, Missus

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<v Speaker 2>Armor became so alarmed about the actions of the man

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<v Speaker 2>she believed to be her son, she communicated with mister Sawyer,

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<v Speaker 2>her son in law, and he started an investigation. Mister

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<v Speaker 2>Sawyer took the first train to Needles, where he looked

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<v Speaker 2>at the telegram sent from that place telling of the

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<v Speaker 2>sale of the automobile. He could not identify the handwriting,

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<v Speaker 2>for Clyde wrote a clear clerical hand, whereas the writing

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<v Speaker 2>of the message was rather rough. But supposing that the

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<v Speaker 2>young man perhaps had been under the weather, mister Sawyer

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<v Speaker 2>proceeded to Albuquerque. It was after he inquired around that

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<v Speaker 2>city as to the conduct of ce Armor that mister

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<v Speaker 2>Sawyer became more or less disgusted. He decided to keep

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<v Speaker 2>the matter as quiet as possible, for he did not

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<v Speaker 2>wish to hurt the feelings of Clyde's mother by telling

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<v Speaker 2>her that the young man had been spending money like

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<v Speaker 2>water and indulging in drinks much stronger. So mister Sawyer

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<v Speaker 2>gathered all the information he could, talked with various people

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<v Speaker 2>who described his brother in law to a tea. Then

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<v Speaker 2>he sat down and wrote a four page letter to

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<v Speaker 2>Glen Armour, Clyde's brother. After Roy Armour read the letter,

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<v Speaker 2>he rushed over to see his brother Glenn and Hubbard, Nebraska,

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<v Speaker 2>and they read and re read the letter, finally exclaiming,

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<v Speaker 2>our brother has been murdered and this man is an impostor,

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<v Speaker 2>and now the search has begun for the body of

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<v Speaker 2>Clyde E Armour, who is believed by his family to

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<v Speaker 2>have been cut down in the prime of young manhood

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<v Speaker 2>to satisfy the money craving instincts of a fast, unscrupulous

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<v Speaker 2>young man, now a fugitive from justice whom the police

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<v Speaker 2>are seeking all over the Southwest on the charge of

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<v Speaker 2>murder in the first degree. Attorney Melvin T. Dunlevy, accompanied

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<v Speaker 2>by Roy Armour and Glen Armour and James Chavez of

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<v Speaker 2>this city as an interpreter, started out by motor at

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<v Speaker 2>sunrise to search for the body of Clyde E. Armor,

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<v Speaker 2>which they firmly believe will be found in the brush

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<v Speaker 2>not far from the Santa Fe Las Vegas Highway. They

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<v Speaker 2>think that the body is now in some arroyo between

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<v Speaker 2>this city and the village of San Jose, San Miguel County.

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<v Speaker 2>As a basis for this assumption. They assumed that the

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<v Speaker 2>postcard mailed from San Jose October twenty third and signed

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<v Speaker 2>Clyde was really written by Clyde e Armor. Mister Dunlevy

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<v Speaker 2>receiving a telegram late last night from mister Sawyer, Fresno, California,

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<v Speaker 2>declaring that the writing on the postcard could not have

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<v Speaker 2>been anyone's but Clyde Armours. It is well known, however,

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<v Speaker 2>that motorists write cards in one town and then mail

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<v Speaker 2>them in the next, or have someone made them, and

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<v Speaker 2>it seems just possible that Clyde Armer wrote such a

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<v Speaker 2>card in Las Vegas and intended to mail it somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>on the road. Perhaps the impostor mailed at forum to

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<v Speaker 2>deepen the mystery.

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<v Speaker 2>January two, nineteen seventeen, a man named Albert W. Blansett

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<v Speaker 2>is under arrest in Friday Harbor Washington, during a delay

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<v Speaker 2>asked by him before starting for Santa Fe, he shot himself.

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<v Speaker 2>He claims it was an accident, but it was evidently

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<v Speaker 2>attempted suicide. Meanwhile, no trace has been found of Clyde

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<v Speaker 2>d Armour, alive or dead, although scores have combed the

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<v Speaker 2>woods and maces between here and Las Vegas. In the

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<v Speaker 2>search conducted under the direction of Clyde Armour's brothers, Glenn

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<v Speaker 2>and Roy Armour, who offered one thousand dollar reward for

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<v Speaker 2>the body. Photos of Albert W. Blansett are positively identified

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<v Speaker 2>here as those of the man claiming to be Armour.

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<v Speaker 2>The same people declare that they have never seen the

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<v Speaker 2>man shown in the photos of Armor. On the arrival

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<v Speaker 2>of Blancet here in his positive identification. If he is guilt,

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<v Speaker 2>a confession is expected. Albert W. Blansett is the son

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<v Speaker 2>of Missus Charles Baker, and he returned to Friday Harbor, Washington,

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<v Speaker 2>November fourth, presumably from San Francisco, after an absence of

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<v Speaker 2>six months. He was arrested by Sheriff George Meade of

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<v Speaker 2>San Juan County, Washington State, on a fugitive charge on

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<v Speaker 2>information that he was wanted in New Mexico on the

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<v Speaker 2>charge of murder. Blansett took his arrest calmly and was silent,

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<v Speaker 2>except to say that he was not guilty of any crime.

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<v Speaker 2>At the time of his arrest, Blancett was getting on

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<v Speaker 2>the steamer Rosa Lee to go to richardson Low Pez

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<v Speaker 2>Island to spend New Year's Day with his mother and relatives,

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<v Speaker 2>who operate a logging camp in that vicinity. After his arrest,

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<v Speaker 2>he asked permission to have a talk with his mother.

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<v Speaker 2>The sheriff granted the request and took him over Sunday

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<v Speaker 2>to see his mother. Blancet carried a box of candy

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<v Speaker 2>and a few other gifts for the family. On arriving

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<v Speaker 2>at the camp, Blancet asked to unpack the things he

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<v Speaker 2>had brought and stepped into one of the vacant tenthouses nearby. Suddenly,

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<v Speaker 2>a gunshot was heard by the sheriff, who was taken

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<v Speaker 2>by surprise as he had been cautious to see that

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<v Speaker 2>Blanct had no weapons on him. The sheriff rushed into

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<v Speaker 2>the vacant tent to find Blancet lying on his back

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<v Speaker 2>in a pool of blood and a shotgun on the floor.

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<v Speaker 2>Blancet entering the tenthouse, apparently discovered the shotgun and instantly

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<v Speaker 2>placed the end of the barrel to his throat and

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<v Speaker 2>pulled the trigger. The entire charge of shot entered at

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<v Speaker 2>the base of the neck and passed out at the back,

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<v Speaker 2>inflicting an ugly wound about an inch in width, but

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<v Speaker 2>the charge of the shot struck no vital part. When

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<v Speaker 2>the sheriff leaned over the body of the young man,

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<v Speaker 2>the victim was still conscious. The sheriff asked Blancett why

409
00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:12.960
<v Speaker 2>he had fired the shot, and Blancet murmured, I could

410
00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:17.079
<v Speaker 2>not tell mother. Doctor Reid was summoned and the physician

411
00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:20.960
<v Speaker 2>hurried Blants it to the hospital after expressing the opinion

412
00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:23.799
<v Speaker 2>that the wound was a most remarkable one and would

413
00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:28.559
<v Speaker 2>not be fatal if no complications ensued. Blancett is but

414
00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:31.759
<v Speaker 2>twenty three years of age and had made Friday Harbor

415
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:35.359
<v Speaker 2>his home for the past twelve years. He was graduated

416
00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:38.640
<v Speaker 2>from the Friday Harbor High School in nineteen fourteen and

417
00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.759
<v Speaker 2>was looked upon as a boy of excellent ability, but

418
00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:44.720
<v Speaker 2>he early developed the drink habit and a tendency to

419
00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:48.759
<v Speaker 2>follow a wild life. The present culmination of his short

420
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:54.319
<v Speaker 2>career is not regarded as surprising by his acquaintances. Blancett's

421
00:28:54.359 --> 00:29:04.359
<v Speaker 2>mother is heartbroken over the tragedy. Following a wire from

422
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:07.920
<v Speaker 2>Marshall Mead and Friday Harbor, a town of four hundred

423
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:12.599
<v Speaker 2>people on San Juan Island, Washington, constituting San Juan County

424
00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:17.599
<v Speaker 2>close to the British Columbia line, that Blancet had been arrested,

425
00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:21.160
<v Speaker 2>Preparations were made to have the alleged slayer of Clyde

426
00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:25.119
<v Speaker 2>Armour of Sioux City, Iowa, brought at once to Santa Fe.

427
00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:29.000
<v Speaker 2>As Blanset asked time until Monday to decide whether he

428
00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:33.359
<v Speaker 2>would demand extradition, requisition papers were made out naming Chief

429
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.000
<v Speaker 2>of Police J. R. Galusha of Albuquerque as the officer

430
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:39.960
<v Speaker 2>who should bring back the prisoner to face the charge

431
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.400
<v Speaker 2>of making away with his motor companion somewhere between Santa

432
00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:46.880
<v Speaker 2>Fe and Valley Ranch, impersonating the victim here and at

433
00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:52.759
<v Speaker 2>Albuquerque selling his car and vanishing. Friday Harbor is thirty

434
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:57.480
<v Speaker 2>miles by steamer southeast of Bellingham, Washington, center of a grain,

435
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:01.119
<v Speaker 2>fruit and stock country with a big sam and cannery,

436
00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:04.799
<v Speaker 2>lime works, and fisheries. To reach it at this season,

437
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:08.440
<v Speaker 2>it is necessary to travel by sleigh to the island.

438
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:12.000
<v Speaker 2>Galusha will take with him the register of the Troy

439
00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:15.559
<v Speaker 2>Hotel of Las Vegas showing the name of E. W.

440
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:19.680
<v Speaker 2>Blansett written there by Armour's companion on October twenty third,

441
00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:24.400
<v Speaker 2>and also local and Albuquerque hotel registers showing the fake

442
00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:29.440
<v Speaker 2>signature of C. D. Armour. The arrest of Blansett in

443
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:33.319
<v Speaker 2>the far northwestern corner of the United States is believed

444
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:36.240
<v Speaker 2>to have been the result of information received from San

445
00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:40.480
<v Speaker 2>Juan County, New Mexico, where Blancett was born and raised,

446
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:44.279
<v Speaker 2>and a peculiar coincidence that his present home is in

447
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.519
<v Speaker 2>San Juan County, Washington. Sheriff Duffer and others in the

448
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.680
<v Speaker 2>New Mexico County aided Attorney Dunlevy of this city, who

449
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:55.160
<v Speaker 2>has had charge of the search for the brothers of

450
00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:59.480
<v Speaker 2>Clyde Armour. Attorney Dunlevy and the brothers believe that they

451
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.559
<v Speaker 2>have the strongest kind of a case against Blansett. It

452
00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:06.440
<v Speaker 2>is said evidence has been secured showing positively that he

453
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:09.319
<v Speaker 2>left Denver as a hired companion for a motor trip

454
00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:12.839
<v Speaker 2>with a man to Fresno, California, and that his record

455
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:17.000
<v Speaker 2>has not been of the best. Attorney Dunlevy has photos

456
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:20.319
<v Speaker 2>of Blanket which he showed local people Sunday and yesterday.

457
00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:23.960
<v Speaker 2>They were positively identified as those of the man who

458
00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:27.759
<v Speaker 2>represented himself here to be Armour. The fact that Armour's

459
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:31.319
<v Speaker 2>companion registered in Las Vegas as Blantcet and started to

460
00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:34.200
<v Speaker 2>write an e at the Montezuma Hotel here before he

461
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.599
<v Speaker 2>wrote the name of C. D. Armour on the register

462
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.599
<v Speaker 2>are regarded as valuable evidence. The photos looked nothing like

463
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:46.799
<v Speaker 2>those of Armor. A new complaint was filed against Blanket

464
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:52.039
<v Speaker 2>when attorney Melvin Dunlevy, representing the Armor Brothers, filed a

465
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.319
<v Speaker 2>charge of larceny, charging Blanset was stealing an Oldsmobile eight

466
00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:59.559
<v Speaker 2>from Clyde Armour and missus Mary Armour, and that the

467
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.960
<v Speaker 2>old bill was valued at twelve hundred dollars and was

468
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:07.240
<v Speaker 2>stolen somewhere near the Arroyo Hondo on October twenty third

469
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:12.799
<v Speaker 2>of last year. Selso Lopez, the new county sheriff, stated

470
00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.079
<v Speaker 2>this morning that he would call a public meeting of

471
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.240
<v Speaker 2>citizens at the courthouse tonight to arouse sentiment for forming

472
00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:21.960
<v Speaker 2>a searching party of one hundred or more people to

473
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:26.200
<v Speaker 2>scour the woods for the body of Clyde Armor. Quote.

474
00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:28.920
<v Speaker 2>I think that a systematic search should be made and

475
00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:31.480
<v Speaker 2>that no time should be lost. I think that we

476
00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:34.359
<v Speaker 2>should hunt for that body from Santa Fe to Gloriata.

477
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.480
<v Speaker 2>And I am confident that the sensational turn in the

478
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:40.799
<v Speaker 2>Armor mystery in the arrest of a man named Blancett,

479
00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:44.039
<v Speaker 2>will do much to arouse the people of this county

480
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:49.680
<v Speaker 2>to action. Unquote. Sheriff Lopez said that he regretted that

481
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:51.839
<v Speaker 2>he had not been in office in the time to

482
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:54.920
<v Speaker 2>go after blant It in the state of Washington, but

483
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:58.799
<v Speaker 2>that if Blancid is extradited to New Mexico, the young

484
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:02.279
<v Speaker 2>man will undoubtedly brought to Santa Fe to answer the

485
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:06.079
<v Speaker 2>charges filed against him. It is believed by many that

486
00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:09.160
<v Speaker 2>the arrest of Blansett was due largely to the hint

487
00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:12.799
<v Speaker 2>he himself gave to his real identity and former place

488
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:16.200
<v Speaker 2>of residence when he stated to George A Camp of

489
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.000
<v Speaker 2>Albuquerque in a local saloon that he was familiar with

490
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:23.759
<v Speaker 2>New Mexico and had lived in Aztec San Juan County.

491
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.920
<v Speaker 2>It appears that Blancett's mother was remarried the same Colossal

492
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:33.279
<v Speaker 2>Nerve displayed by the man impersonating Clyde Armor seems to

493
00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:37.359
<v Speaker 2>have again been shown after that man wired from Needles, California,

494
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:42.680
<v Speaker 2>October thirty first to missus Armour in Fresno, California that

495
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:45.279
<v Speaker 2>he had sold his car and was coming home on

496
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:49.200
<v Speaker 2>the train. It is also thought that the man who

497
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:54.200
<v Speaker 2>impersonated Armour dropped the impersonation after leaving Needles and resumed

498
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:59.200
<v Speaker 2>his real name. At all events, E. W. Blansett began

499
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.400
<v Speaker 2>to write releivtlatives that he had come across from Colorado

500
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:05.319
<v Speaker 2>with a motorist and had quit the motorist and was

501
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:09.159
<v Speaker 2>on his way home. The police and detectives, it has said,

502
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:12.679
<v Speaker 2>trace blants it to Friday Harbor and then wired to

503
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:17.000
<v Speaker 2>Albuquerque and Santa Fe authorities for a detailed description of

504
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:21.760
<v Speaker 2>the man wanted on the charge of murder. Late Saturday afternoon,

505
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:26.559
<v Speaker 2>the Marshall and Friday Harbor appeared satisfied that the Blancet

506
00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:29.880
<v Speaker 2>there was the man wanted in New Mexico, and the

507
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:34.960
<v Speaker 2>arrest followed promptly. Great interest was manifested here Sunday and

508
00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:38.360
<v Speaker 2>yesterday at the news of the arrest of Blancet, But

509
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:42.119
<v Speaker 2>greater still was the interest shown in his photo, which

510
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:45.519
<v Speaker 2>came into the possession of several Santa Feans and two

511
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:49.559
<v Speaker 2>or three people in Albuquerque. This photo is that of

512
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.880
<v Speaker 2>a young man with waving hair, a plump face, and

513
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:56.800
<v Speaker 2>a boyish appearance. It is a striking contrast to the

514
00:34:56.840 --> 00:35:00.559
<v Speaker 2>picture of Clyde Armour, the man of thirty two, of

515
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:10.400
<v Speaker 2>a serious, strong, rather thin face. January fifteenth, nineteen seventeen.

516
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:18.440
<v Speaker 2>The Clyde D. Armor murder mystery is solved. Missing since

517
00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:21.840
<v Speaker 2>the afternoon of October twenty third, when he was seen

518
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:26.480
<v Speaker 2>motoring from Las Vegas towards Santa Fe. Clyde Armor is

519
00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:29.000
<v Speaker 2>now known to have been killed by a heavy charge

520
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:32.960
<v Speaker 2>of shot fired into the back of his neck, severing

521
00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:38.159
<v Speaker 2>the arteries and causing him to bleed to death. Six

522
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:42.119
<v Speaker 2>shot were taken from Armour's skull late last night by

523
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.960
<v Speaker 2>county physician E. L. Ward, who made an examination of

524
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.199
<v Speaker 2>the bones. Now the undertaking establishment of c a rising

525
00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:55.960
<v Speaker 2>on Upper Palace Avenue, the skull, vertebrae and other bones

526
00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:59.480
<v Speaker 2>of the murdered man found Sunday will be held here

527
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:04.000
<v Speaker 2>as evident against Albert W. Blansett of Friday Harbor, Washington,

528
00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:08.280
<v Speaker 2>now being hurried to Santa Fe to answer the charge

529
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.280
<v Speaker 2>of murdering armor and stealing his automobile. He is expected

530
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:18.239
<v Speaker 2>to arrive tomorrow. The discovery of part of the skeleton

531
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:21.880
<v Speaker 2>of what was once the powerful athletic chief Clerk of

532
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:26.440
<v Speaker 2>the Northwestern Railway at Sioux City, Iowa, came as the

533
00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:30.199
<v Speaker 2>dramatic closed yesterday to a long search for the missing

534
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:34.519
<v Speaker 2>man begun when the Santa Fe New Mexican first announced

535
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.280
<v Speaker 2>that a cold blooded murder had doubtless been perpetrated in

536
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:42.840
<v Speaker 2>Santa Fe County. The first news of the discovery of

537
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:46.519
<v Speaker 2>the remains of armor came shortly after noon, when a

538
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:51.880
<v Speaker 2>long distance message from Carlos Creamer at Peko's stated that

539
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:57.079
<v Speaker 2>Antonio Sandoval Egregio, a native living two and three quarters

540
00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:01.800
<v Speaker 2>miles above Glorieta, A, discovered a human skull and vertebrae

541
00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:04.840
<v Speaker 2>in the hills three hundred yards to the left of

542
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.920
<v Speaker 2>the Las Vegas Santa Fe Road and about two and

543
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:13.880
<v Speaker 2>a half miles above the station. A gloriata marvelous indeed

544
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:18.159
<v Speaker 2>was the manner in which Antonio Sandoval came into possession

545
00:37:18.199 --> 00:37:20.719
<v Speaker 2>of a clue which not only clears up the mystery

546
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:25.119
<v Speaker 2>surrounding the disappearance of Clyde Armor, but furnishes evidence on

547
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:29.840
<v Speaker 2>which the state may work in prosecuting for the murder. Incidentally,

548
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:33.079
<v Speaker 2>it also brings to Sandoval the handsome sum of a

549
00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:39.079
<v Speaker 2>thousand dollar reward offered by the Armor family. Quote. I

550
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:41.719
<v Speaker 2>was sitting in my house with my family when I

551
00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:44.360
<v Speaker 2>saw a little black dog running around with something in

552
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:49.079
<v Speaker 2>its mouth. This was about eight o'clock Sunday morning. I

553
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:51.440
<v Speaker 2>did not pay much attention to the dog until I

554
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:54.360
<v Speaker 2>suddenly noticed he had a human shin bone with a

555
00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:57.519
<v Speaker 2>black shoe on it. I took my dog out on

556
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.119
<v Speaker 2>the road, and he kept looking up into my face

557
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:03.360
<v Speaker 2>and then running along, as though to lead me somewhere.

558
00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:06.440
<v Speaker 2>The little dog took me down the road and across

559
00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:09.519
<v Speaker 2>the hills. And after I had climbed about three hundred

560
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:12.360
<v Speaker 2>yards over the hills, which were covered with a light

561
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:16.440
<v Speaker 2>fall of snow, I found in an arroyo the skeleton

562
00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:20.559
<v Speaker 2>of a man. Perhaps twenty feet away. At the entrance

563
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:23.920
<v Speaker 2>to the arroyo, I saw a shotgun and near it

564
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:30.119
<v Speaker 2>some clothes badly torn. As soon as Sandoval's discovery had

565
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:33.960
<v Speaker 2>been phoned to Santa Fe, the authorities lost no time

566
00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:38.239
<v Speaker 2>in going to the scene of the murder. Attorney Melvin T. Dunlevy,

567
00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:43.239
<v Speaker 2>representing the Armor family, asked Undertaker Rising to go with him.

568
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:49.639
<v Speaker 2>Accompanying mister Dunlevy and mister Rising was doctor Harrison. Other

569
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:56.159
<v Speaker 2>cars quickly followed. Arriving at Sandoval's home above Glorieta, the

570
00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:59.880
<v Speaker 2>party was met by Carlos Kreamer and several people from glory.

571
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:04.000
<v Speaker 2>Sandoval stated that he had the foot of the murdered

572
00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:06.840
<v Speaker 2>man in his house, but that he was instructed to

573
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.920
<v Speaker 2>hold it for the authorities. He took it with him

574
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:12.320
<v Speaker 2>as he led the way to the scene of the murder.

575
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:16.119
<v Speaker 2>Arrived at the arroyo three hundred yards from the road.

576
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:19.719
<v Speaker 2>The party of Santa fe and stood aghast at the

577
00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:24.360
<v Speaker 2>gruesome discovery. Lying on the snow covered earth was the

578
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:28.840
<v Speaker 2>dismembered skeleton of a man of rather large physique. His

579
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:31.840
<v Speaker 2>arms had been torn off by wild animals and his

580
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:36.000
<v Speaker 2>legs severed at the knees. There was one means of

581
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.800
<v Speaker 2>identification not destroyed by the elements or by the animals.

582
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:43.559
<v Speaker 2>It was armours, set of fine teeth with a gold

583
00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:46.519
<v Speaker 2>crown in the lower jawl at the left and two

584
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:51.840
<v Speaker 2>at the right. Mister Davies asked Pedro c Ruiz, Justice

585
00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:55.079
<v Speaker 2>of the Peace of Gloriata, who accompanied the party, to

586
00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:58.840
<v Speaker 2>hold an inquest. The coroner's jury was made up of

587
00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:03.559
<v Speaker 2>spectators and worn in. The jury viewed the skeleton before

588
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:06.639
<v Speaker 2>it was removed from the arroyo, and brought in a

589
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:09.199
<v Speaker 2>verdict that Armor had come to his death by some

590
00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:13.039
<v Speaker 2>means not known to the jury. It was decided that

591
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:18.079
<v Speaker 2>further investigation would be necessary before determining just what had

592
00:40:18.159 --> 00:40:22.280
<v Speaker 2>killed Armor. Coming out of the arroyo, the party then

593
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.280
<v Speaker 2>viewed the shotgun, which lay on the ground where Armour's

594
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:29.639
<v Speaker 2>body probably fell when a load full of shot severed

595
00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:34.280
<v Speaker 2>the arteries of the neck. This shotgun was of Hopkins

596
00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.639
<v Speaker 2>and Alan make, with a single barrel and taking a

597
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:41.719
<v Speaker 2>size twelve shell. An empty shell was still in the gun.

598
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:46.920
<v Speaker 2>All suggestion of a suicide theory vanished when an examination

599
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:51.559
<v Speaker 2>of Armour's tattered clothes was made, revealing shotholes through the

600
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:54.599
<v Speaker 2>back of the brown flannel shirt and a streak of

601
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:59.199
<v Speaker 2>blood down his vest and coat. An examination of the

602
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:03.280
<v Speaker 2>vest of arms Armour disclosed an ingersoll watch which had

603
00:41:03.320 --> 00:41:07.239
<v Speaker 2>stopped at twenty five minutes past three. The crystal of

604
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.440
<v Speaker 2>the watch was broken, and the piece of glass stopped

605
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:14.239
<v Speaker 2>the hands. No doubt, it is thought that when Armour's

606
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:18.039
<v Speaker 2>heavy body fell to the ground, the watch crystal was broken,

607
00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:21.400
<v Speaker 2>and the record thus left of the hour the very

608
00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:26.280
<v Speaker 2>minute of the commission of the awful crime. The identification

609
00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:29.199
<v Speaker 2>of the skeleton is that of Clyde d. Armour, was

610
00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:32.360
<v Speaker 2>made complete by the marks in the clothes and a

611
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:35.119
<v Speaker 2>paper found in the watch pocket of the outing shirt.

612
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:39.000
<v Speaker 2>The tailor's marks in the gray coat and vests, which

613
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.039
<v Speaker 2>were of a gray check, showed that the clothes had

614
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<v Speaker 2>been made by the Royal Tailors of Chicago for C. D.

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00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:50.960
<v Speaker 2>Armor on January twelfth, nineteen fifteen. A receipt for work

616
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:54.719
<v Speaker 2>done on the oldsmobile found in the shirt pocket was

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00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:58.280
<v Speaker 2>regarded even as a better mark of identification. It was

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<v Speaker 2>from Fred Grocock Automobile repairing gasolene in tires at Clark's, Nebraska.

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<v Speaker 2>It was dated September twenty fifth, nineteen sixteen, and was

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<v Speaker 2>made out in his name. These expenses were evidently incurred

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<v Speaker 2>by Armour on his way through Nebraska, while his mother

622
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:19.920
<v Speaker 2>and sister were motoring with him. It is said that

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<v Speaker 2>at Clark's Armour's sister became ill and went to a hospital,

624
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:28.679
<v Speaker 2>whereupon Armor decided to continue on to Denver alone, leaving

625
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:33.159
<v Speaker 2>his relatives to take the train to California. On his

626
00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:36.639
<v Speaker 2>trip from Denver, Clyde Armor wore a cap, as shown

627
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:39.960
<v Speaker 2>by snapshot pictures taken of him, one of which was

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<v Speaker 2>mailed to his parents from San Jose, New Mexico. A

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<v Speaker 2>cap was found in the bundle of clothes which had

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<v Speaker 2>been torn from Armour's body by coyotes and buzzards. This

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00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:53.760
<v Speaker 2>was soaked in blood, which evidently gushed from the neck

632
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:56.920
<v Speaker 2>wound as his body fell to the ground. One of

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<v Speaker 2>the most interesting discoveries was a pair of eyeglass without

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<v Speaker 2>rims and a gold nosepiece fastened to Armour's vest by

635
00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:08.920
<v Speaker 2>a silk cord. It appears that Armour wore these glasses

636
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:12.639
<v Speaker 2>while hunting or doing any work that required accurate vision,

637
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:17.039
<v Speaker 2>that his own relatives mis mentioning. This fact is now

638
00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:21.599
<v Speaker 2>regarded as extraordinary, for it would have further distinguished Armour

639
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<v Speaker 2>from the man who came to Santa Fe and posed

640
00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:28.960
<v Speaker 2>as the Sioux City Railway clerk. These glasses were not

641
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:33.079
<v Speaker 2>injured in a pocket of the vest. A leather spectacle

642
00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:37.199
<v Speaker 2>case was found. It was marked in gold letters Sioux

643
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:41.639
<v Speaker 2>City Optical Company, Sioux City, Iowa. The authorities may get

644
00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:44.440
<v Speaker 2>information from this company as to the strength of the

645
00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:48.719
<v Speaker 2>lenses furnished and to whom, thus forging another link in

646
00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:51.920
<v Speaker 2>the chain of evidence. In the coat pocket of the

647
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:55.960
<v Speaker 2>murdered man, a clean silk handkerchief was found. It bore

648
00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:59.840
<v Speaker 2>a large a in one corner. The letter was probably

649
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:03.599
<v Speaker 2>made by machine and looked like initials on cheap silk

650
00:44:03.639 --> 00:44:08.079
<v Speaker 2>handkerchiefs sold in stores. A box of pistol cartridges was

651
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:11.239
<v Speaker 2>also found in the coat pocket and a pistol cleaner,

652
00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:16.719
<v Speaker 2>but no pistol was discovered underwear. Some silk garters and

653
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:19.760
<v Speaker 2>pieces of a violet silk tie, as well as a

654
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:24.880
<v Speaker 2>gold tie clasp were also found. Armour's signet ring, regarded

655
00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:27.360
<v Speaker 2>as one of the best means of identifying a body,

656
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:31.039
<v Speaker 2>is still missing. It was carried off with his arms

657
00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:35.360
<v Speaker 2>by wild animals, no doubt. An examination of the one

658
00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:39.880
<v Speaker 2>shoe found showed that was size seven of black kid leather,

659
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:44.519
<v Speaker 2>somewhat scuffed by climbing over rocks and through brush. All

660
00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:47.480
<v Speaker 2>of the bones and the clothes and other articles were

661
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:50.880
<v Speaker 2>brought to the city last night, but undertaker rising and

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00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:53.719
<v Speaker 2>are held subject to the orders of the sheriff and

663
00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:58.000
<v Speaker 2>District attorney. County physician. Ward took back with him some

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<v Speaker 2>of the earth which appeared bloodstain, and which he believed

665
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:04.719
<v Speaker 2>was the spot on which Armour's head rested as he

666
00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:09.639
<v Speaker 2>bled to death. Nearly everyone who viewed the skeleton, the clothes,

667
00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:11.880
<v Speaker 2>and the gun as they lay on the ground where

668
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.679
<v Speaker 2>Armour died marveled that any human being could have had

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<v Speaker 2>such song freud as to kill a man within three

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<v Speaker 2>hundred yards of the much traveled Las Vegas Santa Fe road,

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<v Speaker 2>and then leave the body with so many identification marks,

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00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:31.599
<v Speaker 2>unburied and uncovered, in fact, unshielded even by a pinion tree.

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00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:35.880
<v Speaker 2>And many also marveled that forest rangers and others who

674
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.400
<v Speaker 2>had passed so often near the spot where the body

675
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:44.039
<v Speaker 2>lay had not found it. The head, perfectly mummified, was

676
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:48.000
<v Speaker 2>partly chewed, and one eye socket was empty, probably picked

677
00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:51.760
<v Speaker 2>out by a buzzard. The ribs were all eaten except

678
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:56.440
<v Speaker 2>short sections adhering to the spine. The pelvis was found complete.

679
00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:58.920
<v Speaker 2>The top of the shoe, from which a section of

680
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:01.519
<v Speaker 2>bone protruded would eaten off for an inch or two.

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<v Speaker 2>All the bones were picked almost clean, said Attorney Dunlovey. Quote.

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<v Speaker 2>While of course it is a shock to know positively

683
00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:14.159
<v Speaker 2>that Armor was murdered, it is merely a confirmation of

684
00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:17.559
<v Speaker 2>the theory the Armor brothers and I, as well as others,

685
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:20.519
<v Speaker 2>have held ever since the brothers came to Santa Fe

686
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:25.960
<v Speaker 2>and told me their extraordinary story. The Nebraskans Roy and

687
00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:30.119
<v Speaker 2>Glen Armour advanced a suggestion long ago that Clyde Armour

688
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:33.880
<v Speaker 2>was lured from his automobile by a companion under pretense

689
00:46:33.960 --> 00:46:37.480
<v Speaker 2>of going hunting. This appears to have been the correct theory.

690
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.360
<v Speaker 2>Armor and his companion passed through San Jose before reaching Gloriota.

691
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:45.440
<v Speaker 2>The car stopped in the road and the two alighted

692
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:49.360
<v Speaker 2>to hunt a rabbit. Armor was evidently taken by surprise,

693
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:52.360
<v Speaker 2>a shotgun having been leveled at the back of his

694
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:55.519
<v Speaker 2>neck and the trigger pulled before he could turn around.

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00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:59.079
<v Speaker 2>It was a cold blooded crime, but no one could

696
00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:05.360
<v Speaker 2>realize just how cold blooded until today. Unquote. Mister Dunlevy

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00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:08.280
<v Speaker 2>said that Jack Stewart's story that he saw two men

698
00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:11.719
<v Speaker 2>in a car bearing an isolewa tag passed the gate

699
00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:14.840
<v Speaker 2>to Hannah's ranch and go as far as the Sandy Arroyo,

700
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:18.400
<v Speaker 2>within seven miles of Santa Fe, may still be true,

701
00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:22.000
<v Speaker 2>he said. Quote Armour's companion could easily have picked up

702
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:24.639
<v Speaker 2>somebody on the road, as he was accustomed to do.

703
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:28.400
<v Speaker 2>I am now convinced that the old native who told

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00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:31.599
<v Speaker 2>us long ago that on October twenty third he had

705
00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:35.159
<v Speaker 2>seen a man speeding past Canyon Sido as though crazy,

706
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:39.320
<v Speaker 2>was correct. That man, in my opinion, was a man

707
00:47:39.360 --> 00:47:42.239
<v Speaker 2>who had shot Armor to death in the woods near Gloriata,

708
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:46.440
<v Speaker 2>and the car he was running was Armour's oldsmobile. If

709
00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:50.119
<v Speaker 2>Armor was murdered at three twenty five, nearly three miles

710
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:53.559
<v Speaker 2>above Gloriata and his car was in Santa Fe by

711
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:56.400
<v Speaker 2>four thirty or four forty five pm the same day,

712
00:47:56.679 --> 00:47:59.199
<v Speaker 2>it is evident that there was little time for a

713
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:04.480
<v Speaker 2>careful sir of Armour's pockets to remove damaging identification marks.

714
00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:08.280
<v Speaker 2>Everything Armour had, except perhaps a gun and some shells,

715
00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:12.599
<v Speaker 2>were in a car. His valises containing letters and papers

716
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:16.119
<v Speaker 2>which led to information concerning his family and business affairs,

717
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:19.000
<v Speaker 2>were in the car with about two hundred dollars worth

718
00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:22.559
<v Speaker 2>of camping equipment. The fact that Blancett was able to

719
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.760
<v Speaker 2>wire Armour's parents in Fresno at four point fifty three

720
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:30.280
<v Speaker 2>PM indicates that he had some information beforehand or was

721
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:41.800
<v Speaker 2>very rapid in going through Armour's correspondence. Albert W. Blansett,

722
00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:45.599
<v Speaker 2>charged with the murder of Clyde D. Armour, is expected

723
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:48.199
<v Speaker 2>to arrive here in a day or two. It is

724
00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:51.039
<v Speaker 2>believed he is traveling with Chief of Police J. R.

725
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:55.480
<v Speaker 2>Galusha of Albuquerque and a trained nurse who accompanied him

726
00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:58.239
<v Speaker 2>when he was moved from the hospital in Friday. Harbor

727
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:01.280
<v Speaker 2>blance it is suffering from the effects of a self

728
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:04.639
<v Speaker 2>inflicted gunshot wound in the throat, an alleged attempt at

729
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:08.719
<v Speaker 2>suicide when informed that he was charged with Armour's murder.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a strange coincidence that Clyde Armour died from

731
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:16.440
<v Speaker 2>a gunshot wound in the neck. Now that the eyes

732
00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:18.920
<v Speaker 2>of the people of New Mexico were turned on this

733
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:22.599
<v Speaker 2>extraordinary young man, something of his history and his people

734
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:25.800
<v Speaker 2>will be of special interest. First of all, Blants, it

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00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.159
<v Speaker 2>is no blood relation of the blankets of San Juan County.

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<v Speaker 2>According to no less authority than R. W. Heflin, Deputy

737
00:49:33.639 --> 00:49:37.880
<v Speaker 2>State Treasurer and formerly County treasurer of San Juan County

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<v Speaker 2>for five years. Quote. It seems but fair to the

739
00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:45.000
<v Speaker 2>Blankets of San Juan County to state who blants. It

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00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:49.800
<v Speaker 2>is some fifty years ago Mona Blantset, now ninety years

741
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:53.639
<v Speaker 2>of age and residing in Aztec, San Juan County, was

742
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:56.800
<v Speaker 2>living in Nebraska. It was just half a century ago

743
00:49:56.920 --> 00:50:01.000
<v Speaker 2>when she adopted a little baby six weeks old. This

744
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:04.880
<v Speaker 2>boy's last name was Reordon. I believe or Reardon who

745
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:08.239
<v Speaker 2>his father was, and under what circumstances he came to

746
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:11.639
<v Speaker 2>be adopted. I do not know, but the fact has

747
00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:16.239
<v Speaker 2>been established that Mona Blancet adopted the infant. It was

748
00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:18.840
<v Speaker 2>but natural that the baby took the glance at name.

749
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.360
<v Speaker 2>This baby grew to manhood and married a girl from

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00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:27.280
<v Speaker 2>San Juan County, where Mona Blantzet moved some years ago. Rearden,

751
00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.519
<v Speaker 2>or Blanted as he was called, had two children, a

752
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:34.880
<v Speaker 2>boy and a girl. The boy is called Albert W. Blansett.

753
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:38.079
<v Speaker 2>The girl is living with her mother and Friday Harbor.

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00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:43.000
<v Speaker 2>The mother is now missus Charles Baker. Reardon, I have

755
00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:46.239
<v Speaker 2>been informed, was shot and killed in a tragedy some

756
00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:48.840
<v Speaker 2>years ago, and it is said that he had a

757
00:50:48.840 --> 00:50:52.559
<v Speaker 2>stormy career, and that if Albert W. Blantset is guilty

758
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:55.360
<v Speaker 2>of the crime with which he is charged, the son

759
00:50:55.559 --> 00:51:01.679
<v Speaker 2>may have inherited this tendency to figure in tragedies. Mister

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00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:04.840
<v Speaker 2>Hefflin said that he knew Albert Blansett quite well in

761
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:08.000
<v Speaker 2>San Juan County. He said that Blansett was of a

762
00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:13.159
<v Speaker 2>boastful nature. Quote. Sheriff Duffer of San Juan County knows

763
00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:16.559
<v Speaker 2>a great deal about Albert Blansett, and I feel sure

764
00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:19.119
<v Speaker 2>that he will be of use to the state if

765
00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:21.679
<v Speaker 2>an effort is made to get Blancet to tell of

766
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:39.199
<v Speaker 2>his career in New Mexico. Enjoy ad free listening at

767
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:45.519
<v Speaker 2>this safehouse. Dubbadubadubba dot Patreon dot com, slash true crime

768
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:59.199
<v Speaker 2>historian April twenty first, nineteen seventeen. Albert W. Blansett the

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00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:02.400
<v Speaker 2>only I witness of the death of Clyde d Armour

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<v Speaker 2>in the Gloriada Woods on the afternoon of October twenty third,

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen sixteen, the day Colonel Roosevelt spoke in Albuquerque and

772
00:52:11.639 --> 00:52:16.239
<v Speaker 2>in Las Vegas today told under oath what he declared

773
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.280
<v Speaker 2>are the details of the tragedy. It was an accident

774
00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:24.119
<v Speaker 2>due to his tripping, causing him to pull the trigger.

775
00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:28.880
<v Speaker 2>He said, then, as he saw Armor apparently dead, he

776
00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:31.960
<v Speaker 2>decided to go for a doctor or for help, but

777
00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:35.559
<v Speaker 2>feared that he would be accused of murder stole over him,

778
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:41.639
<v Speaker 2>and he changed his plans. Blanset admitted impersonating Armour in

779
00:52:41.719 --> 00:52:45.400
<v Speaker 2>Santa Fe and in Albuquerque from October twenty third to

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00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:51.960
<v Speaker 2>October thirtieth, nineteen sixteen. Admitted cashing Armour's travelers checks, receiving

781
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:55.199
<v Speaker 2>money from the Sioux City Gas and Electric Company, and

782
00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:58.119
<v Speaker 2>of trying to get money from Missus Mary E. Armour,

783
00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:03.679
<v Speaker 2>mother of the dead man. He admitted drinking, gambling, joy

784
00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:07.360
<v Speaker 2>riding in a fast life. He said, in extenuation of

785
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.519
<v Speaker 2>his conduct that he had sought to forget the terrible

786
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:14.039
<v Speaker 2>tragedy in the Gloriada Woods, of which he felt innocent

787
00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.599
<v Speaker 2>and yet feared a rest and danger because of the

788
00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:24.760
<v Speaker 2>peculiar circumstances surrounding it. Blancet admitted more. He admitted an

789
00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:29.679
<v Speaker 2>attempt to suicide on December thirty first, nineteen sixteen, because

790
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.960
<v Speaker 2>he said he feared to confront his mother while under

791
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:36.840
<v Speaker 2>a charge of murder. Considering the severe trials she had

792
00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:40.440
<v Speaker 2>endured last summer when her son in law was killed

793
00:53:40.679 --> 00:53:44.760
<v Speaker 2>and her daughter seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Detroit.

794
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:48.480
<v Speaker 2>There was one point of the prosecution that Blancett did

795
00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:51.280
<v Speaker 2>not clean up, and that was the authorship of the

796
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:55.199
<v Speaker 2>mysterious letter addressed to the Governor of New Mexico and

797
00:53:55.280 --> 00:54:00.599
<v Speaker 2>postmark Seattle, eleven thirty p m. January thirteenth, nineteen six seventeen.

798
00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:04.960
<v Speaker 2>This letter warned the governor that Blancett was innocent and

799
00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:08.320
<v Speaker 2>laid the charge of murder and everything else on the

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00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:12.920
<v Speaker 2>signer of the letter, W. E. Edelman. Blancett said he

801
00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:15.239
<v Speaker 2>was under the influence of morphine a good deal of

802
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:18.360
<v Speaker 2>the time after his self inflicted wound, and could not

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00:54:18.519 --> 00:54:22.119
<v Speaker 2>remember writing this letter, but admitted that the handwriting was

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00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:25.639
<v Speaker 2>similar to his own. He said the signature was not

805
00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:29.280
<v Speaker 2>in his writing, however, and he had never heard of Edelman.

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00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.880
<v Speaker 2>Asked to how far Blancet was away from Armour when

807
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:36.440
<v Speaker 2>he fired the fatal shot. Later in his testimony, he

808
00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:39.400
<v Speaker 2>said it might have been ten, twenty or thirty feet

809
00:54:39.480 --> 00:54:49.280
<v Speaker 2>or more. He did not remember. Blancet said after leaving

810
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.119
<v Speaker 2>Roe he was not real drunk on the afternoon of

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<v Speaker 2>October twenty third, nineteen sixteen. But he was feeling his drinks.

812
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<v Speaker 2>He said, Armor and he were friendly to the last moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Arriving at a spot this side of some ruins, he

814
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<v Speaker 2>could not remember just where. He and Armor drove the

815
00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:11.840
<v Speaker 2>cart in to thirty feet off the road and prepared

816
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<v Speaker 2>to hunt quote. I carried the shotgun and he the

817
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:18.880
<v Speaker 2>twenty two rifle, and we went to the right of

818
00:55:18.920 --> 00:55:22.920
<v Speaker 2>the road, probably through some sage brush. We tramped around

819
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:26.679
<v Speaker 2>perhaps half an hour or an hour. I was carrying

820
00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:29.519
<v Speaker 2>the shotgun. It was a hammer gun, and I had

821
00:55:29.559 --> 00:55:33.079
<v Speaker 2>not been used to using a hammer shotgun. I was

822
00:55:33.159 --> 00:55:37.119
<v Speaker 2>carrying it cocked across my left arm. My left hand

823
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:39.599
<v Speaker 2>was kind of back toward the stock, and the finger

824
00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:42.000
<v Speaker 2>of my right hand was on the trigger and my

825
00:55:42.079 --> 00:55:45.800
<v Speaker 2>thumb on the hammer. We were walking around, and I

826
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:50.119
<v Speaker 2>tripped or stumbled some way, and catching myself, I pulled

827
00:55:50.119 --> 00:55:54.159
<v Speaker 2>the trigger and then Armor fell and I ran across

828
00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:57.320
<v Speaker 2>to him. He was lying on the ground, face down

829
00:55:57.400 --> 00:56:01.519
<v Speaker 2>and bleeding. I turned him over and shouted Armor, Armor,

830
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:05.639
<v Speaker 2>but he did not answer me. I was excited and nervous,

831
00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:08.320
<v Speaker 2>and I decided to go for a doctor or someone

832
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:11.119
<v Speaker 2>to give help. I dropped the shotgun when I went

833
00:56:11.159 --> 00:56:13.039
<v Speaker 2>to him, and when I got ready to go, I

834
00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:15.800
<v Speaker 2>did not notice which gun I got. And when I

835
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:18.320
<v Speaker 2>went away, I found I had picked up the rifle.

836
00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:25.719
<v Speaker 2>Asked where as cap was? He said he did not remember. Question.

837
00:56:26.199 --> 00:56:29.840
<v Speaker 2>And when you reached the car, what did you do? Answer?

838
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:32.440
<v Speaker 2>I had a bottle of whiskey there, and I took

839
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:34.800
<v Speaker 2>a big drink of it and jumped into the car.

840
00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:37.639
<v Speaker 2>I backed it out and put it on the main road.

841
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:40.360
<v Speaker 2>I knew there was a town near, and I started

842
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:44.679
<v Speaker 2>as fast as I could go. I was excited and nervous.

843
00:56:46.599 --> 00:56:51.599
<v Speaker 2>Question where was the spade or shovel? Answer? It was

844
00:56:51.639 --> 00:56:54.840
<v Speaker 2>in the car. I did not take it out. The

845
00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:56.800
<v Speaker 2>witness said he did not know the name of the

846
00:56:56.840 --> 00:56:59.239
<v Speaker 2>next town, where he had hoped to find a doctor

847
00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:03.840
<v Speaker 2>or someone to oup quote, no, sir, because when I

848
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:06.519
<v Speaker 2>was driven a little ways, I got to thinking about

849
00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:09.719
<v Speaker 2>what had happened, and I was nervous and excited, and

850
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:13.119
<v Speaker 2>I thought if I noticed anyone mister armor being shot

851
00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:15.639
<v Speaker 2>in back of the head, they would blame blame on

852
00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:19.559
<v Speaker 2>me and charge me with murder. I was not acquainted

853
00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:21.400
<v Speaker 2>in that part of the country. And I had never

854
00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:24.840
<v Speaker 2>been there before. I was thinking, as I said that

855
00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:27.400
<v Speaker 2>I was in a strange country all alone, and if

856
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:30.360
<v Speaker 2>I reported that case, no one would believe me and

857
00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:33.719
<v Speaker 2>they'd put me up for murder. So I decided to

858
00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:37.679
<v Speaker 2>say nothing. I came on to Santa Fe and decided

859
00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:40.039
<v Speaker 2>to get out of the country. I did not get

860
00:57:40.039 --> 00:57:43.199
<v Speaker 2>out right away, however, one thing, I did not have

861
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:47.119
<v Speaker 2>money to do it with, and anotherwise, I started drinking

862
00:57:47.199 --> 00:57:52.039
<v Speaker 2>when I got to town. Unquote, The witness said Armor

863
00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:54.599
<v Speaker 2>had told him about the Sioux City Gas and Electric

864
00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:58.199
<v Speaker 2>Company note, but had not stated how much it was.

865
00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:02.280
<v Speaker 2>Blancet said he decided to get some money by wiring

866
00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:06.519
<v Speaker 2>this company. To a question, he replied that he arrived

867
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.599
<v Speaker 2>here about four pm. The first thing he did was

868
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:12.440
<v Speaker 2>put the car in a garage. Then he went to

869
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:16.599
<v Speaker 2>the Montezuma Hotel and took two grips up to his room,

870
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:20.079
<v Speaker 2>one of his own and one a black one belonging

871
00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:23.960
<v Speaker 2>to Armor. Arrived in his room, the defendant said, he

872
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.280
<v Speaker 2>took a couple of drinks out of a bottle, washed himself,

873
00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:30.920
<v Speaker 2>changed his collar and tie, and then looked through Armour's

874
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:34.280
<v Speaker 2>traveling bag. In this bag he found a bunch of

875
00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:37.039
<v Speaker 2>letters in a check book or a book of travelers

876
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:41.159
<v Speaker 2>money orders. He also found, he said, as Sioux City

877
00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:45.199
<v Speaker 2>Gas an electric company note for three hundred and fifty dollars.

878
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:48.840
<v Speaker 2>He then went downtown and visited a saloon near the

879
00:58:48.880 --> 00:58:51.920
<v Speaker 2>hotel he was stopping at, and then proceeding to the

880
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:55.559
<v Speaker 2>telegraph office, sending the message to the gas company at

881
00:58:55.559 --> 00:58:58.960
<v Speaker 2>four point fifty three pm. He was here shown the

882
00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:03.960
<v Speaker 2>telegram and identified it as in his handwriting. He went

883
00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:06.360
<v Speaker 2>to the bank saloon, he said, and then to a

884
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:10.320
<v Speaker 2>barbershop where he saw some bird dogs. He thought. It

885
00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:14.480
<v Speaker 2>was about five PM when he got shaved. Question how

886
00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:19.440
<v Speaker 2>did you occupy yourself that evening and night? Answer? I

887
00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:22.159
<v Speaker 2>was drinking and I went out to the sporting district.

888
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:25.440
<v Speaker 2>Some fellow accompanied me. I did all this because I

889
00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:29.519
<v Speaker 2>was trying to forget what had happened. Question did you

890
00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:33.920
<v Speaker 2>get any money in response to your telegram? Answer? Yes?

891
00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:36.800
<v Speaker 2>The next day with the money, I tried to have

892
00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:40.280
<v Speaker 2>a good time. The witness said that the next day

893
00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:44.320
<v Speaker 2>he visited saloons, talked to Santa Fean's, whose names he

894
00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:47.599
<v Speaker 2>could not recall, and proceeded to have a good time.

895
00:59:48.840 --> 00:59:51.800
<v Speaker 2>On October twenty fifth, He said he took a trip

896
00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:55.280
<v Speaker 2>to Albuquerque and went joy riding. He said again he

897
00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:59.199
<v Speaker 2>tried to forget the tragedy of the Gloriada Woods. To

898
00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:02.800
<v Speaker 2>pay incident expenses, he cashed one of the ten dollars

899
01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:08.079
<v Speaker 2>travelers checks belonging to Armor. Question, you knew all this

900
01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:10.840
<v Speaker 2>time that Armour's body was lying out there in the

901
01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:13.719
<v Speaker 2>woods on top of the ground, and yet you remained

902
01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:19.639
<v Speaker 2>around Santa Fe for two or three days? Did you why? Answer?

903
01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:22.000
<v Speaker 2>Because I was trying to have a good time, to

904
01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:24.239
<v Speaker 2>forget what had happened, and to get enough money to

905
01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:27.639
<v Speaker 2>get out of this country. The witness admitted he had

906
01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:30.519
<v Speaker 2>gone to the Comb's Hotel in Albuquerque and had met

907
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:34.079
<v Speaker 2>a couple of traveling salesmen from Denver. He said he

908
01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:37.280
<v Speaker 2>kept motoring around and talking to new people in an

909
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:41.239
<v Speaker 2>effort to forget about the accident. The witness admitted he

910
01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:44.119
<v Speaker 2>had sold the camping outfit out of garage in Santa

911
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:48.920
<v Speaker 2>Fe and had used the money on his gasoline bill. Question,

912
01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:52.239
<v Speaker 2>did it ever occur to you that in distributing the

913
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:56.239
<v Speaker 2>personal effects of Armor and using his name, you might

914
01:00:56.360 --> 01:01:00.800
<v Speaker 2>lead people to trace you out and accuse you of murder. Answer.

915
01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:04.639
<v Speaker 2>I was crazy and excited about what had happened. I

916
01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:09.199
<v Speaker 2>did not think anything about it. In Albuquerque, he said

917
01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:13.480
<v Speaker 2>he was drinking constantly and was at no time perfectly sober.

918
01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:17.000
<v Speaker 2>He said that he can carry some liquor, but eventually

919
01:01:17.039 --> 01:01:20.639
<v Speaker 2>it goes to his head, making him forget everything except

920
01:01:20.679 --> 01:01:27.280
<v Speaker 2>the present. Question how about its effects on your legs? Answer?

921
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:32.840
<v Speaker 2>It never affects my legs. Blancet said that the last

922
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:36.480
<v Speaker 2>day he was in Albuquerque, he sold the Oldsmobile eight

923
01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:39.159
<v Speaker 2>for at five hundred dollars, and that he had not

924
01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:41.800
<v Speaker 2>told the truth when a Santa Fean saw him at

925
01:01:41.800 --> 01:01:45.320
<v Speaker 2>the train. He said he had stated that he had

926
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:48.679
<v Speaker 2>but forty dollars and his ticket on leaving Albuquerque for

927
01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:52.559
<v Speaker 2>San Francisco, but in reality he had one hundred and

928
01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:56.320
<v Speaker 2>fifty or two hundred dollars. Asked about a due bill

929
01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:59.119
<v Speaker 2>for three hundred dollars he was alleged to have signed

930
01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:02.079
<v Speaker 2>and given to Edward Rich for a gambling debt, he

931
01:02:02.119 --> 01:02:04.719
<v Speaker 2>said he might have signed such a bill. Quote, I

932
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:07.239
<v Speaker 2>remember someone stopping me as I was getting on the

933
01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:12.159
<v Speaker 2>train for San Francisco unquote. Glancet said that the man

934
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:14.920
<v Speaker 2>who had pushed the due bill before him had already

935
01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:18.039
<v Speaker 2>gotten two hundred dollars of his cash, and he did

936
01:02:18.039 --> 01:02:21.800
<v Speaker 2>not see why he should get any more. The defendant

937
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:24.760
<v Speaker 2>remarked that from the time he had shot Armor, he

938
01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:29.199
<v Speaker 2>took a number of false steps. First, he said, was

939
01:02:29.199 --> 01:02:34.000
<v Speaker 2>failing to notify the authorities, The second was using Armour's name,

940
01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:37.559
<v Speaker 2>the third was wiring to the gas company and missus

941
01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:40.920
<v Speaker 2>Armor for money, and the fourth was gambling it away,

942
01:02:41.480 --> 01:02:45.920
<v Speaker 2>and the fifth was selling Armour's oldsmobile. Blancet said he

943
01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:48.559
<v Speaker 2>could not remember the names of Santa Fean's whom he

944
01:02:48.639 --> 01:02:52.960
<v Speaker 2>met here. After leaving Albuquerque, he said he went direct

945
01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:56.599
<v Speaker 2>to San Francisco, spent a night there, and then went

946
01:02:56.679 --> 01:03:01.239
<v Speaker 2>to Seattle. The witness described as rest on board the

947
01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:06.960
<v Speaker 2>Little Steamer Rosalie December thirtieth, nineteen sixteen, and his attempted

948
01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:12.039
<v Speaker 2>suicide on December thirty. First. Why he committed suicide he

949
01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:15.679
<v Speaker 2>explained as an impulse, saying, when I was in the tent,

950
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:18.400
<v Speaker 2>I happened to glance up and I saw a shotgun.

951
01:03:18.920 --> 01:03:21.079
<v Speaker 2>I did not stop to think what I was doing.

952
01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:24.719
<v Speaker 2>I grabbed the gun and shot myself. I did not

953
01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:28.239
<v Speaker 2>want to tell mother I was arrested and charged with murder.

954
01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:34.119
<v Speaker 2>During his subsequent treatment in the hospital and Friday Harbor

955
01:03:34.199 --> 01:03:37.880
<v Speaker 2>until January thirteenth, the witness said he had received two

956
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:41.079
<v Speaker 2>shots of morphine a day. He said he could not

957
01:03:41.199 --> 01:03:44.239
<v Speaker 2>remember writing a letter from Seattle, and that while in

958
01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:48.079
<v Speaker 2>Seattle he was desperately ill, so ill he could not

959
01:03:48.199 --> 01:03:51.000
<v Speaker 2>be propped up in bed because of the pain his

960
01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:56.880
<v Speaker 2>wound caused him cross examination by District Attorney Christ. Question,

961
01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:03.639
<v Speaker 2>how extensive was your drunkenness? Denver? Answer? Quite often, I

962
01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:07.480
<v Speaker 2>was drinking all the time. Mister Christ asked him if

963
01:04:07.480 --> 01:04:10.840
<v Speaker 2>he was indulging in many such escapades as just mentioned,

964
01:04:11.199 --> 01:04:14.800
<v Speaker 2>and he said not. Mister Christ questioned him about the

965
01:04:14.880 --> 01:04:18.199
<v Speaker 2>statements made last night that Armor was to pay him

966
01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:23.320
<v Speaker 2>four dollars a day in expenses for driving Armor to California.

967
01:04:23.800 --> 01:04:26.639
<v Speaker 2>He asked Glancet if Armor permitted him to drive the

968
01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:29.519
<v Speaker 2>car when Armor had seen him take on so much

969
01:04:29.559 --> 01:04:34.719
<v Speaker 2>whiskey in Trinidad Pueblo in Las Vegas. The witness replied

970
01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:39.199
<v Speaker 2>Armor had not said anything to him. Question who drove

971
01:04:39.239 --> 01:04:43.679
<v Speaker 2>the car after you left Las Vegas? Answer? I think

972
01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:47.480
<v Speaker 2>I did. Mister Christ asked him if he was drunk

973
01:04:47.519 --> 01:04:50.079
<v Speaker 2>at the wheel, and the witness answered that he had

974
01:04:50.119 --> 01:04:53.440
<v Speaker 2>been drinking. He did not admit he was quite drunk

975
01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:58.000
<v Speaker 2>when he left Las Vegas. Mister Christ had a large

976
01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:01.599
<v Speaker 2>stack of papers before him and question blants It on

977
01:05:01.719 --> 01:05:05.679
<v Speaker 2>innumerable details. One of these was about the different ways

978
01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:10.199
<v Speaker 2>Blansett signed his own name. Mister Chris pointing out that checks,

979
01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:14.039
<v Speaker 2>payrolls and other papers signed by Blanchet showed the following

980
01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:20.360
<v Speaker 2>signature Albert W. Blansett, Albert Blansett and E. W. Blantsett.

981
01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:23.639
<v Speaker 2>The witness admitted he had two ways of writing the

982
01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:29.039
<v Speaker 2>letter E. There is one outstanding feature of Blancett's trial

983
01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:32.039
<v Speaker 2>which seems to have impressed every one of the hundreds

984
01:05:32.079 --> 01:05:34.840
<v Speaker 2>and hundreds of people who have crowded into the district

985
01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:38.800
<v Speaker 2>courtroom for the past ten days, and that is the

986
01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:42.519
<v Speaker 2>marvelous cool nerve displayed by the man just past twenty

987
01:05:42.519 --> 01:05:45.400
<v Speaker 2>two years of age, who is under the cloud of

988
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:49.400
<v Speaker 2>a first degree murder charge. He seems to be the

989
01:05:49.480 --> 01:05:52.800
<v Speaker 2>least concerned man at this trial. Is a remark heard

990
01:05:52.880 --> 01:05:57.639
<v Speaker 2>again and again. It was particularly evident on the witness

991
01:05:57.679 --> 01:06:03.440
<v Speaker 2>stand undergoing a grilling cross examination by District Attorney J. H. Christ,

992
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:08.639
<v Speaker 2>that Blanchet appeared most cool and collected. Blanchet seemed ready

993
01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:12.199
<v Speaker 2>to admit almost anything and everything, except the point the

994
01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:16.880
<v Speaker 2>district attorney tried most industriously to bring out that Blancet

995
01:06:16.920 --> 01:06:21.800
<v Speaker 2>committed murder. When the defendant might well have seemed flustered

996
01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:25.039
<v Speaker 2>at the avalanche of testimony thrown against him by the state,

997
01:06:25.679 --> 01:06:28.760
<v Speaker 2>he explained calmly that he had taken a false step,

998
01:06:29.119 --> 01:06:33.360
<v Speaker 2>and one false step led to another, or he announced calmly,

999
01:06:33.679 --> 01:06:38.639
<v Speaker 2>he could not remember, with a frankness that was almost bewildering.

1000
01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:42.280
<v Speaker 2>He practically admitted the truth of the maxim the way

1001
01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.719
<v Speaker 2>of the transgressor as hard and said that even when

1002
01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:49.119
<v Speaker 2>he reached his home in Friday Harbor, realizing that he

1003
01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:51.800
<v Speaker 2>was innocent and yet might be forced to face a

1004
01:06:51.920 --> 01:07:01.400
<v Speaker 2>murder charge, he had an alibi under consideration. July ninth,

1005
01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:07.519
<v Speaker 2>nineteen twenty, the deputy sheriffs who went to the prison

1006
01:07:07.559 --> 01:07:11.519
<v Speaker 2>for the prisoner found him ready. He had been reading

1007
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:15.880
<v Speaker 2>since midnight before, he had been writing since his mother's

1008
01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:21.119
<v Speaker 2>farewell visit late in the afternoon. Are you ready, he asked,

1009
01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:23.679
<v Speaker 2>as the guard began unlocking his cell door.

1010
01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:25.079
<v Speaker 3>All right.

1011
01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:29.880
<v Speaker 2>He walked unassisted to the main building and while one

1012
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.920
<v Speaker 2>of the deputies were shackling his wrist to Deputy Sheriff

1013
01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:37.679
<v Speaker 2>Dick Huber's. He talked lightly and without any obvious effort,

1014
01:07:37.920 --> 01:07:41.239
<v Speaker 2>but he was the only one who spoke. The others

1015
01:07:41.320 --> 01:07:45.239
<v Speaker 2>were grimly silent. He commented on the fact that his

1016
01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:49.239
<v Speaker 2>right wrist was handcuffed. He couldn't use the other, he said,

1017
01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:53.800
<v Speaker 2>and supposed that was the reason his left was left free.

1018
01:07:53.920 --> 01:07:57.360
<v Speaker 2>His arm has been practically useless since he attempted to

1019
01:07:57.440 --> 01:08:01.760
<v Speaker 2>kill himself following his arrest more than than three years ago,

1020
01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:05.599
<v Speaker 2>by firing a shotgun charge into his neck. At the jail,

1021
01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:08.760
<v Speaker 2>he passed through the nerve racking ordeal of the reading

1022
01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:14.119
<v Speaker 2>of the death warrant, unshaken. As Sheriff Armijo, standing on

1023
01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:17.920
<v Speaker 2>his crutches, read the warrant, the prisoner stood at attention,

1024
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<v Speaker 2>shoulders thrown back and head held erect, and when he

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<v Speaker 2>raised his hands a few seconds later for the deputies

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<v Speaker 2>to strap them at his sides, they were ready. The priest,

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01:08:29.279 --> 01:08:32.319
<v Speaker 2>who had accompanied him from his cell, stood at his

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01:08:32.479 --> 01:08:35.439
<v Speaker 2>side during the reading, and once he leaned over and

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01:08:35.479 --> 01:08:39.159
<v Speaker 2>whispered and the prisoner took off his hat, the priest

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01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:42.239
<v Speaker 2>made a gesture once or twice with one hand behind

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01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:45.720
<v Speaker 2>a youth's back, as if to support him, but dropped

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01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:49.880
<v Speaker 2>his hand each time. Glancet did not need any support.

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<v Speaker 2>From the time he stepped from his cell at the

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01:08:53.119 --> 01:08:56.239
<v Speaker 2>prison until he plunged to death, he gave not the

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<v Speaker 2>faintest indication of weakening. His demeanor was that of a

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01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:05.319
<v Speaker 2>man doing something commonplace. His face was free from any

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01:09:05.359 --> 01:09:09.479
<v Speaker 2>trace of the haggard expression that often marks men condemned

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01:09:09.479 --> 01:09:12.960
<v Speaker 2>to death. His face didn't pale for a fleeting second,

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01:09:13.359 --> 01:09:15.520
<v Speaker 2>and when he spoke there was not a quavering in

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01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:20.199
<v Speaker 2>his voice. At times he appeared smile. Although the prisoner

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01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:23.079
<v Speaker 2>did not sleep last night, having spent the four part

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01:09:23.119 --> 01:09:26.079
<v Speaker 2>of the night writing letters and the later part reading

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01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.239
<v Speaker 2>in his cell, he ate heartily at supper, and the

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01:09:29.319 --> 01:09:33.479
<v Speaker 2>night before he slept soundly. The death watch reported that

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01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:36.119
<v Speaker 2>he went to his cot early and fell into a

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01:09:36.159 --> 01:09:39.520
<v Speaker 2>deep sleep almost at once. He didn't move from where

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01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:42.159
<v Speaker 2>he lay until the bell clanged in the cell house

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<v Speaker 2>the next morning. Warden fidel Or Teese and Deputy Warden

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<v Speaker 2>Duke And went to his cell last night shortly after

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01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:53.600
<v Speaker 2>midnight and found him reading. He needed no bracing up

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01:09:54.159 --> 01:09:57.560
<v Speaker 2>the prisoner gave no indication of losing his nerve, and

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01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:00.760
<v Speaker 2>in fact questioned the deputy as to the length of

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01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:03.199
<v Speaker 2>the drop that the hangman was going to give him.

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<v Speaker 2>He died as a Catholic who was baptized two years

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<v Speaker 2>ago following his imprisonment, and yesterday morning he made his

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01:10:11.840 --> 01:10:17.000
<v Speaker 2>last confession and received communion. The books he was reading

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01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:20.319
<v Speaker 2>as he waited for the deputy sheriffs were prayer books.

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01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:24.479
<v Speaker 2>Another book also was taken from his cell, a story

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<v Speaker 2>by Zane Gray. Nearly one hundred men, women and boys

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01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:38.439
<v Speaker 2>stood in the street in front of the jail when

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01:10:38.439 --> 01:10:43.000
<v Speaker 2>the automobile carrying the prisoner, his guards and priests arrived

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01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:46.359
<v Speaker 2>from the prison. They had been gathering since as early

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01:10:46.439 --> 01:10:50.600
<v Speaker 2>as four thirty o'clock. They surged forward and stared at

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01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:54.039
<v Speaker 2>the condemned man, but he looked straight ahead and marched

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01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:57.600
<v Speaker 2>to the jail door. And the crowd was one party,

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01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:01.880
<v Speaker 2>evidently made up of tourists, which included two or three women.

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01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:06.760
<v Speaker 2>The crowd stayed, although only the twenty legal witnesses were

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01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:09.920
<v Speaker 2>allowed to pass through the gates, until the word was

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01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:14.000
<v Speaker 2>passed outside that Blancet was dead, and not until then

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01:11:14.119 --> 01:11:18.199
<v Speaker 2>did they begin breaking up. His trial began in the

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01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:22.359
<v Speaker 2>district court on April thirteenth, nineteen seventeen, and on April

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01:11:22.359 --> 01:11:25.800
<v Speaker 2>twenty fourth, the jury found glance At guilty of murder

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01:11:25.800 --> 01:11:28.960
<v Speaker 2>in the first degree. That was only the beginning of

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01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:32.800
<v Speaker 2>the long legal battle, during which the case was carried

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01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:35.720
<v Speaker 2>first to the Supreme Court of the state and then

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01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:39.119
<v Speaker 2>to the Supreme Court of the United States, and which

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01:11:39.239 --> 01:11:42.760
<v Speaker 2>ended only two months ago when the Federal Supreme Court

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01:11:43.119 --> 01:11:48.199
<v Speaker 2>denied Blancet's appeal. Before the trial, he gave no explanation

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01:11:48.319 --> 01:11:52.640
<v Speaker 2>of the death of Armour, maintaining absolute silence until he

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01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:56.399
<v Speaker 2>went to the stand in the legal fight for his life.

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01:11:56.560 --> 01:12:00.359
<v Speaker 2>At one time before the trial, Roy Armour brought of

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01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:04.640
<v Speaker 2>Clyde saw him in the prison hospital. He was still

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01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:09.399
<v Speaker 2>suffering from the self inflicted wound. Leaning over the cot,

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01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:14.600
<v Speaker 2>Roy said, I'm Clyde Armer's brother. Blancet is reported to

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01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:17.439
<v Speaker 2>have answered, I do not know you, and I never

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01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:22.600
<v Speaker 2>saw Clyde armor. The trial was unquestionably the most sensational

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01:12:22.680 --> 01:12:26.399
<v Speaker 2>ever held in Santa Fe. There was standing room only

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01:12:26.479 --> 01:12:30.039
<v Speaker 2>in the courtroom. In little of that women brought their

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01:12:30.119 --> 01:12:34.439
<v Speaker 2>sewing and remained from morning until night. Some spectators brought

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01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:37.479
<v Speaker 2>their lunch and stayed in the courtroom during the recess

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01:12:37.880 --> 01:12:40.119
<v Speaker 2>so that they would be sure to have seats at

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01:12:40.159 --> 01:12:51.520
<v Speaker 2>the following session. Albert W. Blancett answered the state's demand

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01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:54.720
<v Speaker 2>of a life for a life in the yard behind

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01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:59.800
<v Speaker 2>the jail. This morning, at five twenty two o'clock. He

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01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.800
<v Speaker 2>went to his death as a man would go to breakfast.

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01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:07.399
<v Speaker 2>He gave no sign of mental stress, and ascended the

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<v Speaker 2>steps to the scaffold unaided except that Father Henry le Guillion,

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01:13:12.840 --> 01:13:16.760
<v Speaker 2>the prison chaplain, and his confessor, who walked beside him,

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01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:21.640
<v Speaker 2>laid his hand lightly on his arm on the scaffold.

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<v Speaker 2>They knelt in prayer, the priest and the prisoner. They

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01:13:25.720 --> 01:13:29.079
<v Speaker 2>remained kneeling a few minutes, and the priest then embraced

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01:13:29.119 --> 01:13:34.159
<v Speaker 2>the prisoner. As blance hat arose, Sheriff George w. Armijo

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01:13:34.800 --> 01:13:37.840
<v Speaker 2>asked him if he had any statement to make. He

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01:13:37.920 --> 01:13:41.520
<v Speaker 2>stood with his shoulders thrown back and faced squarely the

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01:13:41.560 --> 01:13:47.960
<v Speaker 2>witnesses gathered below. He spoke slowly and clearly. I have

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01:13:48.119 --> 01:13:53.680
<v Speaker 2>nothing to say, he said, enunciating each word distinctly, and

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01:13:53.800 --> 01:13:56.600
<v Speaker 2>turned toward the deputy sheriffs, as if to say he

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01:13:56.720 --> 01:14:00.840
<v Speaker 2>was ready. When they were Deputy Warden P. Dugan of

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01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:04.359
<v Speaker 2>the penitentiary, sprang up the steps and grasped his hand.

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<v Speaker 2>He spoke a few low words and descended. The canvas.

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<v Speaker 2>Curtain then dropped, and the scaffold was hidden from the witnesses.

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<v Speaker 2>The trap was sprung at five twenty two o'clock, shortly

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01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:22.319
<v Speaker 2>after sunrise, and ten minutes later doctor E. W. Fisk,

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01:14:22.640 --> 01:14:28.600
<v Speaker 2>prison physician, and doctor David Knapp, County physician, pronounced him dead.

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01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:33.159
<v Speaker 2>The drop apparently failed to break his neck, although no

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01:14:33.279 --> 01:14:38.079
<v Speaker 2>examination was made, but the prisoner was unconscious and death

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01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:42.000
<v Speaker 2>was painless. The snapping of the heavy knot of the

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01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:46.359
<v Speaker 2>noose against his head behind the ear produced unconsciousness at

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01:14:46.359 --> 01:15:08.680
<v Speaker 2>the instant of the drop, and he knew nothing after that.

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<v Speaker 2>That was mystery tour in a Buick eight, The Vanishing

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<v Speaker 2>of Clyde Armour, called from the historic pages of the

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<v Speaker 2>Santa Fe New Mexican and other newspapers of the era.

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<v Speaker 2>True Crime Historian is a creation of popular media and

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<v Speaker 2>And as for me, while the truth is out there,

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<v Speaker 2>he admitted drinking, gambling, joy riding in a fast life.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones signing off for now,

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<v Speaker 2>All Dy