Arizona citizen., 1874-08-01

in few moments went out again and said to Hall: "Hallo, Bill, what are you doing here?' He said he was following two MeXicans who had stolen one horse at Salt river and one from Mr. Stiles at the Gila. About that time, MT. Paige arrived at the station in buggy from Florence. MT. Moore asked Paige if he had passed two men-MeXicans-On the road on horseback. MT. Paige said; Yes, I passed two about eight miles back on the road, one riding bay horse and the other gray horse. About half an hour afterwards some one said there were two men on horseback coming to- wards the station from tlre Picacho. Moore and Hall made preparations to go out and meet the men. .Mr. Paige, Mir. Laberee, MT. Herrick and myself told them they had better remain at the sta tion and when the men came up we would help arrest them. Moore said: No, we'll go out as they do not go up to any stations" Moore and Hall then left in the direction the men were com ing. A short time afterwards, while was in the house, some one outside said: "There has been two shots fired" went out upon the roof of the stable. 1 there saw two men riding rapidly in the brush off from the road and saw the smoke of two shots. In about half an hour from the time they-Moore and Hall-went out, they returned to the station leading two horses. Just at this time we all went to breakfast. While we were at the table, Moore and Hall came into the dining-room. Some one at the table asked them if they had got the horses. They said ives They were again asked if they had taken any prison CTS. They said "No, they escaped" After all got through breakfast, Moore and Hall sat down anG ate, and then Moore left for Florence. 1 heard Hall say to MT. Paige there were two men lying out there drunk-One man near the road the other off in the brush. MT. Paige, a man at the station and myself then sad died up horses and went about a mile from the station and fOund a dead mar. There were several ball wounds in his head. 1 think the man had not been dead over an hour, as the boGy was not stiff. MT. Paige got down and looked at the body and said there were five wounds in the head and that the body was not stiff. I recognize the black hat shown ne as the one we saw near the body. It had holes in it made by shot or bullets. We all then started in southwesterly direction,
 
 another dead body of man lying on his face. MT. Paige got off his horse and eX amined the body and found a large wound in the head, back of the ear, and another in the back. He then turned the body over to see if he knew the man. He said he did not recognize him, and we Il then returned to the station. l got off my horse with Mr. Paige. The appearances were that the man had been dead about the same length of tine as the body we found by the road. After we returned to the station, l heard MT. Paige and Mr. LAberee tell Hall that he must go to Tue son and report that he had killed two horse thieves who had stolen his horses. Soon afterwards, I saw Hall leave in the direction of Tucson on horseback In short time Mir I.aberee and Mir. Paige said they would go to Tucson and report what had been done. They started and I went with them. We tracked Hall until within about two miles of the Smile Water Hole, where the tracks left the road and went towards the hills. The man Hall l saw at the courthouse yestcr- day, is the same Hall I saw at Desert sta tation in company with Moore and who went out after the horse thieves. The dead men were MeXicans. l have seen the man, lying by the road, in Phenix, but l do not know his name, nor the name of the other ore in the brush. I think the man by the road was about 25 or % years Of age and the other about Is or l9 years. We saw no firearms nor weapons of any kind on the dead men,
 c. A. Paige was sworn and testified: l have heard read the evidence of C. H. Llberee, J. A. Ruis, Julius Bauerlein and w. H. Carter, and the same is true in substance of my own Knowledge. The man Moore whom 1 saw at Desert station at the time of the shooting, is the same Moore described in the evidence of LaLer- cc I also know he is the same man who left ;his small boy at the residence of W. s. Oury to attend school and also loaned a large bay mare to MT. Oury which he Oury-has still in his possession. MT. Van Afstine has told me that his name is Vincent Moore. After Mir. Moore re- turned to the station after the shooting, he said to me in sHbstance-That is d very good gun of yours but it shoots too high.
 Upon the foregoing testimony, the jury found and signed this verdict:
 The namesof the deceased persons are to the jury unknown; that they came to their death on the 24th day of July, 1874, near Desert station in the county of Pima by gunShOt wounds received from weapons in the hands of Vincent Moore and one Wilson, alias WilkerSon. alias William F. Hall, which said weapons were fired and discharged by the said Vincent Moore and William r. Hall at tine said deceased, whose fn vii I,