New Mexico’s Mes Gang came to a bloody end in August 1875. They’d been rustling cattle from John Chisum (and may have killed a man). Outlaw Jessie Evans (pictured) and some of his pals trailed the gang into Mexico and took four of them into custody.
As they took the rustlers back to Lincoln County, supposedly, some armed men took the four suspects and shot them outs

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