The Archive · 1928

MINER'S DESPERATE FIGHT Successful End of Determined Effort to Avoid Execution

Mexico City, Jan. 9.

Maddened by consistent raltreatment since bandits captured him fon December 17 and overhearing his captors arranging to execute him tommorrow, Lyman Barber, an American mining engineer, suddeniy'selzed his only available weapons tones and. broken bottles—and ferociously attacked and killed his four guards, and. then endured a night of horror stumbling painfully until he reached a village at daybreak. "Here he obtained conv tance and returned t0 his home in Mexico City, where his pale, anxious-eyed wife herself answered the bell, to fall into the arma of the gaunt and ragged spectre, who then Collapsed and was put to bed. His arly recovery, however, {8 promis. ed.—Reuter.

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