The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-11-11
THE wICKENBURG HORROR
Murder and Robbery on the Highway
Were they Indians or Mezicans?

wore tney lndlanS or MeZ1CanB?
 The mail due at this place on Monday, arrived early In the afternoon Of Tuesday, bringing the par,lculars, SO far as known Of one of the blood. lest deeds ever committed in Arizona. At an ear. ly hour on Sunday morning, the 9th inst, the mail stage on the route from Wickenburg tO Eh. renherg left the former place with the driver, John Lang, and the following named y2sstHgers Frederick Shohom, Frederick W Loring, F. NJ Hamel, W. c. Salmon, C. :. Adams, Vim. Kruger and Miss sheppard. At d point about niue miles rom Wickenburg party of mounted men
 ETHER INDIANS OR MExIcAS BANDITS Disguised after the fashion Of Apache warriors rushed down upon the stage t was passing through canyon, and fired a yollcy Into the pas. sengers, killing all bus two persons and slightly voundng these. The wounded-Mr Kruger md Miss sheppard-no being disabled, immediately sprang from the stage, which wa. now brought to halt, and started together toward Culling's Station. While one detachment Of ihs blood. thirsty demons surrounded the stage, tue balance went iu pursuit Of
 THE FU0ITivEs,
 And kept up desultory hre but being all 1 y, slight wound received by Miss Sheppard, neither sustained further injury than the wounds inflicted by the fret fire. This pursuit was kept up for distance ot nearly half milc-,he pursuers be. ing, meanwhile, kept al bay by Mir. Kruger, who still retained his revolver, and fired upon them whenever they drew too near, causing thsm Co scatter and retreat, but only to rally again lo the pursuit until finally they withdrew aud Joined their fellows The fugtiyes continued ou their way toward Cuttings Wells until they hailed the eastWard-bound mail a few miles from tha. station. Here they were picked up by the driver who retracsd hIs steps to thc station, from which ] point information of thc calamity was sent 10 l Wlckcuburg r7I the Nulture miuv-lhe bearer fearing 10 proceed by the direct route. The des- patch reached Wickenburg aboa. midnight sbeu ! two parties Ot citizens
 sThRTED FOR THE scEEE, ! One 10 bring in :ae dead and the other under command Oi Geo Munroc, to take the trail oi the mErdcrers. Upon reaching the stage most hor- riblc picture presented to their sight siI men--Messrs. Loring shoholm. HsnE, Hamel, Adams and Salmon, Sho, eighteen bogrs pfeYi. ous, let Wickeuhurg, full of lie and hope and in the happy anticipation of soon again greet lug tbeir friends, aaer prolonged absenoe-lsy side by side rigid in death and drcnched In blood --tbe uuayenged victims Of a murder A. dark and &s dsmnable ever stained ,hs hands Of an asGs. sin.
 THE MYSTERY
 Which surrounds the Identity Of the murderer. eIisIs in the disposition which made of the na.il and bsggAgr One mall .ack Aas cut opcr and It's contents scattered over ihe ground; ih, 0tLer ~as left untouched. The baggage Of th, passaHgers was broken open, and Wblle article, Of but Htile value were carried away, large sum' Of money and other yAluablcs remained Al this would suggest the work of ignorant sayages but as neitbcr tbe arms, ammunition nor animals had beca removed, some are inclined 10 the opin z lon that the outrage was pcrpetraied by band O Mexican bAadiis from sonora. MT, Kruger wh,
 has really had the beat opportunity Of decidiu. this question, states positively that they were In eaus But, al all events the next mall may briui reports which wi,l place the gull. Of ths ierr,b crime where k properly belongs when we hop it will mol be len to the local authorities Of Ar IonA to redress the wrong, or, rAiber, 10 sVeng an outrage asalnss this Government and peopl stlarge.
 THE yIcTNs-wHo THEY WERE. FrederIck w. Lcrlng VA. 9 years Of age sud
 native of Boston. He graduated from HarvAr
 In 1870 and immediately engaged In tEe busines r Of journalism, in Boston. Early in the preser ,. year he joined the Wheeler Expedition which b A accompanied throughout all ts rambles, arrlyin e here two weeks ago, on his way home, Althoug l. A boy in years Mir Loring was a mature man A mind whose name had become familiar to almo' 3. every reader, a. author and contributor " C h rare merit.
 B. Messrs Hamel and Salmon were likewise meu !. bcrs Of lhe Wheeler Expedition. Both geutl
 men were residents Of san Francisco, where q
 latter leaves a wife and two small children vi
 were entirely dependent upon his labor for SUI port
 ', Mir. shoholn was returning to his home in Phl |. adelphla after An absence Of many years, part ., which time he was a member ofihe Arm ofJewc i, ,S Co, of this town
 C. g. Adam. leaves 6 wife and three small cbl
 drsn in San Fsanei--e Fer .hr !=-: :cs. siouii ., he bad charge of the flour depot of W. Bicbal
 & Co, at thls place, and was on his way to jo
 his family in San Francisco,
 The driver, John Lang, was recently from Ca
 fornia, had obtained situation as driver le
 days before, and was making hls first trip fro ; Wiekenburg.
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