3 Amigos
Genealogy information: Taken from Ancestry.com
1) Eleuterio Corral was born 8 Oct 1905 in Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico to Refuglo Capeda & Marcelina Corral.
Carlsbad Current-Argus
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Fri, Jan 20, 1922 · Page 1
The Deming Headlight
Deming, New Mexico
Tue, Jan 17, 1922 · Page 4
The Spanish American
Roy, New Mexico
Sat, Feb 11, 1922 · Page 7
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El Paso Times
El Paso, Texas
Sat, Jan 21, 1922 · Page 2
2) Rumaldo Lozano was born in 1900 in Casas Grandes state of Chiu. He came to America when he was just 14 years old.
3) Jesus Rocha was born abt 1899 in Cludad Jurarez Mexico, his mother was Encarncion Rallos
Here are some newspaper articles:
Three males were being held in the Grant County Jail in New Mexico for various crimes. Eleuterio Corral, Rumaldo Lozano and Jesus Rocha. Corral & Lazono shared a cell.
On the 2nd of April 1921 Eleuterio & Rumaldo early morning they loosened some bricks in the wall of their cell and climbed through a fan light into the corridor , while the jailer Ventura Bencoma was asleep as he was sick with the flu. There was a cell next to them that was used for firewood & coal and an axe. Corral grabbed the axe bludgeoned Ventura and they grabbed the keys and his gun. They tried to free Jesus Rocha but they could not get the lock to his cell to release, so they left him. They had threatened the other jail inmates to be quiet or they would shoot them, including a women who was locked up. But as soon as the fugitives ran out the door the inmates started yelling and screaming for Sheriff Casey who lived above the jail.
Sheriff Casey runs into the jail to asses the situation and then gather a posse to go after the escaped inmates. After a couple days on the run the sheriff and the posse catch up to the boys and after a brief gunfight they are captured and returned to the jail.
Corral starts bragging about their escape and how Rocha was suppose to join them and that the whole plan was Rocha’s idea.
Their families bagged the court for mercy saying their boys were too young to die, Eleuterio being 16 at the time of his hanging and Rumaldo being 22. The authorities didn't believe the ages of the boys and had a doctor examine them and he said they were older than they appear. According to my research they were wrong.
They were all 3 charged with murder, this case went to the Supreme Court.
Jesus Rocha got lucky on his outcome but the other two got death sentences and were hung 20 Jan 1922 in Silver City, NM and were buried in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Silver City, NM.
Jesus was again in the New Mexico State Prison as inmate #1372 on 18 Aug 1922
Jesus Rocha was released and again he found himself in prison on 2 Dec 1925 for Larceny as inmate #5561
I believe these articles are about him
I did not find a death date or place for Jesus but I think he might be one Jesus V. Rocha who died in 1993 here is the index I found on Ancestry. I am not 100% sure as there are many with his first and last name in New Mexico & Arizona.
Name
Jesus V Rocha
Birth
1 Jan 1902
Death
20 Dec 1993
There is a book that has the hanging details and trial details
called Death On The Gallows, I posted a photo below.
Here are two websites with little information on their hangings
All the newspaper articles are from Newspapers.com and all the prison records and genealogy information was taken from Ancestry.com.
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