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B.L. LEWIS INFORMED
SHERIFF ABOUT PAIR
Doubt among some as to who informed the sheriff's office in Dalhart
of the whereabouts of Orrell and Lon Dellinger Saturday have been
dispelled by statements of Mrs. George W. Alexander, widow of the slain
peace officer and newly-appointed shriff, and other officials.
Mrs. Alexander states B.L. Lewis, of Amistad, New Mexico, and
brotherin-law of Orrell and Lon, told her husband where the boys could
be found.
This statement was borne out completely by an officer yesterday
afternoon who said Lewis stated to him that he had told the sheriff several
days previous to Saturday, that the Dellinger boys were at the Gunnells
place.
He said he (Lewis) learned the boys were figuring on leaving
the country Saturday and he came to town to see if the sheriff had seen
them yet. Lewis is said to have further told the officer that Alexander
told him he had been unable to find the boys at the Gunnells place and
that he (Lewis) had gone out there Saturday morning to see if they were
still gone or come back. He found them there, it is said, and returned
to town to tell the sheriff, according to what the officer says Lewis told
im.
The officer said Lewis mentioned something about one of the boys
owing him $100 for a fine.
The Dalhart Texan, Friday, July 25, 1930
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FOUR DELLINGER BROTHERS PAYING HEAVY
PRICE OF CRIME-TWO ARE DEAD, ONE IN
JAIL, ANOTHER SERVING LONG TERM IN PEN
Each with some sort of a criminal record, four Dellinger brothers
are learning the price of crime. Two of them are dead. One is in the penitentiary
for a term of 25 years and another is in the county jail, awaiting trial
on a liquor charge.
Lon was almost instantly killed early Saturday afternoon in a
pitched gun battle with Dallam county officers. Orrell was so critically
wounded that he died in Loretto hospital a few hours later. Ode was placed
in jail several months ago under a heavy bond and Bert is in the state
penitentiary at Huntsville .
Bert was captured in the hills near Las Vegas, New Mexico, in
the early summer of 1929 after a sensational chase by officers of two states.
He was returned to Dalhart charged and tried for kidnaping, under the Ferguson
Mask law, and sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary. For months he
stayed in the jail at Wichita Falls, Texas, and only a few weeks ago was
sent to Huntsville when his case was finally confirmed by the Criminal
Court of Appeals .
Orrell Dellinger, Bill Cullender and Bert were all charged with
the kidnaping of Adolf Esquibel, Rock Island employe, and supposed to have
been the state's star witness in a liquor case in which it is alleged the
two Dellingers and Cullender were implicated.
The story is that the men entered the Mexican's home one night
masked and spirited him away to the mountains near Las Vegas. He escaped
in some unknown manner, made his way to Las Vegas and notified oficers
in Dalhart of his whereabouts. Esquibel was severely beaten.
The Dalhart Texan
