The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-13
LETTER FROM JUDGE TWEED.
Details of the Blue Water Massacre.
TucsoN. ARIZONA,
 December 2S. 1871.


 December 2S, 1871. To he EIitors or the Ari5Ona Miner:
 Marshal Dickson, my daughter and my self arrived at this place safely on Tuesday, the 2Gth, at about o'clock P. M. On Christ mas day we arrived at Blue Water Station, where Baker and his family were murdered, OF the 2lst As many of your readers are familiar with the locality, and some of them have probably known the family, I will tell you the story of the tragedy 50 far as have been able to learn the facts:
 We reached Blue Water Station little after noon, and saw the evidences of the bloody deeds done so shortly before our arri- val It seems that Baker had in his employ three Mexicans, engaged in cutting hay. They had been with him but a few days-perhaps a wcek-and these men were doubtless the murlerers. Baker had accumulated some property, and was supposed to have some mOney-perhaps few hundred dollars-and the murders were no doubt committed for this pittance and two horses, which they took | arrived at the station, but the bloody record of the deed was there to tell the manner in which it was done. Baker was first killed. He was evidently in the act of measuring and dealing out rations to the men--they no doubt planned to have him so occupied wien they arranged among themselves for the as Sault. He was shot in the neck and through the body, apparently by common revolver, and fell near the -a~.r~,roo "a" IUv,n -,h,.r It is supposed Mrs. Baker was engaged at her work. It is supposed that, hearing the shots fired at her husband, she ran to the door, and was there met by the assassins. She was shot in the breast, with what appeared to he three buck shots and two pistol bullets She must have struggled hard for her life; she evidently caught hold of the pistol as it was discharged, for her hand was shot through in the loose flesh between the thumb and fore finger, the hand backened with powder and the sleeve of her dress set on fire. They had bright, gentle boy, six or seven years of age, and the miscreants killed him, l also He was sEot through the body, and ' the little fellow ran from where he was shot. | Supposed to be near where his mother felD. i and stood himself up against the wall for support, where the bloody marks of his lt- tie hands were plainly visible His little boots, which l saw, were covered at the in. step with blood which had dripped from the ol ha Marshal Dckason, and Mr. Frances, of Tue son, who were with me, both had seen the . child in his lifetime, and speak of him as a most promising child.
 There was babe, about three months old . It too was dead, lying by its mothers side ! There were no wounds upon it; heavy fall of rain came on the night after the murder | and before the deed was discovered, and the . bale m doubt perished from exposure and | want ot nourishmcnt.
 "aNer Is spoken of as q hard working, in ""S'''""s man, and his wife. as an excellent ""'''a"' She came from Indiana. about fifteen '> >,"oe' to jnin her husband. They all ''' |.', o'' ''''--"aseand and wife and their two "''''''"-'n one grave. by the ro,d,iae near ''s mouse where they were mur,ler.d e-. lhe muEdersTs.are said ,o L.. O's plA'e alter tisss commission of ,h.;, crimes, and there are par,ie. In , ' 'a'', ttem' but fear, with lii,lc pro.,..r, .s o' turing them this side of the seapra rna passed the Mission Station year,
 lay or two afler tue massacre a, sf.s.s- and oa my last trip from Ehrvuber< sa p,.- colt, took the stage at the ,ouner r.aee ,.n wlI.ch LoEiag ani five others Aad lost their lives few days bcforc. a, ..,iut directly on m, roate; and when ard. at Ssca,op. of sh Blue Water horT .-, began "a speculate
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