De Cuellar, Prio to A true copy. JOSÉ T. DE CUELLAR, Prio, October 10, 1881

* * * It is a well-known fact that in the southeastern part of this county there is a hand of desperadoes variously estimated at from fifty to one hundred men, whose crimes have deserved the severest penalties, and yet we hear of no effort for their capture. It is true their depredations have been committed principally upon citizens of our sister republic, but that is no reason why they should go unpunished.

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News was brought to town yesterday of further depredations by a party of five men, who are supposed to belong to the gang of outlaws infesting this county calling themselves “Rustlers.” They are principally from Western Texas and Lincoln Co., New Mexico, from whence they have been driven by an outraged community, and now seem to have found the place they long have sought, where they can commit their depredations without fear of arrest. For a long time this gang have committed crimes and confined themselves and their operations to the east of Tombstone, and along the line of Sonora, but seeing that no steps were taken for their arrest they have become emboldened to take up their haunts and perpetrate their depredations nearer the center of business and population.

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